Andrey Filatov: Digital State: New Business Models Brought by Total Digitalization

The article analyzes the problems of housing and communal services in the Russian Federation in terms of private investments, without which further development of the industry is impossible. International experience is briefly covered, the stages of development of municipal services in modern Russia are given, issues on the way of private investments are revealed, and ways for their resolution are offered.

Global human development, which can be measured as a combination of the world’s education, health and living standards, could decline this year for the first time since the concept was introduced in 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warned today. UNDP experts have prepared a document on the current impact of COVID-19 on human development and proposed a Framework for the immediate socioeconomic response.

Eugene Kaspersky, cybercrime expert and General Director of Kaspersky Lab, on the most important phenomenon of Industrial Revolution 4.0, the ‘sovereign internet’ and transparency centres.

The paper describes long-term global systemic risks that affect the environment, the economy and society. The review also provides practical advice for investors for converting systemic risks into development models. There are six main global systemic risks: climate change, water security, geopolitics, technological evolution, demographic shifts, low and negative real long-term interest rates.