Earlier this week, on the eve of the Eastern Economic Forum, the Skolkovo Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s IoT Acceleration Consortium. The agreement followed talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in Russia’s Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok.
The IoT Acceleration Consortium aims to foster the development of technologies related to the Internet of Things, Big Data and artificial intelligence.
Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, opened a Far East branch in Vladivostok in 2015. It is located on the campus of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU).
During last year’s edition of the Eastern Economic Forum, the Skolkovo Foundation and FEFU launched a joint project: the Russky Technopark. In the last year, nearly 60 startups have become residents of the technopark, which for now concentrates more on the range of services it offers than physical infrastructure, as reported by the Skolkovo Foundation.
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