04/16/2025 – 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM GMT-3
This webinar will offer the opportunity to debate how members of the BRICS grouping are addressing their digital transformation and what type of strategies and policies are they enacting in order to promote meaningful connectivity.
The webinar is organized by the Center for Technology and Society at FGV Law School Rio in partnership with Cetic – NIC.br, the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Brazilian Ministry of Communications.
details about the webinar
The webinar has a threefold structure, with a first segment dedicated to the presentation of recent research, the second featuring short interventions by representatives of the BRICS members, and the final one dedicated to a participatory debate with Q&A.
→ Opening
Marcelo Salomão Martinez, Head of the Division for Digital Issues, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
→ Introductory Remarks
Luca Belli, CTS-FGV Coordinator, CyberBRICS Director
→ Setting the scene
Daniel Cavalcanti, General Coordinator for Public Policies, Brazilian Ministry for Communications
Graziela Castello, Sectoral Studies Coordinator, Cetic.br
Smriti Parsheera, CyberBRICS Associated Researcher, Center for Technology and Society at FGV
→ BRICS Multistakeholder Roundtable
Sonia Jorge, Director, Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (GDIP)
Abhishek Shukla, Asstt. Director General, Indian Ministry of Communications
Dr. Riham Moawad, Digital Transformation Strategies Advisor to the Ministry of CIT, Egypt
Dr. Hedaia Abd El Gaffar, Director of the Economic Affairs and International Indicators Department, Egypt Ekaterina Martynova, Lecturer, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Ibrahim Mamma Hussein, Digital Impact Alliance, Ethiopia
Yu Tong, Professor of Department of Data Science and Engineering Management, School of Management, Zhejiang University
Wei Li, Deputy Director of Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute in China Academy of ICT
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