The Institute of Contemporary Development hosted an expert discussion devoted to a virtual launch of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. The corresponding document drafted as a result of the meeting will make part of a draft law to be submitted to the State Duma for a second reading.

The discussion was attended by the State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Stanislav Naumov; Chairman of the Information Policy and Information Technologies Subcommittee Ilya Ponomaryov, Head of the Skolkovo project working group Oleg Alekseev and a number of other experts and officials.

The experts focused on the ways to ensure a virtual launch of the Skolkovo Innovation Center prior to the completion of the infrastructure development. Apart from that, the experts suggested a number of articles to be added to the draft law on the Skolkovo project.