In a declaration after their summit, Russia and African countries called it important for SI developers to obey the laws of the countries where they operate, and to support the continent's languages
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Russia and African countries set out shared approaches to SI in a declaration: local law, non-discriminatory standards, languages and skills.
According to the RIA Novosti page description and Prime, the joint declaration on cooperation in digital technologies and innovation, agreed after the Russia–Africa summit, speaks of the importance of developers and providers of SI complying with the laws of the countries where their technologies are used, and of working out non-discriminatory approaches to standards and risk management in SI; Prime also cites a provision on non-discriminatory and equal access of states to the resources for SI, namely data, computing capacity and components. Russia's Foreign Ministry reported the agreement of the declaration on October 28. According to RIA Novosti, the parties expressed concern about the use of SI to create fakes and agreed to cooperate in training specialists. The same day, at a summit session, "The Dimensions of SI: Opportunities and Challenges for Africa and Russia," participants spoke about sovereign infrastructure for big data, localization of data and languages, cybersecurity and training specialists, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.