However, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media opposed the FAS initiative to extend competition regulation to developers.
World Congress was on information technology (WCIT) held in different countries since 1978, the Alliance for information technologies and services (WITSA). The first Congress of the WCIT was held in Barcelona, and then every two years was held in such cities as San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Washington, London, Amsterdam, Montreal, Kuala Lumpur and others. This year the Congress took place in Yerevan — thus, the capital of Armenia became the first city in the former Soviet Union, to have adopted this international event. The event was attended by representatives of OECD, Intel, IBM, Reddit, SAP, VMware, Yandex, Picsart and other organizations and companies. Developments in digital technologies for urban infrastructure was introduced, and by the government of Moscow.
