The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation is a federal agency under the executive branch responsible for drafting and implementing national policy and legal regulation in:
information technology, including the creation of government information resources and the promotion of access to such resources
telecommunications, including the allocation of and conversion of the radio frequency spectrum, and postal communications
mass communications and the media, including the electronic media, the development of the Internet, television and radio broadcasting, and related technology
publishing and printing
personal data processing.
The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media administers the national postal system, and national and international telecommunications networks.
The Ministry coordinates and controls activities of the Federal Service for Supervision of Telecom and Mass Communications, the Federal Agency for Information Technologies, the Federal Communications Agency, the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications.
Nikolay Nikiforov is the Head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media is of the Russian Federation.
A non-commercial partnership “National payment Council” (NP “NPC”) is a universal cross-platform for discussing approaches and development of the national payment system participants’ consolidated position in Russia. The aim of NP “NPC” is bringing together efforts of the Russian national payment system participants to ensure its stability and effectiveness of institutional and infrastructure components, consolidation of the market players’ positions regarding development, accumulation and expansion of the best practices, development and promotion of cutting-edge technologies in the Russian market.
The founders of NP “NPC” are Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, Deutsche Bank, Promsvyazbank, VimpelCom, CJSC “Zolotaya Korona” and “Unistream”. Among the members are Veb, Citibank, Otkritie Bank, NOMOS-BANK, HOME CREDIT and FINANCE BANK, ZENIT Bank, Cyberplat, Western Union, Leader, UCS, Russian Standard Bank, Nordea Bank, EVROFINANCE MOSNARBANK, UNIASTRUMBANK, SMARTBANK, RSPP and ARB. Agreements on cooperation have been signed with ROSSWIFT, AODH, RATEK and NAUMIR.
NP “NPC” cooperates with the Bank of Russia on ongoing basis.
The Supervisory Board of the NP “NPC” also comprises of representatives of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, Federal financial monitoring service, the Federation Council, Ministry of communications, Federal service on customers' rights protection and human well-being surveillance, DIA, RSPP and ARB. The President of NP “NPC” is Andrei Yemelin.
Russian E-Money Association was established in 2009. We represent the leading companies and associations working in the e-money sector. Main goal of the Russian EMA is the evolution of the e-money market as an easily accessible service for the public, state and the representatives of the sector. Development of regulation, enhancement of cooperation among the market participants as well as with regulators, popularization of the e-money services, making the market even more transparent and elaboration of the best practices are the main ways to achieve that objective.
The creation the Russian E-Money Association was initiated by i-Free, WebMoney, Yandex.Money, payment service QIWI and national associations: Russian Microfinance Center and E-Commerce Association.
GlobalPlatform identifies, develops and publishes specifications which facilitate the secure and interoperable deployment and management of multiple embedded applications on secure chip technology. Its proven technical specifications are regarded as the international industry standard for building a trusted end-to-end solution which serves multiple actors and supports several business models. The freely available specifications provide the foundation for market convergence and innovative new cross-sector partnerships. The technology has been adopted globally across finance, mobile/telecom, government, healthcare, retail and transit sectors. GlobalPlatform is a member driven association with cross-industry representation from all world continents. Its members contribute to technical committees and market-led task forces. www.globalplatform.org
Association of Regional Banks of Russia (Association “Russia”) was established on December, 13 1990. Unites 400 banks.
The priority of the Association in the medium term is to promote:
· Ensuring of Russian banking system systemic stability;
· Improving of legal environment, including banking legislation development and the creation of other conditions that will provide opportunities for effective business practices and more efficient protection of creditors’ rights;
· Expansion of territorial and social accessibility of financial services to the public;
· Development of modern financial infrastructure, laying the basis for creating of an international financial center in Russia;
· Increasing competitiveness of Russian banking sector and development of effective competition in bank services market;
· Corporate governance quality improving and risk management in credit institutions.
(From the Core Activities of the Association "Russia", adopted at the XXVI Annual Meeting of the Association on May 20, 2011)
The NFC Forum is a non-profit industry association founded in 2004 by leading mobile communications, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Its mission is to advance the use of NFC technology by developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and services, and educating the market about NFC. The Forum’s 160+ global members are developing specifications for a modular NFC device architecture, and protocols for interoperable data exchange and device-independent service delivery, device discovery and capability.
About RISSPA
RISSPA (Russian Information Systems Security Professional Association) was founded in June 2006 under the patronage of (ISC)2.
Main objectives of RISSPA are development of Russian information security professional community, embracing experience and ideas sharing, spreading information security knowledge and increasing the level of professional skills for RISSPA members through webinars and offline seminars.
The Association provides the opportunity of participation in professional seminars for its members, for which CPE (Continued Professional Education Points) can be claimed, valuable to the holders of the (ISC)2 and other international organizations' certifications as confirmation of ongoing education.
RISSPA is a nonprofit Association and membership is free of charge.
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