Valdai Club

Information telecommunications technologies (IT) have emerged as an everyday human tool in the modern world. They are also an important means to develop the state and society. In other words, whoever has a grip on advanced IT has a grip on the world. There is no doubt that the advancement of IT is accompanied with a fast growth of artificial intelligence (AI), which has also become part of our everyday life. The African countries are not staying on the sidelines in this regard and are rapidly adapting their economies to new realities, including IT and AI.

Bound by a common destiny on issues of instability, security, the threat of terrorism, economic backwardness, etc., the Republics of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger decided to unite primarily because they were faced with the threat of ECOWAS military intervention in Niger, and also because it was necessary to act against these evils.