Nadezhda Surova, head of the "Artificial Intelligence" project at the National Technological Initiative, has explained which areas in IT industry are popular among the younger generation and which countries are interested in Russian education. Sputnik: What areas in the digital economy do schoolchildren and students choose? Nadezhda Surova: We realize that the main priority now is data management – Big Data – and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The country which will become the first in creating a platform-based solution with the use of data will achieve technological superiority. Our students understand this, that is why specialties involved in Data Science are most in demand now in all areas of digital economy – IT, humanities etc.