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  • E-goverment in Russia: efforts pay off, but problems persist

    Do you remember I've concluded yesterday's broadcast by mentioning, yet again, the e-government initiative. It's been a buzzword for years but it appears that it's only finally really kicking off this year. After all, the deadlines are coming - people will now have a legal right to convenient governmental services, how about that. The digitization program was also mentioned on the RIF+KIB conference, of course, with public officials highlighting achievements and plans and experts giving their opinion on how to make the Russian cyberspace a better, safer and a more efficient and orderly place. Deputy head of the Communications and Press Ministry Ilya Massukh admitted that the e-government initiative, the G2C part, the ones citizens actually see and use, and the interagency cooperation system, the G2G part, the "back office" with agencies sending each other records in purely digital format - well, these projects currently eat up around 300 million rubles from the budget. It’s not wasted money, though, as e-government is attracting more citizens. As of now the unified governmental e-services portal gosuslugi.ru has over 2 million registered users who are able to file digital paperwork for 154 federal and 1200 regional and municipal services. As for the interagency cooperation – that’s basically another name for the “one-stop-shop” for governmental services. Previously citizens had to jump through hoops trying to collect paperwork to get another piece of paperwork from a governmental body – the interagency cooperation system means that if one agency has some sort of info on a citizen, it is available to other agencies directly with no more running around from the poor citizen. But of course, it's not all smooth sailing and with the immense expanses of the Motherland to consider, plugging in everyone to the unified state service portal is a hard task.

  • Russia updates e-government

    Why would lawmakers need their own social network? According to Igor Lebedev, deputy speaker of the lower house of parliament – the State Duma – currently there are two hundred forty five thousand deputies of all levels in Russia – and they are not integrated enough. According to the spokesman, the complexity of solving political issues requires professional cooperation – that’s why deputies and experts should have one platform to freely talk to each other without distractions.

    Lebedev believes that the upcoming social network for political professionals will not only allow to organize discussions between deputies and experts, but also attract lawmakers from all over Russia. This would engage regional politicians on par with centers, which could in theory streamline the legislative process. Developers are finalizing the system and moderators – yes, this social network will have moderators – will mass-invite deputies as soon as the project goes live. One of the problem spots will be municipal deputies – the lowest legislative level – of whom there are two hundred thousand people in the country.

  • Russian Passports With Digital Fingerprint Record to Begin Next Year

    Russians applying for biometric passports for foreign travel will be fingerprinted starting next year, and the prints will be added to a digital record, an order published on the government website said.

    The amendment expands authorities' list of biometric data to include prints of two fingers of the passport holder's hands, the order published Wednesday said.

  • Digital transformation: Five digital projects changing lives around the world

    01 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    The first city in Canada to develop and implement a digital strategy, Vancouver continually aims to improve the ways in which residents can access city services and information.

    “Our digital transformation initiatives across the organisation have delivered value and benefits to residents, staff, businesses and visitors,” says Jessie Adcock, City of Vancouver chief technology officer.

  • Divorce at a click: Russia brings in e-government

    Russians could soon be doing everything from registering a business to applying for a divorce online.

    ­A new bill seeks to make more public services available at the click of a button. Apart from filing in the application for divorce and marriage, Russian citizens will be able to request registration for a new organization or an individual entrepreneurship, negotiate insurance with a pension fund, or fill in a tax statement or apply for social welfare.

    Employers will be able to obtain information on the labor market; anti-monopoly organizations will accept reports on business deals.

  • E-Government is to be created in Russia by 2010

    By 2010 the RF citizens will be able to receive the main socially important state services through the internet. That is what Leonid Reiman, RF Minister of Information Technologies and Telecommunications said at a government session.

    ICT usage in government bodies’ operations makes state services handier for citizens and organizations. According to Mr. Reiman, the key index to solve the given task is the number of state services provided in the electronic form, i.e. do not require the citizens to address the government authorities in person.

  • E-government to be launched in Russia

    The RF Government has approved the project to form e-government by 2010, submitted by Leonid Reiman, the RF Minister of Information Technologies and Communication. The final version of the project and ways of its implementation are to be formulated within the coming three months. By 2010 ten most demanded public services are expected to be presented in the regime of “one window” in the electronic form.

    Leonid Reiman, the RF Minister of Information Technologies and Communication presented the Project of the e-government formation in Russia by 2010 at the RF Government session. The mentioned project was developed by the RF Ministry of Information Technologies and Communication together with the RF Ministry for Economic Development and Trade, and the RF Federal Security Service.

  • E-government: Russia sinks to bottom

    Russia has gone down 10 points in the UN rating of countries’ readiness for e-government as compared to the previous study, with Ukraine and Byelorussia skipping forward. Thus, now Russian ranks 60th among 192 countries. The Russians are a little bit better prepared for the information society, Russia is 57th out of 69 positions following the results of 2007.

    The UN experts have assessed Russia’s readiness for e-management. According to the recently published E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected Governance, the Russian Federation ranks 60th among 192 UN country members, having lost 10 points as compared to the previous survey 2005. Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are in the top-3.

  • E-Russia Program to put the Country Online

    The national IT program E-Russia 2002-2010 -- launched last September -- just passed the initial phase of implementation. It's a $2.6 billion USD comprehensive program aiming to bring the Russian Federation online.

    The federal E-Russia program addresses four areas: regulatory and legal environment, Internet infrastructure, e-government and e-education. It aims at making information and communication technologies more readily available and at ensuring that citizens have freedom of speech and ready access to information. It is expected to alleviate some of the heavy bureaucratic burden on both citizens and businesses and lead to higher efficiency in the economy and in federal and local governance.

  • E-services to boom in Russia

    The works to convert the most massive public services into e-form have been deployed in Russia. In 2008 e-services are expected to be implemented both on the federal and regional levels. In addition to a corresponding technical infrastructure administrative regulations are being developed.

    Vladimir Matyukhin, Head of the Federal Agency for Information Technologies (FAIT) states he believes 'next year will be characterized by the introduction of a sufficient number of e-services'. This will be possible due to establishing the infrastructure of public services, which is to be based on the State Information Center (SIC). According to Vladimir Matyukhin, all engineering works to establish a corresponding infrastructure have been finished. Following the results of the works held, a draft of the Government Ruling 'On the State Information Center...' was prepared, which is to be adopted in the near future, according to FAIT Head.

  • eGovernment in Russia

    Prior to the Olympics, Utah began to develop an ongoing relationship with Russia on several levels. In October 2002, Governor Leavitt headed a delegation that visited Moscow to increase trade.

  • EU and Russia complete €2 million e-government project

    A €2 million EU-funded project aiming to increase administrative efficiency and improve access to government electronic services for Russian citizens has come to an end, according to a press release from the Delegation of the European Union to Russia.

    The “Support to e-Government in the Russian Federation – Government-to-citizens electronic services” project ran for 27 months and was designed to support the government’s various initiatives to promote e-Government as a primary instrument in the reform of public administration in the Russian Federation.

  • Federal administrations in Russia told to move to open source

    Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the federal government agencies to switch to free and open source software by 2015. He signed a plan "for the transition of federal executive bodies and agencies to free software" on 17 December.

    The transition will start this year with a federal support centre. After the summer the first collection of free and open source software applications will be used on servers and on desktop systems. First to start using this will be the ministry of Communications. Other federal government institutes are invited to participate in this first phase.

    Half a year later, the plan foresees a repository for free and open source applications used by federal public administrations.

  • Federal telemedical network to be launched in Russia

    The project to connect all medical institutions to the internet is being prepared in Russia. Its implementation might help to improve the quality of medical service and save budgetary funds.

    'Next year we hope to start construction of the telecommunication network for medical institutions and connect (them – CNews) to the internet through HS leased lines', - Leonid Reiman, RF Minister of Communications, reported at the Exhibition and Forum 'InfoCom-2007'. He says corresponding proposals will be used in the implementation plan 'Development Strategy of E-society in Russia till 2015'.

  • From Russia with IT

    Russia is braving its e-government future, with a new IT programme now in operation

    Russian citizens can look forward to less bureaucracy in their dealings with government, thanks to the e-Russia programme which has now passed its "implementation" phase.

  • How To Give a Boost To Electronic Russia?

    The Rucamp “creative class” festival, which is opening in Moscow, brings together Internet experts, futurologists, programmers, and media people. The discussion of such global topics as “The State Tomorrow”, “Education Tomorrow”, “Media Tomorrow”, and “Human Beings Tomorrow”, is organized in unofficial format and more resembles an “unbridled brain storm” than anything else.

    Speaking about the “State of Tomorrow”, the participants of the festival put a particular stress on the electronic government (e-Government).

  • IN: India, Russia to collaborate in digital economy

    India and Russia will collaborate in digital economy and explore areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and e-health, Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Friday.

    He said the inherent strengths of India and Russia in software and hardware provide growth avenues for mutual benefits.

  • India: Russian help sought to set up disaster management centre

    Exploring the possibility of joint venture in India to produce silicon chips, telecom equipment: A. Raja

    India will be seeking Russia's assistance in setting up a national disaster management centre modelled on a Russian facility, Union IT and Communications Minister A. Raja said.

    The Minister was “highly impressed” by the high-tech National Emergency Management Centre he visited in Moscow. The centre gathers online information about natural and manmade disasters all over Russia and coordinates relief and mitigation efforts.

  • Indian, Russian firms sign an agreement to cooperate in smart city projects, cyber security and e-governance

    Indian and Russian firms have signed an agreement to cooperate in Information Technology and the projects in the agreement include cooperation in Smart City projects, cyber security and e-governance, officials said.

    The agreements were signed by Russian RusITExport (RITE), a key integrator of top Russian IT solutions in the global market, and Indian firm Aark Infosoft Pvt Ltd for development of complex IT projects in India.

  • Information society 2.0: Russia to spend fortune on another IT project

    The country plans to splash out billions of dollars on an IT makeover to create a bona fide information society.

    The aim of the project is to provide more Russians with access to broadband Internet, 3G and 4G, and other telecommunications.

    Among other targets are development of Russia’s IT market, promotion of Internet safety, and further simplifying the interaction between citizens and the state through e-government.

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