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.
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“The battle against corruption is one of the main goals of this effort,” said Andrei Lipov, director of the ministry’s department for information technology and informatization policy.
“If we can provide even a part of the services people need via an e-government system, we expect corruption associated with government services to citizens to go down,” he said.
"A directive has been issued to change the permanent and temporary residence registration procedure for Russian citizens," Putin said. "These changes include the use of the Internet as a registration option."
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Mr Medvedev noted that the current legislation defines the responsibility for municipal improvement in very general terms only and agreed with the proposals made by representatives of municipalities to introduce relevant amendments to federal legislation specifying certain aspects of this work. At the same time, regulations should be flexible and tailored to regional and local demands. President Medvedev suggested to include municipal improvement among the criteria for evaluating local government performance.
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