In July 2017, the government approved the Digital Economy program, prepared by the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications on behalf of President Vladimir Putin. A little earlier, the digital economy was included in the list of main directions of strategic development of Russia until 2025. The main goal of the program is the creation in Russia of a digital economy ecosystem, in which “data in digital form is a key factor of production in all areas of socio-economic activity.” The program defines the basic directions, tasks and deadlines for the implementation of the main government policy measures for the development of the digital economy for the period until 2024.

Who will manage the Digital Economy?

The government commission on the use of IT to improve the quality of life and business conditions, chaired by Dmitry Medvedev. This body was created by transforming in 2013 the government commission on the implementation of IT in the activities of state bodies and local governments.

On August 15, 2017, a government decree created a subcommittee on the digital economy under the government commission on the use of IT to improve the quality of life and business conditions. A new subcommittee chaired by Maxim Akimova, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation, will review draft action plans and make appropriate proposals to the government commission, monitor the implementation of action plans and consider disagreements or contradictions in bills that arise between their participants.

Monitoring the implementation of the program and approving action plans Review of draft action plans and submission to the Commission for consideration preparation of proposals to the President of the Russian Federation on the development and implementation of the Digital Economy program Federal executive authorities responsible for the implementation of the Program areas. Coordination of the execution of action plans, presentation to the Commission of plans approved by the subcommittee Collection of proposals and preparation of draft action plans. Execution of action plans Preparation of proposals for project action plans. Participation in performance assessment

The functions of the project office for the implementation of the program are assigned to the ANO Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation. This organization will be responsible for creating an information system for electronic interaction between program participants and organizational and methodological support.

For the implementation of the first two directions (“Regulatory Regulation” and “Personnel and Education”, the Ministry of Economic Development was appointed as the responsible executive body; for the rest – the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications). The ministries will coordinate the implementation of action plans, submit plans approved by the subcommittee to the government commission, and coordinate projects with interested parties.

An important point in managing the state program is the establishment by leading companies of the ANO Digital Economy. An organization created by such market leaders as Rostelecom, Megafon, Rosatom, Sberbank, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI), Rostec, Yandex, Open Mobile Platform, 1C, Mail.Ru Group, MTS , Skolkovo, VEB Innovations, Rambler & Co, Russian Post and Beeline, will form working groups and competence centers for each area of ​​the program, interact with business, support startups, and also evaluate the effectiveness of the program and prepare annual report on a relevant topic. Became General Director of ANO Digital Economy Evgeniy Kovnir, who until recently worked as deputy director of the “Young Professionals” direction at ASI. Evgeniy Kovnir previously worked as director of the IT industry development department at the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications.

Working groups responsible for preparing proposals for action plans and corresponding conclusions will also take part in the effectiveness assessment. The heads of the working groups have already been identified: the working group in the area of ​​“Regulatory Regulation” will be headed by Ruslan Ibragimov(MTS PJSC), “Personnel and Education” – Boris Nuraliev(“1C”), “Formation of research competencies and technological groundwork” – Alexander Povalko(RVC), “Information infrastructure” – Anna Serebryanikova(“MegaFon”), “Information Security” – Natalia Kasperskaya(InfoWatch).

Competence centers will collect proposals for draft action plans and prepare draft action plans (including explanatory notes and financial and economic feasibility studies). Also, the centers will be directly involved in the implementation of action plans within their competence and will report to the responsible federal executive body (the Ministry of Economic Development or the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications) and the project office. The center of competence in the area of ​​“Regulatory Regulation” was determined by Skolkovo, “Personnel and Education” - the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, “Formation of Research Competencies and Technological Groundwork” - “Rostec” and “Rosatom”, “Information Infrastructure” - “Rostelecom”, “ Information security" – Sberbank. A specific action plan for the Digital Economy program will be prepared by the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications by October 30, 2017.

CNews Analytics analyzed the activity of the government commission on IT for the period 2010 - 2017. – the graphs below clearly display the activity of the IT Commission and how gradually, year after year, the number of its meetings and meetings was reduced. If the first chairman Sergei Sobyanin on average held 1.89 meetings per month, then the last two chairmen Vladislav Surkov and Dmitry Medvedev, this figure decreased to 0.22 and 0.21 meetings per month, respectively. During his 48 months as chairman of the IT government commission, Dmitry Medvedev held only 10 meetings.

Source: CNews Analytics, 2017

Source: CNews Analytics, 2017

Regulatory regulation: blockchain, fighting digital cartels and a single digital environment of trust

The approved “Digital Economy” program involves the creation of a regulatory environment conducive to the emergence and development of new digital technologies. First of all, it is planned to remove key restrictions and create separate legal institutions aimed at solving the priority tasks of forming a digital economy.

By the end of 2018, regulations will be adopted to ensure the creation of legal conditions for the formation of a “single digital environment of trust”: remote identification and authentication of individuals and legal entities to perform legally significant actions will be equated to face-to-face paper forms of interaction. The market for services of a third trusted party will also be legalized and regulated, independently recording and providing interested parties with legal facts related to electronic interaction and documents.

By the end of 2020, a regulatory framework for the collection, storage and processing of large amounts of data, including using new technologies, must be developed and adopted, subject to the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of subjects and owners. By the same date, legal issues related to the use of robotics and artificial intelligence will be resolved, and information disclosure standards will be introduced, including in the form of open data and default data disclosure by government agencies.

Source: CNews Analytics, 2017

Organizations that carry out priority activities in the digital economy, including the collection and use of data, or have a certain level of informatization of processes and are ready to open them to the state, from the end of 2020 will be able to take advantage of a special legal regime that provides comfortable conditions for development.

The changes will also affect the sphere of intellectual rights (combating abuses in the form of combining patents and standards, technological discrimination, etc.) and antitrust legislation - the state undertakes to remove entry barriers for startups in terms of access to key technologies and databases, and to counter “digital cartels” » and anti-competitive behavior in innovative markets. The program promises, by the end of 2020, to ensure regulatory regulation of innovative technologies in the financial market, to create legal conditions for technologies for decentralized registry maintenance and certification of rights.

However, the 87-page document is aimed at creating a “digital environment of trust” not only in Russia, but also on the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union - it is planned to form common approaches to the digital economy, harmonize Russian legislation in accordance with them and remove restrictions on the development of the digital economy contained in the law of the EAEU.

Personnel and education: digital analogue of the GTO, mass retraining of personnel and search for talents

In the “Personnel and Education” direction, the program involves creating key conditions for training personnel for the digital economy - for this, the education system will have to go through a series of transformations, Russians will be motivated to master new competencies, and the labor market should be based on the requirements of the digital economy.

Already next year, a public-private venture fund will appear to support promising educational projects in the digital economy. In addition, a system of early identification, support and accompaniment of highly motivated and talented students will be created, which will provide grant support for teachers and organizations working with young talents. All general education organizations will move to independent certification of students’ level of basic competencies in the digital economy, and a special legal regime will be created in 2020 for organizations engaged in training specialists in the subject area of ​​Technology.

By the end of 2019, federal educational standards for all levels of education will be updated taking into account the requirements of the digital economy, and an open format of individual competency profiles of citizens and trajectories of their development, including the results of educational and work activities, will be introduced. It is planned that by 2024, 100% of students and at least 60% of all citizens will use personal development trajectories that will replace the usual work books. It is expected to remove barriers and ensure regulation of “flexible” labor relations, including remote work.

It is planned to widely use distance learning technologies, promote the development of entrepreneurial skills among students, and ensure government procurement for a list of specialties that are critical for the digital economy. As early as next year, the government plans to remove barriers to hiring foreign specialists who are of particular interest to the digital economy. In particular, introduce a “young professional card” - foreigners with high competencies who are fluent in Russian will be able to enter and work in Russia using it, as well as receive a number of other preferences. It is planned to use the scholarship mechanism for promising foreign students and specialists planning to work in the Russian Federation. On the contrary, business and cultural ties will be maintained with Russian specialists who have left abroad.

By the end of 2020, Russians will have the opportunity to quickly master the basic competencies of the digital economy through the system of “elite” secondary vocational education. High-tech domestic companies will take part in the development of strategies for the development of vocational education organizations; current employees of the IT industry are promised to create comfortable conditions for attracting them as teachers.

These and many other efforts should bring Russia by 2024 to 12th place in the international PISA ranking and to 30th place in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index. Every year it is planned to produce 800 thousand graduates of higher and secondary vocational educational institutions with IT skills at the world average, and 120 thousand graduates of higher education - IT professionals.

The needs for retraining of personnel will be determined in the 100 largest companies in Russia and retraining operators will be selected. Digital literacy programs will also be launched for the older generation with the involvement of schoolchildren’s initiatives. The state will issue digital vouchers (a system of incentive payments) for teaching children and adults digital literacy. Applicants to universities for certain professions will be given benefits if the applicant successfully passes the “digital analogue of the GTO standards”; such certification also promises non-material benefits to company employees. While for civil servants and employees of state-owned companies, the presence of basic competencies in the digital economy will become mandatory from 2024.

Research competencies and technological groundwork: international cooperation and targeted support for companies

The entire section devoted to the formation of research competencies and technological groundwork is focused on the tasks of creating an appropriate institutional environment and creating a system to support exploratory, applied research in the field of the digital economy. Thus, in 2018, it is planned to create a pilot digital platform for research and development in one of the areas of “end-to-end” technologies, the list of which includes: big data, neurotechnology and artificial intelligence, distributed registry systems, quantum technologies, new production technologies, industrial Internet , robotics and sensor components, wireless communication technologies, as well as virtual and augmented reality technologies.

By 2024, it is planned to create one digital platform for research and development in each area of ​​“end-to-end” technologies with at least 10 participants and 3 partners from among international competence centers. In terms of international cooperation, by the end of 2020, Russian organizations must take part in the implementation of at least 10 large international projects in the priority areas of the ISTS (volume of at least $3 million) in the field of the digital economy on the basis of effective international partnerships and joint financing.

Next year, at least two domestic competence centers will be created in the areas of “end-to-end” technologies on the basis of leading organizations coordinating research and development carried out in the country. To involve large companies in the work of such centers, a system of measures will be developed, including financial incentives and PPP mechanisms. By 2020, it is expected that at least two centers of competence will appear in each of the areas of “end-to-end” technologies.

To develop competencies in “end-to-end” technologies, by 2024, at least 5 postgraduate and master’s schools in “end-to-end” technologies will be launched on the basis of leading universities and scientific organizations, and a system of sabbatical leave will be introduced for employees of research institutes and universities. In addition, it is planned to send Russian specialists for training abroad - by the end of 2024, at least 500 specialists will undergo training in “end-to-end” technologies abroad and return to Russia.

From 2018, companies capable of becoming leaders in global technology markets will be selected on an annual basis to further support the commercialization of the results of their research and development, incl. export (compensation for part of the costs of logistics, certification, legal protection, exhibition activities, preferential lending, etc.). Until 2020, it is planned to provide targeted support to five companies per year, then their number will be increased to 10. By 2024, it is planned to implement at least 30 projects (volume of at least 100 million rubles) with high commercial potential in the field of digital economy, taking into account priorities of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation.

The development of research and development in the digital economy will be measured by an almost 60% increase in the number of patent applications by 2024 in five key technology areas and an increase in the share of the ICT sector in total domestic research and development spending to 4.3%.

Information infrastructure: 5G in large cities, 100 Mbit/s to each home

The “Digital Economy” program envisages serious development of information infrastructure: by 2024, 97% of Russian households and 100% of state and local government bodies, medical and educational organizations will receive broadband access to the network (at least 100 Mbit/sec). 100% of federal highways will be provided with radiotelephone coverage, and 15 cities with a population of over a million will have stable 5G coverage.

There are plans to build a federal narrowband communication network using LPWAN technology for collecting and processing telematic information - in the third quarter of 2019, LPWAN networks using mainly domestic equipment will be implemented in the first five cities with a population of one million. In the same year, we should expect the launch of data centers in the Central, Northwestern, Ural and Siberian federal districts. A distributed data center system (using domestic equipment) will ensure the processing of all data generated by Russian citizens and organizations on the territory of the Russian Federation; The capacity of Russian data centers will reach 80 thousand rack spaces by 2024. By the end of 2019, a state unified cloud platform will be launched, to which the information systems and resources of government agencies will be gradually transferred.

In 2020, a master data management system will be implemented - data, including government data, will become available for use in digital platforms, and domestic digital platforms for the collection, processing and distribution of spatial data will be created for the needs of cartography, geodesy and remote sensing data Earth (the “Digital Earth” project, aimed at creating and regularly updating a continuous, seamless coverage of remote sensing data on the entire globe).

Information security: import substitution, more government regulation and new types of responsibility

The authors of the program determined the fundamental principles of information security: the use of Russian technologies to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, authentication and availability of transmitted information and its processing processes; preferential use of domestic software and equipment; application of Russian cryptographic standards.

At the end of 2019, the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation will be supplemented by the criminalization of new types of acts committed using information technologies. And from the beginning of 2020, officials will bear administrative responsibility for failure to use certified cryptographic algorithms when organizing connections using secure protocols.

A whole range of measures is proposed to strengthen government control in the field of information security. Thus, in 2019, a centralized system for monitoring and managing the unified telecommunications network of the Russian Federation will be put into operation. By the end of this year, the legal status and operating procedure of the Russian segment of the Internet will be fixed, and at the beginning of 2019, requirements for software and hardware protection against computer attacks, including DDoS attacks, illegal content, and traffic analysis and filtering tools will be adopted by law. The average GIS downtime due to computer attacks should be reduced from 65 hours in 2018 to 1 hour in 2024.

The document also talks about transferring traffic routing of the Russian segment of the Internet to Russian territory. The share of Russian Internet traffic routed through foreign servers should be reduced from 50% in 2018 to 10% in 2024 according to the road map, and in the main text of the program the same indicator is indicated at the level of 5% (presumably remained from original version of the program).

At the beginning of next year it is planned to create a Competence Center for import substitution in the field of ICT. Later, preferences for domestic computer, server and telecommunications equipment in government procurement will be legislated and requirements for its use at data processing infrastructure facilities will be established; by 2024, Russian-made equipment should appear at all information infrastructure facilities in the Russian Federation.

The current situation with the procurement of domestic software will be monitored and controlled on an ongoing basis, and a system of incentives will be developed for manufacturers and consumers of domestic equipment. Similar incentive mechanisms will be created for developers and users of Russian software - government agencies, state-owned companies and companies with state participation should purchase no more than 10% of foreign software by 2024 (for equipment this indicator is set at 50%).

Next year, a council on the security of new technologies and a competence center on machine-to-machine communication will be created. In the field of machine-to-machine interaction in cyber-physical environments and the Internet of Things, national standards will be adopted, liability for unauthorized interference will be introduced, and domestic security systems will be introduced.

To ensure the “protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the individual” in the digital economy, the rights and obligations of participants in information interaction when processing personal data, big user data, including in social networks and other means of social communication, will be legally defined. By the end of 2020, the state plans to establish control over the processing and access to such data, and liability will be established for their improper processing and security. The authors of the program plan to create a resource where citizens can obtain information about cases of use of their personal data and refuse such use.

In 2019, requirements for identifying users of the network or Internet of Things will be legislatively established, and ownership rights to data created by users will be delineated. To prevent the appearance of illegal information on the RuNet, special mechanisms will be developed, including the removal of such information on the basis of self-regulatory organizations.

In addition, it is expected that by 2024, 90% of business entities will use the national payment system, and IT companies will willingly join the system of voluntary declaration of the level of security of ICT products and services (Information Security Declaration).

How much does the Digital Economy cost?

In his speech at a meeting of the council on strategic development and priority projects in July 2017. Nikolay Nikiforov, Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, said that the costs of implementing the Digital Economy program will amount to approximately 100 billion rubles. per year. At the same time, the minister noted that a significant part of the funds has already been included in federal budget expenditures. However, later, at the CNews conference “ICT in the public sector”, the Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Alexey Kozyrev that this amount is not an estimate of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications.

“This was an estimate from above, and it was made on the basis of expert opinions,” Kozyrev explained the origin of the estimate of 100 billion needs. - When we talk about the budget, we must have a clear justification for why this or that event costs this particular money. It is impossible to make such a justification until we have detailed plans for implementing the program.”

The Deputy Minister noted that currently in the budget for 2018 and the period 2019-2020. There is no expense item in the “Digital Economy” area. Alexey Kozyrev believes that the costs of financing the program will be taken into account in November 2017 as part of government amendments to the budget.

Source: CNews Analytics, 2017

On August 15, 2017, Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting, following which the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications were instructed, together with Vnesheconombank (VEB), to develop proposals on the volumes and mechanisms for VEB’s financing of “high-tech and innovative projects, implemented including within the framework of the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation program ", and ensure consideration of these proposals at a meeting of the Supervisory Board of Vnesheconombank. A meeting of the VEB Supervisory Board, at which proposals for financing the Digital Economy will be considered, will take place in October 2017.

Development directions: eight minus three

Thus, the main directions of development of the digital economy are: regulatory regulation, personnel and education, the formation of research competencies and technical groundwork, information infrastructure and information security. It should be noted that the initial draft of the program, presented in April 2017, has undergone significant changes. Following the results of SPIEF 2017, V. Putin sent the project for revision and in the final version it lost three of the eight basic areas of development: initially, in addition to the approved five areas, major changes were also planned in the field of public administration, “smart cities” and digital healthcare.

Thus, in the sphere of public administration, by 2025 it was planned to transfer 80% of all government services into electronic form, and the indicator of completion of this task was considered to be citizen satisfaction with the quality of electronic services at the level of 90%. Organizations were required to completely abandon paper when providing any forms of reporting, and 30% of reports were to be generated automatically. At least 90% of document flow within and between departments was planned to be transferred to digital format using electronic signatures. In the first version of the Digital Economy program, it was planned to implement the concept of “50 “smart” cities of Russia,” in which 50 million residents of these cities would participate. 90% of decisions on the development and functioning of such cities would be made with the participation of citizens in the form of electronic voting, and in 12 out of 50 “smart” cities, pilot operation of unmanned public transport would be carried out.

Information infrastructure

• 0,05 %

• 97 %

• 100 % authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, medical and educational organizations have broadband access - 100 Mbit/s, 100 % federal authorities have broadband access – 1 Gbit/s

• 5G in cities with a population of >1 million inhabitants
• 65 thousand km federal highways with stable radiotelephone coverage
• 9 core data centers in federal districts

• 80 thousand
• 10 %
• On 90 %
• 90 %

• 90 %

• 0,05 % average per capita cash income will be the subscription fee for fixed Internet access

• 97 % – share of households that have broadband Internet access

• 100 % State authorities and local governments, medical and preventive and educational organizations have a broadband access of at least 100 Mbit/sec

• 15 million-plus cities with stable 5G coverage

• 5G in cities with a population >300 thousand residents
• 100 % km of federal highways with stable radiotelephone coverage
• 8 core data centers in federal districts

• 80 thousand rack space – capacity of Russian data centers
• 10 % – Russia’s share in the global volume of data storage and processing services
• On 90 % economically developed territories of the Russian Federation, a unified state environment for the transmission of navigation and logistics information has been created
• 90 % – share of Russian remote sensing data in the total volume of remote sensing data used in Russian geographic information systems

• 90 % IP and resources of state authorities and local self-government have been transferred to a single state cloud platform

Personnel and education

• 5th place Russia is in the top 20 ranking of job attractiveness for highly qualified specialists
• 50 %

• 80 % of the working-age population has a digital record of their personal development trajectory

• 500 thousand/year

• 100 thousand/year

• 40 %

• 100 %
• 1 million
• 12th place Russia in the PISA ranking
• 30th place

• On the basis of the 100 largest companies / state corporations of the Russian Federation, centers have been opened for retraining specialists in the top 100 competencies of the digital economy.
• 5th place Russia is in the top 20 ranking of job attractiveness for highly qualified specialists
• 50 % during school time, students use and master digital tools as part of general education programs

• 60 % citizens uses the competency profile and personal development trajectory

• 800 thousand/year– the number of higher and secondary vocational graduates with IT skills at the global average level

• 120 thousand/year– number of higher education graduates – IT professionals

• 100 % State final certification of graduates is carried out using digital tools

• 100 % students choose individual learning paths to obtain competencies
• 1 million specialists who have undergone retraining as part of additional education
• 12th place Russia in the PISA ranking
• 30th place Russia in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index

Formation of research competencies and technical groundwork

• 10 digital platforms for research and development, at least 50 participants

• 10 champion companies in the field of end-to-end technologies, competitive in global markets through the successful use of R&D results

• 100 research projects (at least 20 million rubles) using digital platforms

• Increase in the number of patent applications by 2025 in 4 technology areas by 50%

• 4,3 %

• 10 Russian organizations are participating in the implementation of major international projects in the field of digital economy research

• 90 % IP and resources of state authorities and local self-government have been transferred to a single state cloud platform

• 2 competence centers for each of the areas of “end-to-end” technologies
• 15 “test sites” for testing “end-to-end” technologies within digital platforms
• 15 technology parks (both newly created and reoriented) operating in the field of digital platforms
• 20 research centers of the largest global players in the field of digital economy
• 50 makerspaces for scientists at universities, scientific organizations, companies within digital platforms

• 10 industry digital platforms for the main subject areas of economics, at least 100 participants

• 10 companies - technology leaders, competitive in the global market

• 30 completed projects (at least RUB 100 million) with high commercial potential in the digital economy

• Increase in the number of patent applications by 2024 in 5 technology areas by 60%

• 4,3 % domestic research and development expenditures are in the ICT sector

• 10 Russian organizations are participating in the implementation of large ($3 million) international projects in the field of digital economy research

• 90 % IP and resources of state authorities and local self-government have been transferred to a single state cloud platform
• 500 specialists were trained abroad in the areas of “end-to-end” technologies and returned to Russia

Information security

• 8th place

• 5 %

• 75 %

• 30 % foreign software is purchased by federal executive authorities/regional executive authorities/state corporations/companies with state participation

• 75 % subjects of information interaction (state authorities and local governments, companies with state participation and/or related to critical information infrastructure), uses standards for secure information interaction in terms of process control systems and the Internet of things

• 97 %

• 50 %
• 90 %
• 1 hour
• 50 %

• 8th place in the ITU Cybersecurity Index 2020

• 10 % internal network traffic of the Russian segment of the Internet, routed through foreign servers

• 75 % organizations uses standards for secure information interaction

• 10 % foreign software is purchased by federal executive authorities/regional executive authorities/state corporations/companies with state participation

• 90 % subjects of information interaction (state authorities and local governments, companies with state participation and/or related to critical information infrastructure), uses standards for secure information interaction in terms of cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things

• 97 % citizens who have used the Internet over the past 12 months use information security tools

• 50 % Foreign-made ICT equipment is purchased by federal executive authorities/regional executive authorities/state corporations/companies with state participation
• 90 % business entities use the national payment system
• 1 hour average downtime of government information systems as a result of computer attacks
• 50 % citizens increased literacy in the field of information security, media consumption and use of Internet services
• 90 % intra- and interdepartmental exchange of documents in electronic form using an electronic signature

• Approval of the detailed concept of “50 “smart” cities of Russia”
• 50 million people – population of cities participating in the implementation of the concept of “50 “smart” cities of Russia”
• 90 % decisions on the development and functioning of cities are made with the participation of citizens through electronic voting
• 95 % new consumers (including households in new buildings) and consumers who replaced metering devices during 2017-2020 use remote metering devices for the consumption of heat, energy and water resources
• Pilot operation of unmanned public transport is underway in 12 smart cities
• 80% of buildings and structures of real estate are constructed using digital models

• On 30 % increased productivity and efficiency of use of material, human, information and other resources and data in the provision of medical services
• The infrastructure for the functioning of digital medical services has been created
• 100 % medical organizations switched to electronic medical document management
• 50 % newborns with molecular “omics” profile management within the framework of EHR
• 12 business incubators and accelerators were created by development institutes in the field of digital health
• 100 % doctors who have the opportunity to gain access to the patient’s IHR with his permission
• 100 % medical organizations of all forms of ownership have access to services for personalized monitoring of patient health, subject to their consent
• 100 % healthcare workers use a single identification system within the digital health ecosystem

The “Digital Healthcare” section, excluded from the program, described the tasks of creating a digital healthcare ecosystem in Russia by transferring innovative solutions to medical institutions and supporting domestic startups in this area through 12 business incubators and accelerators. For example, it was planned that all medical organizations would switch to electronic medical document management, that 100% of doctors would have access to IEMK and services for personalized monitoring of the patient’s health status (with his consent), and that the productivity of material, human, and information resources in the provision of medical services would increase by 30%. Citizens would have electronic medical records, and half of the newborns would have a molecular omics profile. The government did not comment on the exclusion of the above three areas from the draft program.

Alima Nurgazieva

On February 14 of this year, the Council for Legislative Support for the Development of the Digital Economy under the Chairman of the State Duma was created Vyacheslav Volodin. The Council’s tasks include discussing the most important issues in the field of high technology, including resolving issues of the development of artificial intelligence, robotics, etc., as well as participating in the preparation of legislative initiatives. According to the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Levin, the Council is currently preparing to implement a large program: the Government Communications Commission plans to submit about 50 bills to the State Duma as part of the "" program. “The package of documents being developed will revolutionize the use of technology by the state in the interests of citizens,” the deputy said at yesterday’s press conference.

In addition to the initiatives that are still being prepared, there are also laws that have already been adopted. Thus, last week, deputies approved several laws directly related to the development of the digital economy. Among them is the law on the creation of a system for remote identification of bank clients, which provides for the ability to open bank accounts without the personal presence of an individual. As well as the law on mandatory identification of goods, according to which the Government of the Russian Federation received the right:

• approve the list of goods subject to mandatory marking with identification marks;
• determine a list of groups of economic entities that carry out labeling of goods by type of activity;
• introduce rules for labeling individual goods;
• establish an additional mandatory detail of a cash receipt or strict reporting form - “product code”, which allows you to identify the product and (or) product range.

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Such identification is intended to help track the circulation of goods, their legality, and also create conditions for protecting the interests of business entities and consumers. The law will come into force on January 1, 2019.

At the same time, along with improving legislation, one of the most important tasks in establishing a digital economy in Russia is to increase the level of knowledge of officials about information technology, Levin is sure. “Unfortunately, people who are responsible not only in the regions, but also at the federal level for IT and the development of the Internet, do not themselves fully understand the principles of their work. Starting with the fact that many of them cannot always distinguish a website from a page on social media network or messenger, and ending with making wrong decisions related to the development of technology. What they are trying to ban can often be resolved through dialogue with industry representatives. Moreover, sometimes fellow deputies introduce this or that bill without fully understanding how. how the Internet works and how technology works,” he noted. It is expected that the educational task will be taken over by the Internet Development Institute (IRI), whose new chairman Leonid Levin was appointed on December 4, replacing German Klimenko.

In addition, according to the deputy’s forecasts, the implementation of blockchain technology (a public database without centralized management that contains and stores all transactions) will soon begin at government sites, which is expected to ensure a higher speed of information transfer and its security. According to him, this technology is already being used by some banks and is being actively tested on the Rosreestr site, and the FAS Russia plans to use it when interacting with various organizations. If necessary, the expert added, the state is ready to regulate by law the specifics of the use of such technology.

“The faster we create the prerequisites for the development of the digital economy in our country, develop new principles, concepts and legislative norms, the greater the chance that we will not remain on the sidelines, but will be able to actively develop economic activity,” Levin concluded.

The government is creating a subcommittee on the Digital Economy program

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Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on a tool for operational management of the implementation of the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation program. This was reported by the government press service.

To operationally manage the implementation of the “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” program, a subcommittee on the digital economy is being created under the government commission on the use of information technologies to improve the quality of life and business conditions.

The personal composition of the subcommittee has been approved. The subcommittee included representatives of federal executive authorities, the government apparatus and the presidential administration of Russia, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, and the analytical center under the Russian Government.

The subcommittee is headed by First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government Maxim Akimov.

Earlier, Medvedev said that the goal of the program is to organize the systematic development and implementation of digital technologies in all areas of life - both in the economy and in entrepreneurship, as a social activity and in public administration, the social sphere and in the urban economy. Digitizing the economy is a matter of global competitiveness and national security. The program execution horizon is 2024. The program consists of five areas related to regulatory regulation, education, personnel, development of research competencies and IT infrastructure and cybersecurity.

The Government Commission on the Digital Economy may determine new directions for the Digital Economy state program during February. First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation Maxim Akimov told reporters about this on the sidelines of the Gaidar Forum at RANEPA.

“I think we will decide during February at the level of the government commission, too, how the program will change, how it will be supplemented with industry areas,” Akimov said.

He recalled that the government had previously instructed the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Communications, the Digital Economy ANO and the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation to prepare proposals for new areas of the state program by February 15. Currently, there are 5 areas in the Digital Economy: “regulatory regulation”, “personnel and education”, “formation of research competencies and technological groundwork”, “information infrastructure”, “personnel and education”.

“Now it is very important to build a dialogue with the business community and with the expert community about what areas we can talk about. It is clear that the agenda is very large - from healthcare to logistics, from energy to smart cities; there are a lot of different proposals, including media, gaming, fintech, etc. It is clear that the program cannot develop an agenda so quickly, because it is necessary to digest the central agenda. But we believe that by February 15 we will be ready to decide on the industry agenda,” Akimov said.

Currently, the Government is waiting for a draft action plan in the area of ​​“personnel and education” until January 31.

“There is always such a risk, but we will try to withstand it. It will appear in the government, perhaps with disagreements, but then we will work with it internally,” Akimov said, answering the question of whether there is a risk that the document may not be submitted to the government within the specified time frame.

“There is a complex discussion going on about professional standards, the dynamics of the evolution of changes in the regulation of professional standards, how to fit them into the current qualification regulation. This discussion is taking place at the level of Olga Yurievna Golodets; in a sense, she initiates and models. This discussion is very meaningful, it must end. It is better to speak honestly about everything with trade unions, employers and the digital community than to simply say that we have made a fifth program. This work will be completed during January. Consensus between the ASI, between the working group, the position of the Deputy Prime Minister, the position of the Minister of Labor and Social Protection has almost been achieved,” Akimov explained.

According to him, two months ago the discussion around the document “was very painful,” but now understanding has increased significantly.

According to the head of government Dmitry Medvedev, when implementing the digital economy program, several tasks must be solved: firstly, expanding support for start-ups, small and medium-sized businesses that are developing and implementing digital technologies, “because it is this business segment that is most actively involved in this kind of activity." “In order for a business to go digital, we need to think about what kind of financial support to provide it, what additional tax regimes to create, what existing administrative barriers could be eliminated,” Medvedev said at a meeting on the implementation of the “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” program. on Tuesday.

The meeting was attended by First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov, Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin, and heads of specialized companies.

Secondly, the prime minister said, it will be necessary to monitor how digital economy programs are being implemented in other countries, cooperate with foreign companies where possible, create joint projects, invite talented specialists and foreigners to work in Russia and return our citizens who left and deal with these topics. “When developing technologies, we should not limit ourselves only to some of our own approaches,” Medvedev said.

In addition, he announced his intention to create an autonomous non-profit organization “Digital Economy”. Large structures such as Rostec, Rosatom, Sberbank, Rostelecom, Skolkovo Foundation, Agency for Strategic Initiatives, Yandex, Mail.Ru, Rambler and some others are ready to join this organization. “The new organization will generate requests from businesses, monitor the Digital Economy program, and evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of this program. And it will be an advisory governing body, determining some strategic points and, of course, technology,” the prime minister said.