E-government

From energy policies, to education, to crime investigation, Russian government bets on AI to achieve its digital transformation

November 18, 2020

The Russian government has plans to use of artificial intelligence increasingly in the framework of its digital transformation.   On November 12, the heads of digital transformation of seven federal ministries and agencies — covering energy, industry and trade, culture, education and science, cadastre, agriculture, and taxes — gathered in a “strategic session on artificial …

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Pilot blockchain system ensures integrity of crucial steps of the voting process – but authorities keep the last word

September 14, 2020

During three days, from Friday 11 to Sunday 13 September, voters from 83 Russian regions are being called to elect members of local parliaments and, in certain cases, regional governors as well as federal-level deputies. More than 9,000 local campaigns took place in what observers see as a key test for the country’s pro-Putin ruling …

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First test for Moscow’s online voting system ends in failure

July 14, 2019

Moscow’s first test for a new remote electronic voting system ended in a technological failure, prominent election analyst Grigory Melkonyants announced on Facebook. The Internet voting mechanism was put to the test during an election for the best student congress president in Moscow’s higher education system. 1,794 “voters” — that is, Moscow university students — were asked …

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Online voting is coming to Russia

March 2, 2019

Just before Russia’s most recent presidential elections in 2018, several fundamental changes were made to the country’s election laws. Absentee ballots were replaced with the so-called Mobile Voter system, which allowed voters to switch precincts ahead of the election either online or in person. Both election observers and opposition politicians immediately criticized the new system. Less than one year later, Russian …

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Russia drops state-backed e-card project

December 29, 2016

By voting amendments to the legislation on the provision of services earlier this month, the Russian parliament sounded the death knell for the Universal Electronic Card (UEC) project. A tangible manifestation of Russia’s all-embracing e-government ideas, the UEC was originally intended to incorporate or replace virtually all existing identifying information, from ID cards to student IDs and …

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IIDF supports online project to turn “angry citizens” into “satisfied citizens”

December 26, 2018

Earlier this month the IIDF (FRII in Russian, a major fund launched last year to support Russian Internet startups), announced an investment of 44 million rubles (approximately $1.1 million) in Intelligent Social Systems. This company develops IT projects for facilitating effective interaction between the public and state agencies and commercial organisations. Its first project was “Angry Citizen,” …

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St. Petersburg international conference to address e-governance challenges across Europe and Asia

October 23, 2014

The international conference “Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia” (EGOSE 2014) will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia, on November 18-20, 2014. The EGOSE 2014 aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society, e-government, e-governance, and e-democracy. The conference provides a platform for networking and collaboration between e-governance experts in the …

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Russia overhauls its e-government plans

June 16, 2014

The Russian authorities have redesigned most of the country’s prior e-government plans with new deadlines, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported last week. The unexpected rewind appears to throw the project back to its 2009 starting point, calling off the 2014 target for the endeavor to come online. Not only is the deadline for completion of the project …

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National telecom operator to keep steering Russia’s e-government ship

November 19, 2014

Rostelecom, the national telecom operator, will remain fully in charge of Russia’s ambitious $150 million e-government program for at least another two years, Russian business daily Kommersant reported last week. Seven months after the operator’s contract expired, President Vladimir Putin of Russia is reported to have personally decreed the prolongation of the Cabinet’s co-funding of …

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Russia discovers upsetting delays in its far-reaching e-government effort

November 19, 2014

A widely touted nationwide e-government system, designed to facilitate interdepartmental interaction between government agencies and streamline the offering of government services to Russian citizens, seems to have barely progressed in the past year. The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia reported last week the results of its latest August monitoring of the e-government Gosuslugi.ru portal, supposed to …

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Russian authorities in search of new suppliers for e-government

May 13, 2013

Russia’s government prefers to take its time before signing a new contract with an outside service provider to support its electronic infrastructure, including systems of interdepartmental collaboration, the government services portal Gosuslugi.ru, and a unified system of identification and authentication. So far, the government’s provider for these projects has been Rostelecom, Russia’s leading telecom operator, …

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