Russian President and tech lover Dmitry Medvedev announced yesterday on Twitter that he has opened a Facebook account. 24 hours later, Medvedev had been “liked” by over 2,800 Facebook users, but his Friend Activity page displayed only a news story – dated, for strange reasons, from late August 2011 – about his meeting with Bielorussian …
New federal legislation on administrative electronic exchange, which went into effect on October 1st in regard to federal agencies, could radically simplify the exchange between private citizens and Russian administrative bodies. Under the new law, federal officials will no longer be able to request documents or information from private citizens already available in the databases …
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Lev Kuznetsov, governor of the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, approved an innovation development strategy last week slated to run to 2020. “Reaching agreement between government, science and business on this issue is of utmost importance. The system we are building has to address two existing weaknesses in Russian innovation: insufficient coordination as well as weak …
Code4Country, a two-day jointly sponsored US-Russian programming contest, or “codeathon,” took place on 24 -25 September, pitting national programmer teams against each other in a battle to produce innovative tools that enable greater transparency and more open government.
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom, US software giant Microsoft, and top Russian enterprise software publisher 1S signed agreements to jointly develop cloud computing projects. Appointed in March by the Russian government to develop a national cloud computing platform by 2015, Rostelecom announced its intention to invest more than ten billion rubles (approximately $357 million) into …
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A list of Russian governmental bodies ranked by their IT expenditures was published last month by CNews.ru, a resource covering the IT and telecom markets. In 2011, total spending by 71 government bodies tracked by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media is expected to amount to 83.18 billion rubles, or $2.81 billion. Of this …
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Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom has been accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of involvement in the misappropriation of 300 million rubles, approximately $1 million, from the government funded Electronic Russia program.
The Russian Ministry for Economic Development adopted earlier this month its final schedule for the launch of its project for universal electronic cards for all Russians in 2012. In accordance with a Federal law adopted in July, 2010, these universal electronic cards are to be provided to all Russian citizens. The cards will be configured …
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed executive orders yesterday establishing procedures for online publication of activity reports from Federal ministries and agencies.
National telecom operator Rostelecom and Irkutsk city authorities signed an agreement last week for the deployment of Rostelecom’s e-government solutions in the city, TASS-Telecom reported citing company sources. Similar agreements have been signed earlier with municipal authorities in Siberian cities of Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk and Omsk.
Moscow’s city government formally adopted last week a $11 billion informatization program, following one month of public discussions. Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin underlined the “systemic” approach of the program. He pledged to provide Muscovites with electronic access to “practically all public services, from medical appointments to applications for pensions and subsidies.” In addition, “the regular publication …
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The United Electronic Trading Platform (UETP), a nationwide bidding platform for state purchasing, announced last Tuesday that thousands of companies have joined the Popular Front through its website. Announced last May, the Popular Front is a political initiative aimed at supporting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party in the forthcoming legislative …
