Roman Dzvinko, SPC Businessavtomatika: Sanctions restrictions contributed to the development of the domestic IT sector

Roman Dzvinko: I think, here to be necessary to quote the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to give more correct definition to with what phenomenon we deal: "The digital economy is not the separate industry, in fact, it is new tenor of life".

Fast reduction in cost of technology in combination with Moore's law promotes creation of combinatory effects of technologies, such as artificial intelligence, Big Data, a cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) which influence afterwards how we interact and are engaged in business.

Already today we deal with the Fourth industrial revolution of which the race of digital arms is result. Here most it is important to manage to jump aboard the train until it left the station.

Roman Dzvinko: Annually hundreds of professions appear and disappear because of absolutely different reasons among which: change of taste of the consumer, demographic crisis, migration flows, change of state policy and also "Technology unemployment" about which John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1930. If to speak about the last phenomenon, then It should be noted that as a result of recent researches it was proved that influence of industrial robots promoted pay increase of work of highly qualified specialists and had (has) a negative impact only on employees with low qualification.

For prevention of undesirable risks it is necessary to create more available programs and rates for advanced training and also retraining of people. The digital economy enters the trends, and they dictate us that basic skills of programming will be useful to all.

You should not forget that automation also has the considerable potential for creation of jobs. Digital revolution already created new roles, for example, of managers on optimization of search systems and social networks managers, new organization types - suppliers of cloud computing. The digitization impact also became the catalyst of growth of employment in wider economy. For example, in many developing countries for each work in the field of outsourcing business processes IT services three-four workplaces are also created.

Roman Dzvinko: Threats of cyber security are a serious call for national security, public order and can conduct to negative economic effects.

The approval by the president of the new Information security doctrine was the first and correct step on the way to digital transformation of Russia. The doctrine once again focused our attention to importance of preparation of the country and society to such negative effects as destabilization of an internal political situation and destructive impact of digitalization on crucial objects of the country.

Today the information security is one of the most important directions of the program of development of digital economy, and the reasons for that a little.

First, the modern person, along with the existing reality, plunged into so-called Kiberprostarstvo through which it became easier to affect consciousness of a huge number of people. Secondly, cases of the large-scale hacker attacks became frequent. For example, an attack of the WannaCry virus to the largest enterprises of the country or preparation of cyber attacks to a financial system of the Russian Federation as a result of which essential harm to national economy could be made.

Roman Dzvinko: Sanctions restrictions helped us. They only contributed to the development of the domestic IT sector. But for improvement of infrastructure in general it is necessary to work and work still.

In my opinion it is necessary to take measures for liquidation of legal barriers, to start the program directed to increase in digital literacy of the population and, the most important, to start support of the domestic companies - competence centers in the field of digital technologies.