Gosteh Unified Digital Platform of the Russian Federation

2024

State-owned companies will be able to create their own InformSystems on the Gostech platform

On April 22, 2024, it became known about the decision of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation to provide state-owned companies with the opportunity to use the Gostech platform to create their own information systems. For this, a special section can be formed within the framework of Gostekh - the so-called "sandbox."

According to Interfax, the new section will be isolated from other resources of Gostekha, which develop and host state InformSystems. In the sandbox, state-owned companies will be able to create, develop and operate their specific projects.

The Ministry of Digital Development proposes to provide state-owned companies with the opportunity to use the Gostech platform to create their own information systems

The Ministry of Digital Development believes that the experience of organizing interaction and technology for creating and using state information systems at Gostekh can be used by legal entities with state participation to deploy "their own platform solutions based on the domestic information and telecommunication infrastructure." In this case, Gostech will act as a unified development environment and ecosystem to maintain the functioning of various services.

However, as of April 2024, the issue of financing work on the creation, development and operation of InformSystems of state-owned companies at Gostekh was not resolved. The fact is that, according to the current regulatory legal framework, the work of Gostekh is carried out at the expense of the federal budget. And therefore, "payment for infrastructure technological services and basic platform services for the needs of state-owned companies will be an misuse of budget funds." On the other hand, the state institution "State Technologies," acting as the operator of "Gostekha," will not be able to use the funds that will come from state-owned companies for its own needs. It is proposed to solve the problem by forming a public legal structure that interacts with state-owned companies on commercial terms.^[1]

Development of AI services to find illegal quarries and landfills

In mid-April 2024, it became known that five new environmental services for regional authorities would be launched on the GosTech platform. These are systems under the names "Waste Cadastre," "Ekonadzor," "Ekonmointoring," "Tourism in Specially Protected Natural Areas" and "Ekokarier." Read more here.

The first tools for working with AI will appear on the Gostech platform at the end of 2024

At the end of 2024, approximately in October or November, the first tools for working with artificial intelligence are expected to appear on the Gostech platform. This was announced on April 16 at the conference "Zyfra. Doc" in Salekhard by the project manager of the project office of the PKU "Gostekh" Konstantin Makarenko.

As explained to TAdviser at Gostech PKU, ML Ops tools will be a basic service and will be provided on the platform under a contract with Sberbank. But for this, it is still necessary to pass the guidelines for ML Ops through the interdepartmental working group on architecture and the presidium of the government commission on IT. As of mid-April, the description of the service is under working agreement with vendors.

Sberbank is a technological partner of Gostekha, with which a contract was previously signed for the supply of basic services for the platform, the composition of which may change depending on needs.

The applied typical additional services, which are discussed in the slide above, will be from different vendors, and some of them may become basic, TAdviser was specified in the Gostech PKU.

Now in the process of implementation is also a story with equipment. This is one of the necessary elements for working with AI tools. Since the Gostech platform can be used for state information systems (critical information infrastructure facilities), only domestic equipment with the corresponding certificate of the Ministry of Industry and Trade should be used in it . At the same time, the first GPU-enabled servers in the registry of the Ministry of Industry and Trade appeared only in February 2024.

In the future, various development companies will be able to offer Gostekh their tools for working with AI also within the framework of the State Market, a marketplace for departments on which businesses have the opportunity to place their digital solutions for government agencies. To do this, they will need to finalize their solutions in accordance with the requirements so that they are suitable for use on the Gostech platform. Gosmarket is expected to launch in the near future.

More than a third of federal authorities work at Gostekh

More than a third of federal authorities and 11 pilot projects of Russian regions operate on the Gostech platform. This was Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko announced by the deputy chairman in February 2024.^[2]

The authorities abandoned plans to create a register of military registration on the Gostech platform

On January 22, 2024, it became known that the Russian authorities refused to create a register of military registration on the Gostech platform - instead, the system is planned to be deployed from scratch on the basis of the Gosoblako infrastructure cloud platform. However, this can lead to an increase in the project implementation time. Read more here.

Protected software complex "1C:Enterprise 8.3z" is included in the catalog of digital products of the "GosTech" platform

The first product included in the catalog of digital products of the GosTech platform as an additional one was the 1C: Enterprise 8.3z software package. This was announced on January 18, 2024 by representatives of 1C. Before being included in the catalog, the 1C: Enterprise platform passed all checks for compliance with the requirements for GosTech services, as well as technical tests at the GosTech stand. The expert conclusion of the product test protocol at the stands of GosTech was approved by the Interdepartmental Working Group on Architecture Ministry of Digital Development Russia. Read more here.

FSIS "Sport" - the first InformSystem on the platform "GosTech" - put into commercial operation

The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, as part of the digital transformation of the sphere, launched into commercial operation the federal state information system "Sport," created on the platform "Gostekh." The message about this on January 9, 2024 was published on the official portal of the department. The system contains functionality for both participants and organizers of the field of physical culture and sports. Read more here.

2023

"1C: Enterprise" became the first software product that passed the test for inclusion in the GosTech catalog

The protected software complex "1C:Enterprise 8.3z" was the first software product to be tested for inclusion in the catalog of digital products of the GosTech platform. The product passed all checks for compliance with the requirements for platform services, as well as technical tests at the GosTech stand.

After the approval of the expert opinion of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Architecture Ministry of Digital Development Russia ": 1C Enterprise 8.3z" will be included in the GosTech catalog as an additional platform service, the Gostech PKU reported. This is expected to happen before the end of 2023 (more).

The Ministry of Digital Development will transfer IT systems of regional departments to Gostech

On December 8, 2023, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation published a draft resolution, according to which regional departments and sponsored institutions will be able to create ordinary information systems on the Gostech platform that do not have state status. These can be accounting services, reference information, local document management, etc.

It is noted that the so-called microservice architecture is the basis of Gostekh. It allows you to reuse ready-made software modules to create new systems. At the same time, uniform standards and an iterative approach to development are applied. The initiative of the Ministry of Digital Development assumes that the components created during the introduction of large-scale state information systems (GIS) can be reused in relatively small projects. These can be, for example, modules for identifying users, protecting information, etc.

The draft resolution provides for the possibility of creating, developing and operating on a single digital platform of the Russian Federation "Gostekh" not only GIS, but also other information systems operated by state bodies or extra-budgetary funds, as well as budgetary or state institutions subordinate to the above persons, the Ministry of Digital Development documents say.

This approach is expected to reduce states overall costs IT infrastructure and help standardize the technologies that are used in the public sector. The proposed changes will help to consolidate the requirements for the architecture and technologies for the creation, development and operation of GIS, as well as introduce the concept of a user (client) segment of IT systems. At the same time, the Ministry of Digital Development will be able to attract its subordinate structure to perform the functions of the center for. cyber security^[3]

Mishustin instructed to create a system for accounting for breeding animals at Gostekh

On December 7, 2023, the Russian government announced that the Federal State Information and Analytical System of Breeding Resources (FGIAS PR) would be created on the Gostech platform to take into account all types of breeding animals. The corresponding order was given by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Read more here.

The Ministry of Digital Development will create an AI platform based on GosTech

The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation should create an AI platform accessible to the authorities based on GosTech. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin gave the corresponding order to the department following the results of the strategic session on the development of artificial intelligence held on September 26, 2023. The Cabinet of Ministers published a list of instructions on November 22, 2023. Read more here.

The Ministry of Digital Development will allow Gostekh to work with certain types of secrets protected by law

On October 23, 2023, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation announced on the official portal of draft regulatory legal acts a draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation concerning the creation, development and operation of state information systems (GIS) using a single digital platform "Gostekh." The agency proposes to make Gostech an operator of GIS containing certain types of secrets protected by law.

The document assumes that the Gostech platform and its individual tools and technologies can be used to create GIS, which "provides for the level of information protection provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation in order to protect secrets protected by law." The proposed changes are expected to allow the use of Gostech in order to create and test certain technical solutions in the field of defense, investigation and legal proceedings based on the decisions of the heads of the relevant state authorities.

At the same time, the draft decree emphasizes that the creation, development and operation of state information systems using the Gostech platform is not carried out if they contain information constituting a state secret. Decisions on the deployment of GIS are made by the head of the state body - the functional customer.

The Ministry of Digital Development will note that the implementation of the provisions provided for by the document will not entail negative socio-economic, financial and other consequences, including for business and other economic entities, and will not affect the achievement of the goals of state programs and will not affect the income or expenditures of the budget system of the Russian Federation. The project will also not require additional funding from budget funds.^[4]

GIS with public state services is transferred to Gostech

In mid-October 2023, it became known that at meetings with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, projects for transferring state information systems (GIS) with public state services to the Gostech platform were being approved. The initiative will contribute to achieving "digital equality," that is, solving the problem of lack of budget funds for individual authorities and regions without losing the quality of public services.

According to the presidential decree, from RUSSIAN FEDERATION Vladimir Putin January 1, 2024, the regions need to create and commission GIS on the basis of Gostekha. By the end of 2023, the first stage of state services in the field of,,, health care formations transport sports and construction will be transferred. Migration is carried out by 24 federal and 11 regional authorities. At the same time, according to the newspaper "," Kommersant at meetings with Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshenko, projects for the transfer of GIS to Gostech for 2024 are being defended.

The Federal State Institution "State Technologies," which accompanies "Gostekh," notes that it is not planned to force the migration of GIS with public state services to this platform. The systems are transferred on the basis of "feasibility assessment, which includes assessment of GIS technological maturity, economic feasibility of Gostech use and GIS significance assessment in terms of mass availability of services, significance of information, compliance with national development priorities." In other words, the possibility of independent development of individual GIS remains.

At the same time, the deployment of Gostekh is associated with certain difficulties, which are explained by the formed geopolitical situation. This is a tightening of security requirements, certification of domestic equipment and software, as well as a shortage of data center resources. It is expected that Gostech will be able to use two large data centers to work with the most resource-intensive GIS - Sberbank in Skolkovo and Rostelecom in St. Petersburg.^[5]

A cyber attack response and monitoring center is being created for the GosTech platform

The publication of tenders for work on the creation of a center for monitoring and responding to computer attacks of the Gostech platform has begun. The customer is the Integral Research Institute subordinate to the Ministry of Digital Development. This was announced on September 28, 2023 by Kommersant.

By the end of the year, the ministry plans to allocate about 450 million rubles for this project. It is necessary to create a center by the end of 2024. Now state IT systems are migrating to Gostech, and the threat of cyber attacks is growing. In the opinion, although the budget corresponds to the scope of work, it will be extremely difficult to organize monitoring of such a number of different systems.

Since the beginning of September, the Integral Research Institute began publishing tenders for work to strengthen the infrastructure of Gostekha. For example, on September 13, a tender was published for the development of a module for "centralized collection of information on the detection, prevention and elimination of the consequences of computer attacks" of the Gostech cybersecurity center worth 108.3 million rubles.

Now the main state center for incident response is the state system for detecting, preventing and eliminating the consequences of computer attacks by State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks. According to one of the experts, one of the conditions for the migration of any state information system to Gostech is its connection to State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks.

The main goal is to organize a head center for all subjects of the State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks within the framework of Gostekh. To do this, you need a "single information window" and coordination of actions for all platform participants in their interaction with the NCCC, - explained in the Research Institute "Integral."

The threats of cyber attacks on government services are becoming more and more real. Government agencies accounted for 14% of the total number of companies affected by the data breach in the second quarter of 2023, according to Positive Technologies. The Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Agriculture and others have already launched their own response centers.^[6]

Monitoring of public transport in Russia will be transferred to GosTech

On August 17, 2023, it became known that a new public transport monitoring system would be created on the basis of the Russian digital platform GosTech.

According to the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Vitaly Savelyev, the project provides for the organization of data collection on passenger transportation according to unified standards. The system will receive information about the schedule, interregional routes, the volume of transport work performed, as well as the state of the fleet of all vehicles. The designed system will provide "paperless provision of services for establishing routes and reducing the number of documents, the introduction of digital profiles of carriers and integration with regional systems."

Savelyev noted that the Ministry of Transport strives for the maximum "whitewashing" of transportation. This should be facilitated by modern methods of digitalization, such as tracking traffic on routes online, monitoring passenger traffic, cashless fare payment, as well as an automated dispatch control system.

It is noted that in terms of the development of urban electric passenger transport in Moscow, an important element is the infrastructure, which requires updating. At the same time, a network of charging stations for electric vehicles is actively developing in the Russian capital. By mid-August 2023, their number reaches approximately 3 thousand, including municipal and private. However, the problem is that they all run on different digital platforms, through which motorists order the amount of capacity and charging time. This creates inconvenience and confusion. Therefore, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin believes that it is necessary to establish uniform federal requirements for the information systems of electric station owners so that any motorist can "freely refuel using unified approaches to information systems."^[7]

Approval of a public offer to conclude an agreement on the transition to the GosTech platform

The public offer on the conclusion of an agreement on the distribution of responsibility for the creation, development, operation of state information systems on a single digital platform of the Russian Federation "GosTech" was approved by the Presidium of the Government Commission on Digital Development. This was announced on July 26, 2023 by the Gostech company.

The agreement defines the conditions, procedure for interaction and responsibility of the platform operator, department and GIS operator (if this is not a department) when creating, developing and operating GIS on the GosTech platform. According to Anton Bechin, deputy director of the GosTech PKU, the offer format was chosen to shorten the time for joining the platform.

In some cases, the department transfers the rights of the GIS operator to a subordinate institution or other company. In this case, we sign an agreement with both the department and the GIS operator. At the same time, the department ensures the implementation of information protection requirements and is responsible for the quality and consistency of data in accordance with the Methodological Recommendations for organizing a data management system for state information systems on the GosTech platform, - commented Anton Bechin.

According to the approved document, the platform operator, which is the GosTech PKU, will provide:

• uninterrupted operation of GIS on the platform in terms of infrastructure technological and basic services of the GosTech platform
• organization and control over the implementation of measures to protect information
• methodological support of the GIS operator for the development of information security regulations
• control over ensuring the level of information security at the level of GIS application software on the platform
• maintaining the quality of the provision of public services provided by GIS in terms of infrastructure technological and basic platform services

In turn, the GIS operator is responsible for:

• uninterrupted operation of GIS in a part that does not belong to the infrastructure technological, basic and additional services of the GosTech platform
• protection of information in GIS in terms of user segment and GIS application software
• development, approval, signing and execution of GIS information security regulations on the GosTech platform and GIS operation regulations
• availability and quality of public services implemented through GIS on the GosTech platform

Rosleskhoz transfers its main GIS to Gostech for 1.27 billion rubles

On July 18, 2023, it became known that the Federal Forestry Agency of Russia (Rosleskhoz) allocated an additional 1.27 billion rubles for the creation of a super-scale federal state information system for the forest complex (FGIS LK). It plans to deploy it completely on a single digital platform "Gostech." Read more here.

First of all, state services will be transferred to Gostech by the end of the year

By the end of 2023, the first stage of state services in the field of, health care,, formations transport sports, construction will be transferred. These are services of 24 federal authorities and 8 pilot regions. Dmitry Chernyshenko This was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister on July 17, 2023 during a meeting with the leaders of the digital transformation of the federal and regional levels.

As part of this event, the first wave of projects for the implementation of services of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation on the Gostech platform was defended, in which the leaders of the digital transformation of a number of regions took part. The information systems of the first stage for transfer to Gostech included two decisions from the Nizhny Novgorod region - the information system "Ensuring urban planning activities" and the information system "Property Management," the press service of the Nizhny Novgorod government said.

Both solutions are primarily aimed at improving the investment climate. For example, the system for ensuring urban planning activities has significantly simplified and accelerated the work related to obtaining various permits. In the near future, it is planned to translate state functions and services related to regional state construction supervision into electronic form and exclude paper interaction. We have also implemented the principles of transparency and clarity in the property management system. The transfer to Gostech gives new opportunities for the development of systems, - said the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin.

As part of the protections, a targeted service architecture was approved, providing for the reuse of ready-made components of the Gostech platform, the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies and the optimization of business processes of authorities, the Cabinet said in a statement.

It also states that in 2024 the transfer of the second wave of projects to Gostech will begin, and their protection will take place in the third quarter of 2023. It is assumed that by 2026 at least 101 services will operate on the platform.^[8]

Rostelecom selected the only GIS supplier on the GosTech platform

On July 3, 2023, it became known that by order of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Roste lecom company was determined by the only supplier for state contracts for the creation, operation and development of state information systems (GIS) on the GosTech platform.

The unified digital platform "GosTech" is a cloud solution for federal and regional authorities, with the help of which you can quickly and efficiently create GIS and various services. It is noted that the platform is based entirely on domestic data centers, and the availability of systems is ensured at the level of 99.99%. The infrastructure is certified according to the level of K1 UZ-1, which allows you to store personal data and process information constituting a medical secret.

According to Interfax, the government order says that Rostelecom has been selected as the only supplier of GIS on the GosTech platform under contracts concluded in 2023-2024. The customer for them will be the Ministry of Digital Development or its subordinate state institution "State Technologies." When performing work, Rostelecom may involve subcontractors. At the same time, Rostelecom itself must fulfill at least 10% of the total value of obligations under the relevant agreements.

According to Ministry of Digital Development Yury Zarubin, Deputy Director of the Program and Project Coordination Department, by July 2023, more than 1,000 have been created in Russia. GIS. At the same time, 85% of them have identical functionality: this means that 850 such systems contain duplicate functions. GosTech will make it possible to reuse technological and applied services and quickly bring them to the market. It is also said that during the transition period - until December 31, 2023 - it is planned to put into operation the Gosmarket state information system and the GosTech management system, develop standard solutions for ensuring information security, form a catalog of digital products and develop the architecture of industry domains. From 2024, full operation of the platform will begin.^[9]

Departments will be able to independently transfer their systems to GosTech

On June 28, 2023, the Russian government approved amendments to the regulation on the unified digital platform GosTech. The document, among other things, provides for the introduction of additional powers of the Ministry of Digital Development to ensure measures related to the development of state information systems (GIS) on the basis of GosTech.

In accordance with the adopted rules, the authority acts as a functional customer who puts forward requirements for the capabilities and parameters of GIS. At the same time, the Ministry of Digital Development assumes the authority of a technical customer - the department buys work and monitors the implementation of the project. Thus, uniform quality standards are applied to save budget and reduce the time for the transition of GIS to GosTech. The resolution regulates in detail the interaction of functional and technical customers.

In addition, the Ministry of Digital Development, due to the budget allocated to it, will be able to centrally carry out the necessary measures to create, develop and operate GIS of other government agencies and extra-budgetary funds on the GosTech platform. At the same time, departments can independently transfer their systems to GosTech if they have the necessary means to carry out such work. The Ministry of Digital Development will provide technical support.

The document also provides for an assessment of the economic and (or) technological feasibility of creating and developing federal GIS on the basis of GosTech. In general, as noted, the platform provides an unprecedented level of cybersecurity. The Ministry of Digital Development of transfers or grants rights to the results of intellectual activity created as part of the implementation of measures, and also provides expertise on the compliance of technical and design solutions with the methodological and technological principles of the creation, development and operation of GIS on the GosTech platform^[10]

Former deputy head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Alexei Kozyrev became the head of the Gostech program at Sberbank

Alexey Kozyrev was appointed vice president of Sberbank, two sources told TAdviser on June 23, 2023 and confirmed in Sberbank itself. Read more here.

Alexey Kozyrev was appointed vice-president-head of the GosTech program of Sberbank. He will oversee strategic program management, technological development and the definition of the architectural landscape, as well as building strategic partnerships, developing client experience and creating additional services within the program. Alexey Kozyrev will report to the senior vice president, head of the Technologies block of Sberbank Andrei Belevtsev, - said TAdviser in the bank.

Read more here.

Ulyanovsk region transfers all state systems to GosTech

All state information systems in the region will be transferred to the GosTech platform. The roadmap for the project was signed at a meeting of Chairman Governments of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko and Governor Ulyanovsk region Alexei Russkikh on June 16, 2023.

Alexey Russkikh stressed that the implementation will increase information security and resiliency of state and municipal information systems and services, save budget funds, as well as increase the digital maturity of the region.

Now the region has analyzed the priority directions for replacing industry solutions and software with Russian analogues in the mechanical engineering industry and formed a list of 15 IT companies that are candidates for the development of domestic solutions for industrial competence centers. This will give a new impetus to development both for the regional IT sector and for industrial enterprises, - added the head of the region on June 16, 2023.

Dmitry Chernyshenko, in turn, thanked the governor and the government for the effective implementation of the president's order:

Thank you very much for effectively fulfilling the instructions of the President, his decree that by 2025 the regional executive bodies should transfer their information systems to the GosTech platform.

Chernyshenko noted that the GosTech platform has an unprecedented level of cybersecurity, which allows you to very effectively use both cloud and computing resources, but, most importantly, in fact, saves regional authorities from the need to create their own systems, since it establishes the principle of reusing the best practices that are available. Details of the signed document were not disclosed by June 19, 2023.^[11]

How to assess the economic and technological feasibility of creating state information systems on the Gostech platform. A manual has been published

In May 2023, the Presidium of the Legal Commission on Digital Development, the use of IT to improve the quality of life and business conditions approved methodological recommendations for assessing the feasibility of creating and developing state information systems (GIS) on a single digital platform "Gostech" (download PDF). They describe the general procedure for assessing technological economic and technological feasibility and in detail - assessments according to certain criteria.

The general order of evaluation, in particular, includes sequential steps:

• determination of the level of technological maturity of GIS and the presence of technological risks;
• determining the economic efficiency of the Gostech platform;
• assessment of GIS significance;
• determining the priority of measures for the creation, development and operation of GIS on the Gostech platform;
• making a decision on the feasibility of creating or developing GIS on the Gostech platform;
• inclusion of the system in the plan for creation and development of systems on the Gostech platform.

The largest volume of the document falls on recommendations for assessing technological maturity, including such criteria as:

• the scope of measures taken to protect the information contained in the GIS;
• the degree of dependence of GIS operation on the use of foreign programs for electronic computers and databases, IT and hardware;
• reliability of GIS operation and their availability to users;
• provision of GIS with infrastructure necessary for their operation;
• scalability;
• clientocentricity;
• maturity of GIS architecture and software process components.

To assess the economic feasibility, the methodological recommendations provide, among other things, a formula for calculating the total costs of creating, developing and operating GIS on the Gostech platform, a methodology for calculating the costs of operating measures, and the costs of the authority to use commercial additional platform services.

The Ministry of Digital Development will postpone for a year the launch of public services on the GosTech platform

The launch date of the Unified System for the Provision of State and Municipal Services (FGIS PGS) on the GosTech platform will be postponed by a year - from July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2024. This is stated in the draft government decree posted Ministry of Digital Development on the website of regulatory legal acts. The Kommersant newspaper writes with reference to this document on May 23, 2023.

The explanatory note notes that the implementation of the project in 2023 is impossible, since the Ministry of Digital Development only contributes it to interdepartmental approval. In turn, the office of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko told the publication that the shift in deadlines is associated with a revision of the format for placing IT systems on the platform.

Instead of partial integration, the FSIS ASG will completely switch to the platform, which takes significantly more time, and will allow synchronizing the transition work with those FNIVs that will switch to the platform in 2023-2024, they noted there.

At the same time, several sources told the newspaper that bureaucratic twists and turns are InformSystem substantiated: the fact is that the operator of GosTech is Sber, and the module that ensures the operation of the FGIS PGS on the portal of state services is a subsidiary of Rostelecom.

According to Kommersant's interlocutors, the delay in the "relocation" of the FSIS from one ecosystem and its integration into another are due to the technical difficulties of sharing risks and responsibility between the previous and future "holders" - without a clearly fixed procedure, both parties can receive claims related to both possible data leaks and the operability of the GIS as a whole.

The FSIS PGS is needed to create and configure the processes for providing public services in electronic form, a representative of the Ministry of Digital Development explained to Vedomosti. In fact, this is separate InformSystems module that allows government agencies to collect information about the service requested by the applicant and make a decision on its provision, he added.^[12]

Mishustin approved the only public procurement contractor for information security for Gostekha

In May 2023, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree approving the federal state budgetary institution Integral Research Institute as the sole executor of purchases of services carried out Ministry of Digital Development Russia in 2023-2024 to detect, prevent and eliminate the consequences of computer attacks, as well as computer incident response services on user (client) segments of state information systems located on a single digital platform "GosTech."

According to a document published on the official portal of legal information, the Integral Research Institute will provide response to incidents on client segments of state information systems on the platform in 2023-2024. The order also defines the institute as the sole executor of purchases of Russian Ministry of Digital Development for the detection, prevention and elimination of the consequences of cyber attacks.

The deadline for concluding state contracts with research institutes for the purchase of such services is December 31, 2024. Integral may attract co-executors provided that at least 50% of the total value of obligations under state contracts is fulfilled personally.

Integral is a subordinate organization Ministry of Digital Development Russia. The list of areas of its activities includes the implementation of research and development in the field of software industry and applied informatics, as well as the maintenance of state bibliographic accounting, ensuring the safety and use of a mandatory federal copy of programs for electronic computers and databases. The Institute ensures the protection of information constituting state secrets.

Government of the Russian Federation Order of May 15, 2023 No. 1235-r

The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation will take over the functions of an IT buyer for ministries when switching to Gostech

On April 11, 2023, it became known that the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Digital Media of the Russian Federation) intends to expand its sphere of influence, taking up issues of financing government spending on IT.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the department has already developed a draft resolution that details the mechanism for transferring state information systems (GIS) to the unified digital platform Gostekh. The Ministry of Digital Development plans to assume the authority to carry out the necessary purchases at the expense of the state program "Digital Economy." It is assumed that the authorities will act as customers and determine the requirements for the functionality of GIS platforms, and the Ministry of Digital Development is proposed to purchase the relevant work and monitor the implementation.

This approach will allow you to apply uniform quality standards and typical components for IT systems. This will help save money and speed up the transition of government agencies to new information resources. In addition, the Ministry of Digital Development will be able to prevent the purchase of repeating IT products.

According to the newspaper, a plan Kommersant has been prepared providing for the transfer of 59 priority systems of departments and constituent entities of the Russian Federation. This list will be clarified in the process of interdepartmental coordination. For procurement, it is planned to create a project office with the obligatory participation of high-ranking heads of departments and the Ministry of Digital Development, as well as responsible persons of the supplier. In accordance with the document, the department is obliged to conclude an agreement on information interaction with the Ministry of Digital Development within 15 calendar days after the inclusion of GIS in the plan. The new mechanism, if approved by the government, will begin to operate before the end of 2023. At the same time, the Gostech platform should become an environment for digitalization, states designed to reduce government spending on the creation of GIS by reusing the modules of already implemented IT projects. "^[13]

Putin signed a decree on the use of the Gostech platform for state information systems

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the creation, development and operation of state information systems using a single digital platform "Gostech." On April 1, 2023, the document was published on the legal information portal^[14] of the^[15]

From April 1, the government decides to ensure the functioning of Gostekh. The creation, development and operation of federal state information systems using the platform must be carried out from this date, and regional state information systems - from January 1, 2024, follows from the decree.

The creation of state information systems on the platform should be carried out based on the results of the assessment of economic and technological feasibility, carried out in accordance with the methodological recommendations, and in accordance with the plan. The latter is formed, among other things, on the basis of the proposals of the Federal Investment Fund, state extra-budgetary funds and executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The plan defines the timing of the creation and development of state information systems using Gostekh, and also provides for a phased transition to the use of this platform. The duration of each stage is three years.

According to the decree, the operator of the Gostech platform concludes agreements with the operators of state information systems on the distribution of responsibility between these persons. The same agreements determine, among other things, the responsibility of the operator of the Gostech platform. He is responsible for the uninterrupted functioning of state information systems in terms of the functioning of the platform, for the confidentiality and security of the information processed in these systems, including data, for non-discriminatory access of government agencies to the platform, etc.

The document states that the creation, development and operation of state information systems using Gostekh is not carried out if they contain information constituting state secrets, official secrets in the field of defense, the secret of the investigation and in a number of other cases.

The Government of the Russian Federation is prescribed to provide for budgetary allocations for the implementation of this decree when forming a draft federal budget for the next fiscal year and for the planning period, and for the regions to do the same when forming their budgets.

Also, the government must within 10 months ensure the introduction into the legislation of the Russian Federation of the changes necessary for the development of the Gostech platform.

Mishustin extended for a year to check the security of GIS for their transfer to Gostech

In March 2023, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree that extended for a year the verification of the security of state information systems (GIS) for their transfer to the Gostech platform - until March 30, 2024. The document clarified the goals of the experiment - these also include assessing the level of security of state information systems and their components as part of the creation (development) of a single digital platform of the Russian Federation "GosTech" and taking measures to eliminate the shortcomings (vulnerabilities) identified in state information systems.

According to Kommersant, in fact, this decree indicates that the transfer of GIS to Gostech for security reasons will require more effort and time than expected. At the same time, in Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, the newspaper called the reasons for the extension of the GIS security audit increased attention to their security issues and the need to "approve a list of measures to eliminate GIS vulnerabilities." The Ministry of Digital Development also explained the extension of the experiment by the fact that "the information security requirements have been improved, the GIS will be checked for compliance with them even more thoroughly."

It is assumed that the GIS of individual authorities, in respect of which they were not provided, will fall under the checks, however, changing the timing of the experiment will not affect the implementation of the decree in any way and will not change plans to transfer GIS to Gostech.

To independently analyze the level of security of GIS, to check the practical possibility of exploiting vulnerabilities, Ministry of Digital Development previously concluded a state contract with LLC Visum"" in the amount of about 340 million rubles. According to Ministry of Digital Development, by 2023 there are more than 500 federal and 2.5 thousand regional state information systems in the Russian Federation.^[16]

Recognition of the project as successful by the Government of the Russian Federation

The Russian government recognized the experiment on the creation of the GosTech system as successful. Vasily Shvezhkin, head of the State Technologies PKU, announced this on March 14, 2023 at the TAdviser IT Government Day 2023 conference.

According to him, in the near future a plan will be formed for the transfer of state information systems (GIS) to the Gostech platform.

Now there is an active formation of a portfolio of projects for the "relocation" of resources. We expect that the government will approve the schedule for the transfer of GIS to the GosTech platform in March [2022], "he said.

Vasily Shvezhkin recalled that in January 2023, the criteria for the technological maturity of GIS were approved.

A number of information systems have been developed for a very long time and depend on foreign solutions. It is important for us to agree on the transition of systems taking into account technological changes, - said the head of the State Technologies PKU, whose words are quoted in the official Telegram channel GosTekha

Since January 1, 2023, a decree on a single digital platform of the Russian Federation "GosTech" has been in effect in Russia. The scope of the system is infrastructural, organizational, technological and documentary support of the life cycle processes of state information systems (GIS), the use of digital products of the GosTech platform in the form of application services operating in the cloud computing infrastructure. Local governments, state (municipal) enterprises and institutions, state corporations, state companies, public law companies, as well as business companies, more than 50% of whose authorized capital is in state (municipal) ownership, have the right to decide on the use of the GosTech platform to implement the life cycle processes of their information systems.^[17]

Ministry of Education and Science transfers work to Gostech

The Ministry of Education and Science is transferring work to the Gostech technological platform. This was announced in mid-February 2023 by Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education Daria Kiryanova. According to her, Gostech should help create various services for universities.

As Kiryanova noted, before the start of the special operation in Ukraine, about 80% of all software licenses in Russian universities were foreign.

When the licenses ran out or [licenses] were revoked, the problem arose: what to do next? How to exist? - she complained (quote on Vedomosti).

Kiryanova did not name the share of foreign software in universities by mid-February 2023. He noted that domestic software appeared, but solves the tasks set "very narrowly." According to Kiryanova, the "crown of creation" will be the register of software solutions available to universities. By February 2023, the Ministry of Education and Science is already discussing with Russian IT companies such international practices as academic licenses, in accordance with which universities will be able to purchase domestic software with significant discounts.

Migration to Gostech is carried out not only by the Ministry of Education and Science. On February 16, 2023, the deputy head of the Ministry of Digital Industry Grigory Borisenko announced that the department was going to connect about 13 information systems of federal authorities to Gostekh by the end of the year. In addition, the department's plans include connecting more than 40 authorities to the platform, but he did not specify the period for which this will be done.

Borisenko stressed that by mid-February 2023, the Ministry of Digital Development begins to form not only a single platform in public administration, but also a single pool of data information, which, in his opinion, will become more accessible and suitable for switching to a management model, where most decisions are made based on actual digital data.^[18]

Recommendations for computing infrastructure and cloud platform providers approved

The Presidium Government Commission on Digital Development approved methodological recommendations for presenting requirements for providers of computing infrastructure and cloud platforms in terms of the information technology support technologies they use. information security This was reported on February 1, 2023 in the Telegram GosTech channel.

We are talking about methodological recommendations intended for customers of state IT systems (GIS) created on the GosTech platform. They shall be used in preparation of technical assignments for suppliers. Among other things, the document spelled out:

• licenses and permissions that the supplier must have
• regulatory requirements in the field of information security
• requirements for redundancy and disaster tolerance
• requirements for data centers, resource monitoring, access mode
• cloud platform certification requirements
• requirements for the architecture of the provider's cloud platform, its subsystems
• requirements for system-wide and application software of the platform.^[19]

According to the published document, communication channels between the supplier's data centers should be protected by means implementing cryptographic information conversion algorithms that have passed compliance verification in the form of certification, and the infrastructure should ensure uninterrupted functioning and safety of information processed on computing and technological resources in the following emergency situations:

• complete power outage;
• malfunction or failure of communication channels;
• complete or partial failure of hardware including, but not limited to, failures and failures of hard disk drives.

METHODOLOGICAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRESENTATION OF REQUIREMENTS TO SUPPLIERS OF COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE AND CLOUD PLATFORMS IN TERMS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATION SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES USED BY THEM

A methodology for the development of state information systems using Scrum, Kanban and extreme programming has been published

On January 23, 2023, guidelines for organizing the production process for the development of state information systems were published, taking into account the application of an iterative approach to development. Earlier, they were approved by the presidium of the IT Commission on Digital Development, the use of IT to improve the quality of life and business. You can download the document here.

The document is a continuation of the PP-676 on the requirements for the procedure for the creation, development, commissioning, operation and decommissioning of state information systems. The methodological recommendations present the features of the production process of iterative development of systems, detailing the key provisions of the PP-676.

The provisions of this document apply to the activities of government agencies (departments), their subordinate organizations, private partners in accordance with public-private partnership agreements, concessionaires in accordance with concession agreements, organizations authorized by regulatory legal acts to create systems, commercial organizations performing or planning to carry out work on the creation and development of systems within the framework of state contracts and organizations of other organizational and legal forms.

The recommendations aim to form for all departments and other organizations mentioned above a unified understanding of methods and practices for creating and developing systems using an iterative approach. Another goal of the methodological recommendations is to develop proposals for the use of an iterative approach depending on the scale of the systems being created and the complexity of organizing work on their creation and development.

The recommendations are aimed at creating systems in the interests of providing public services, state functions, including control and supervision activities in the context of changing customer needs; shorter terms and improved quality of providing government services to customers using created systems. In addition, they should help to create and develop systems within established budgets and with minimal risks of failure to achieve goals.

Methodological recommendations cover the procedure for creating and developing the system - from the model of requirements for it to the implementation of the first stage of the system, as well as the stages of planning and execution, checking the work performed and adjustment.

In the course of work on the creation and development of systems, departments are recommended to use interconnected methods and practices of iterative development - Scrum, Kanban and extreme programming, lean production and DevSecOps. How to do this is also detailed in the document.

Customer focus is at the forefront of developing systems using these methods and practices. These methods and practices are collectively aimed at providing a stream of value creation for the client, the guidelines say.

Also, during the creation and development of systems, it is necessary to carry out measures aimed at preventing the emergence and/or elimination of software vulnerabilities established by the legislation of the Russian Federation and current regulatory acts in the field of protecting processed information and creating systems in a secure version, including those specified in the document "Methodological Recommendations for Ensuring the Development of Safe Software at the State Technical Center."

GIS of eco-monitoring in Russia is deployed on the Gostech platform

The creation of a state environmental monitoring system was discussed at a joint meeting of the State Duma committees on ecology, natural resources and environmental protection and on information policy, information technology and communications. Information about this was published on January 18, 2023 on the official website of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia.

The system will be deployed on the Gostech platform and will provide data collection from all sources for 15 existing and one promising subsystem of environmental monitoring. Read more here.

2022

The government approved the regulation on the Gostech platform

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree approving the provisions on the unified digital platform GosTech. The corresponding document was published on December 20, 2022.

The GosTech platform is being created in order to reduce the timing of the creation, development of state information systems on the GosTech platform, increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes for the creation and development of state information systems on the GosTech platform<...>, ensure a high level of quality and safety of digital products of the GosTech platform and support the development of domestic solutions in the field of information technology, the provision says.

It is planned to unify information security mechanisms on the platform. The security of services operating in the cloud infrastructure will be ensured at all stages of the GIS life cycle.

It is also reported that GosTech will be able to use local governments, state-owned enterprises, state corporations and state-owned companies, more than 50% of which belong to the state.

According to the document, the feasibility and mandatory creation, development and operation of GIS on the GosTech platform are determined taking into account the technological feasibility and financial effectiveness of using the GosTech platform for the relevant GIS during the Ministry of Digital Development of assessment of the feasibility of conducting informatization measures and (or) their financing.

The operator of the GosTech platform will be the Ministry of Digital Development. By decision of the department, these functions can be transferred to the state treasury institution determined by it.

The Cabinet of Ministers has determined that the functions of the platform operator are performed by the Ministry of Digital Development. The agency can also transfer them to a state treasury institution.

Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation of 16.12.2022 No. 2338 "On Approval of the Regulation on the Unified Digital Platform of the Russian Federation"GosTech, "on amending the Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 6, 2015 No. 676 and invalidating paragraph 6 of the amendments, which are introduced into the requirements for the procedure for creation, development, commissioning, operation and decommissioning of state information systems and further storage of information contained in their databases, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated May 11, 2017 No. 555 "

The Legal Commission approved the guidelines for the operation of state information systems and secure development at GosTech

On December 19, 2022 , GosTech PKU published on its website a number of methodological recommendations necessary for the functioning of the platform: on the management of the dynamic infrastructure of GosTech, on the operation of state information systems and ensuring security in the development of software on the GosTech platform.

The documents were approved in December by the presidium of the legal commission on digital development, the use of IT to improve the quality of life and the conditions for doing business.

Guidelines "Standard for Dynamic Infrastructure Management" of the GosTech platform describes the mandatory requirements for service providers - IaaS services, which are planned to be included in a single digital platform, as well as requirements for configuring the infrastructure as code. This will ensure automated basic preparation of the infrastructure for hosting copies of the GosTech platform and state information systems. Support for dynamic infrastructure configuration should allow providers providing infrastructure as a service to participate in the placement of state information systems at facilities under their control.

The document also specifies the requirements for the process of providing access to resources at the provider level and isolating the system's industrial operation circuit from other GosTekha circuits.

Methodological recommendations on the operation of state information systems (GIS) on the GosTech platform determine the minimum set of organizational and technical requirements for the operation procedure, requirements for the composition of GIS operation services, main technological operations during operation, indicators of the quality of GIS support services, as well as the composition and content of the set of operational documentation for GIS.

The methodological recommendations include the rules for organizing support, as well as recommended templates of mandatory documents.

As for the methodological recommendations on safety issues when developing software on the GosTech platform, they contain recommendations on the implementation of the development requirements established by GOST R 56939. If confirmed vulnerabilities and deficiencies of programs of critical and high level of influence in newly created software are identified, during its testing by tools it is prohibited to transfer such software to the productive environment of GIS operation on the GosTech platform.

At the same time, the use of borrowed components (libraries, frameworks, interpreted scripts, etc.) of third-party developers is allowed only if the texts of their source code are available. The exception is the components included in the platform in accordance with the methodological recommendations on security issues when developing software on the GosTech platform and the methodological recommendations for including services in GosTech.

The government approved the regulation on the GosTech and Gosmarket management system

On November 30, 2022, the government approved a regulation on two federal state information systems related to GosTech - "Management of the Unified Digital Platform of the Russian Federation GosTech" and "Gosmarket." It was posted on the official Internet portal of legal information on December 6 and comes into force on January 1, 2023^[20] of the Government of the^[21]

According to the provision, the system "Management of the Unified Digital Platform of the Russian Federation GosTech" ensures the fulfillment of a number of functions in the creation, development and operation of state information systems on the GosTech platform. Thus, it provides tools for organizing collaboration and designing domain architecture with integration with the automated pipeline for developing software of state information systems, as well as tools of the most automated pipeline.

The system also provides access to infrastructure for information technology interaction of information systems used to provide state and municipal services and perform state and municipal functions in electronic form. It also provides automated quality control of software for state information systems on the GosTech platform, tools and services for operation processes.

Among the functions are support for the possibility of sharing the components of the GosTech platform by several users and the provision of tools for integration with digital products of platform suppliers.

"Management of the unified digital platform of the Russian Federation GosTech" interacts with a number of other information systems, including a unified public procurement system, SMEV, federal GIS for the collection, processing and storage of algorithms and programs, etc.

The system "Management of the Unified Digital Platform of the Russian Federation GosTech" does not allow the processing of information constituting a state secret, according to the regulation approved by the government.

The second system - Gosmarket - ensures the formation and maintenance of a catalog of digital products of the GosTech platform and control of the compliance of the digital product with methodological recommendations approved by the presidium of the legal commission for digital development. It also allows you to search and preliminary familiarization with the functionality of digital products of the GosTech platform for users.

It also provides a designer of draft terms of reference and templates for the provision of digital products of the GosTech platform, a tool for preparing a feasibility study for the creation and development of state information systems on the GosTech platform. The system also controls the quality and volume of actual consumption of digital platform products and monitors their demand.

One of the principles of the "State Market" is reuse. The system provides mechanisms for the reuse of standard software components of state information systems, digital products included in the GosTech platform catalog.

Among the principles, technological independence is also indicated: software and hardware complexes that are part of the State Market must comply with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of import substitution.

The state customer for the creation, development and operation of the system of both state information systems and their operator is the Ministry of Digital Development. It is responsible for the creation, development, operation, monitoring of the functioning parameters "Management of the Unified Digital Platform of the Russian Federation GosTech" and "Gosmarket."

The first component of the GosTech platform is included in the National Fund of Program Algorithms

The first component of the GosTech platform is included in the National Fund of Program Algorithms. Representatives of the Federal Property Management Agency announced this to TAdviser on November 17, 2022.

The component "Client of the payment gateway of the Unified Portal (Public services)" was developed as part of the project to create the Federal Property Online service of the Federal Property Management Agency. The service is fully implemented on the GosTech platform. Read more here.

44-FZ will be rewritten for "simple and fast" purchases of IT products

TAdviser got acquainted with the letter of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko to President Vladimir Putin on the development of the Gostech platform. The letter agreed with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is dated October 12, 2022. In it, among other things, the Deputy Prime Minister draws the attention of the head of state to the fact that "to speed up the implementation of IT solutions developed on the Gostech platform, it is necessary to use simple and fast procurement mechanisms."

"I ask you to instruct the Government of the Russian Federation to develop a bill providing for amendments to the Federal Law" On the contract system in the field of procurement of goods, works, services to meet state and municipal needs "(44-FZ, - note TAdviser) in terms of the possible choice of a ready-made IT solution from the catalog," Chernyshenko wrote.

According to TAdviser, instructions for changes 44-FZ the president were given, after which by the beginning of November 2022 several meetings were held on its development, in which specialists from interested ministries, including the Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development, participated.

The PKU Gostech did not comment on the letter, but said that they were working to simplify the procurement procedure for domestic IT solutions through Gosmarket, which is planned to be launched soon.

As a component of Gostekha, the State Market should become a platform for choosing typical IT solutions that departments need when building information systems. They are supposed to be used according to the "pay for what you use" model. By buying ready-made modules and standard products, departments will be able to save time on their creation on their own.

In an interview with TAdviser in October 2022, the director of the Gostech PKU Vasily Slushkin explained that in 44-FZ the procurement procedure in the likeness of an online store is allowed only for goods, and it takes 7 days.

"But we believe that when our product passes technical expertise and is placed in cloud storage, it will, in fact, become a product on the shelf. It is necessary that in addition to the product, "cloud services" appear in the law through a comma. Technically, we are ready for this. The period of 7 days looks very attractive, because now this procedure takes 1.5-2 months, "said Slushkin.

Moscow and law enforcement agencies will be exempted from the mandatory transition to Gostech and Gosoblako. Draft presidential decree

On the website of the publication of draft regulatory acts regulation.gov.ru November 8, 2022 , the# npa = 133020 draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On ensuring technological independence , information security of state information systems and other measures for the development of digital technologies in the Russian Federation" was posted.

The document after signing will have to establish that the creation and development at the expense of budgetary funds of state information systems (GIS) is carried out on a single digital platform "Gostekh" and a state unified cloud platform ("Gosoblako"). For federal GIS, this requirement will be valid from April 1, 2023, for regional ones - from January 1, 2024.

The transition to Gostech and Gosoblako for federal GIS will need to be completed by December 31, 2025, for regional ones - by December 31, 2026.

By his decision, the Prime Minister will be able to cancel the obligation to transfer to Gostech a particular GIS "taking into account technological and economic feasibility," the draft decree said.

Within a 10-month period, the government must ensure that the legislation of the Russian Federation is amended to implement the decree.

A number of GIS will be withdrawn from the decree. These are systems that ensure the processing of information containing state secrets, information constituting the secret of the investigation and proceedings, as well as information about protected persons and measures of state protection of witnesses and other participants in criminal proceedings.

GIS of those departments whose activities are managed by the president (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Emergencies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc.), as well as the IT systems of the Moscow government, according to the draft decree, may not use Gostekh and Gosblak. This decision will remain at the discretion of the heads of departments and the mayor of the capital.

GIS "Physical Culture and Sports" launched on the platform "GosTech"

The State Information System (GIS) "Physical Culture and Sport" ("FCiS") has been launched on the "GosTech" platform. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko announced this on November 7, 2022. Read more here.

Authorities should switch to GosTech from 2023 - presidential instruction

At the end of October 2022, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko announced the presidential decree, according to which it is necessary to ensure the mandatory transition and use of the GosTech platform when creating and developing a state information system from 2023 for federal executive bodies, and from 2024 - for the subjects of the country.

Now it is very important to launch work on the allocation at GosTech for all GIS of basic standard services that can be reused by FNIV and regions. The Ministry of Digital Development must form a list by the end of the year, as well as introduce their development into departmental digital transformation programs. For example, we see that Rosreestr's services available on the platform are already of interest to many, "said Dmitry Chernyshenko.

The GosTech platform allows you to create state digital services and information systems. According to Chernyshenko, it is the most protected, including through import substitution of all basic components. All of its instruments received certificates from the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC). The Deputy Prime Minister previously stated that the Russian government intends to transfer all state information systems (GIS) to the GosTech platform by 2024, 150 of them will be transferred as a priority.

It is noted that it will be possible to save money due to the fact that GosTech is located in the state cloud, which means that customers disappear the need to supply equipment and installation. This component can account for up to 70-80% of the project cost. Also, the entire technological layer, which is included in the basic standard of platform services, is collected and implemented in the cloud.

The creation and maintenance of several thousand federal and regional information systems cost the budget 460 billion rubles.^[22]

Start of the first GIS

The Federal Property Online service, launched by the Federal Property Management Agency, became the first state system to operate on the basis of the Gostech digital platform. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko announced this on October 24, 2022. Read more here.

The government approved an order on the development of GosTech

On October 22, 2022, the government approved the concept for the development of the GosTech platform and the plan of measures necessary for this ("roadmap"). By 2024, all state information systems will be transferred to the GosTech platform, which will improve the quality of public services to businesses and citizens, the government website says.

Recall that the experiment on the transfer of state information systems to GosTech was launched by the government in 2020 and will last until the end of 2022. According to the approved concept, the results of this experiment will serve as the basis for the development of methodological documents and legal acts that will regulate the functioning of the platform on an ongoing basis and help its further development.

In 2023-2024 the platform management system and the Gosmarket information system, the state marketplace for IT services and applications, will be put into operation. Standard solutions for ensuring information security will also be developed, a catalog of digital services will be formed and the process of creating and developing state information systems directly on the new platform will begin.

In addition, during this period, the architecture of the domains Health care"," Education"," "Urban Environment and HOUSING AND PUBLIC UTILITIES," Construction"," "," "Transport Sport," "Science," "Ecology" will be developed.

In the future, the platform will continue to develop and will be replenished with new domains related to various sectors of the economy and social sphere, and all state information systems will be developed and operate only on this platform.

At the time of the government's announcement of the approval of the concept, the document itself has not yet been published, this is planned to be done later. However, TAdviser has reviewed the approved version. According to the concept, one of the fundamental principles of the functioning of GosTech is openness: non-discriminatory access to it by suppliers is required. Also, the platform should provide mechanisms for the reuse of standard software components of state information systems and digital products. Among the principles - technological independence: software, software and hardware complexes that are part of the GosTekha platform must comply with the requirements of legislation in the field of import substitution.

Special attention in the concept is paid to the information security of GosTech. For example, the document says that in order to reduce the timing of the creation and development of state information systems, the formation and change of digital products of the Ministry of Digital Development, together with the Federal Intelligence Agency authorized in the field of countering technical intelligence and technical information protection, it is necessary to analyze the possibility of applying standard solutions to ensure information security. This would reduce the time for the development, implementation of information protection systems and certification measures for compliance with the requirements for the protection of state information systems.

The GosTech concept also involves the transition to a client-centric principle when creating and developing state information systems based on domain architecture. Today, the creation and development of state information systems in most cases is carried out by each government agency and extrabudgetary fund in isolation with a focus on optimizing and automating processes within the established powers. But modern world experience shows the high efficiency of a client-centric approach, including in the field of public administration.

Thus, there is a need to change approaches to the design of state information systems and the transition to a single domain architecture, in which large areas of activity of state bodies and extra-budgetary funds are allocated to a single functional architecture management object - a domain, the document says.

As for funding, several options are assumed here. Thus, it is planned to finance the creation, development and operation of state information systems that are part of the GosTech platform, as well as infrastructure technological services and basic services of the platform for creating other state information systems at the expense of funds provided for by the Ministry of Digital Development Economy of the Russian Federation.

It is planned to finance the creation, development and operation of federal state information systems that are not part of the infrastructure technological services and basic services of the GosTech platform, additional services of the GosTech platform at the expense of funds provided for by the relevant federal investment fund and state extra-budgetary funds in the federal budget and (or) the budgets of state extra-budgetary funds. It also provides for the option of extra-budgetary financing if the creation, development, operation of state information systems will be provided by other organizations.

And regional state information systems at GosTech, respectively, will be financed at the expense of funds provided for by the executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the relevant budgets.

Ministry of Digital Development changes approaches to the development of GIS

In October 2022, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation issued a regulation on Gostekh, within the framework of which it described new methods for creating state information systems (GIS).

Amendments to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 6, 2015 No. 676 "On the requirements for the procedure for the creation, development, commissioning, operation and decommissioning of state information systems and the further storage of information contained in their databases... To ensure a reduction in the timing of the creation of state information systems, it is proposed to normatively consolidate the possibility of creating state information systems in parts (queues), the explanatory note to the draft resolution says.

According to the first deputy director of GosTech Vladimir Rakhmanov, a cascading model for creating GIS was created back in the 70s, and in the 80s it became the standard.

Recently, this approach has lost its advantage in favor of iterative and flexible approaches. It has to do with a rapidly changing world. Everyone understands perfectly well that it is impossible to design the system for six months and still create a year. During this time, the world and technologies will change and everything will have to be redone, - he said.

The Ministry of Digital Development proposed to create and commission GIS in parts to reduce the commissioning time of a particular system. In this case, the concept of the system should include descriptions of all queues for its creation.

Also, when creating and developing systems, it will be possible to apply an iterative approach to development. To do this, at the stage of developing the terms of reference, the system requirements must be divided into groups. As part of the iteration in relation to groups of requirements, software development or adaptation, development of working documentation for the system, commissioning, preliminary tests, and experimental operation of the system can be carried out. At the same time, it is allowed to begin the performance of certain stages of work before the completion of the previous stages of work, as well as the parallel execution of the stages of work, the press service of GosTeha explained to Interfax^[23]

The draft regulation on the unified digital platform of the Russian Federation "GosTech" has been published

On October 12, the regulation.gov.ru published a draft resolution " Government of the Russian Federation On the approval of the provision on the unified digital platform" RUSSIAN FEDERATION GosTech. " It establishes the purpose, objectives and purpose of the Gostech platform, its functions and basic principles of operation, the composition of participants, their powers, the procedure for maintaining a catalog of digital products, access to the platform, and general information protection state requirements for information systems on the platform.

In addition, the same draft resolution should approve amendments to Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 676 of July 6, 2015 "On Requirements for the Procedure for the Creation, Development, Commissioning, Operation and Decommissioning of State Information Systems, and Further Storage of Information Contained in their Databases" (hereinafter referred to as PP 676), providing for the possibility of applying an iterative approach to the development of state information systems.

The key points in the draft resolution are the following. First, the possibility of creating state information systems by parts (queues) is introduced, provided that the concept of creating a system includes a description of all queues of its creation. When creating each subsequent system queue, it will be possible to take measures to develop the previous system queues.

Secondly, when creating or developing systems, it will be possible to apply an iterative approach to development. This approach is actively promoted by the developers of Gostekh. The first deputy director of the PKU "Gostekh" Vladimir Rakhmanov at the IT Government Day forum, organized by TAdviser in October, noted that the current PP of the Russian Federation 676 determines the only way to create GIS - cascade or "waterfall" model. This model was created back in the 70s, and gained maximum popularity in the 80s, when it became the de facto standard.

Recently, this approach has lost its advantage in favor of iterative and flexible approaches. It has to do with a rapidly changing world. Everyone understands perfectly well that it is impossible to design the system for six months and still create a year. During this time, the world and technologies will change and everything will have to be redone, - explained Vladimir Rakhmanov [24]].

That is why the PKU "Gostekh" together with the Ministry of Digital Development developed a draft amendment to the PP of the Russian Federation 676.

According to the developed draft resolution, if an iterative approach is applied at the stage of TA development in accordance with paragraph 3 of the requirements approved by PP of the Russian Federation 676, the system requirements should be divided into groups. And as part of the iteration in relation to groups of requirements, software development or adaptation, development of working documentation for the system, commissioning, preliminary tests, and experimental operation of the system can be carried out.

At the same time, it is allowed to start the execution of certain stages of work before the completion of the previous stages of work and parallel in time execution of the stages of work.

Experience in the field of IT of the largest Russian and international organizations confirms the effectiveness of the use of flexible methodologies and an iterative approach in the creation and development of new digital products. The use of short development cycles, regular demonstrations of intermediate development results allow you to quickly correct erroneous design solutions, - says the explanatory note to the draft government decree.

Thirdly, during the development of the system, it is allowed to commission certain system components before issuing a legal act on the commissioning of the system on the basis of a test protocol for individual system components. In this case, a number of conditions must be met. Namely:

• the possibility of commissioning components as part of the operated system should be provided with a TA for the development of the system (system queues); the system shall comply with the protection requirements established for it; information
• there is no need to carry out certification of the system according to the requirements of information protection;
• the requirements specified in clause 191 of the RF PP 676 shall be met.

Particular attention in the draft resolution is paid to the information security of Gostekha. The explanatory note to the draft government decree notes that at present, a general tendency has formed among government agencies to optimize the use of information and technological infrastructure through the use of clouds. This was facilitated, among other things, by the state experiment on the transfer of state information systems to a single cloud platform.

At the same time, the use of cloud computing creates new threats to information security, which must be solved jointly by the Security Information Security Department and the Security Information Management Department, authorized in the field of counteracting technical intelligence and technical information protection.

In connection with the stated draft resolution, in order to prevent a destructive information and technical impact on Russian information resources, including critical information infrastructure facilities of the Russian Federation, the need to implement unified information security management mechanisms of the GosTech platform in the national interest is established, the explanatory note says.

Published guidelines for basic services "GosTekha"

In early October, methodological recommendations related to Gostekh - Basic Services, approved by the Legal Commission on Digital Development, the use of IT to improve the quality of life and business conditions, were published. Main requirements for composition and functions, "as well as recommendations for including services in the Gostech platform.

The first document defines the requirements for the basic services of the GosTech EDS, which are provided to users of the GosTech EDS according to the Platform as a Service model (PaaS, platform as a service). This model assumes that the Gostech user gets remote access through cloud computing to a set of basic platform services hosted by the provider.

Basic set services are divided into the following types:

• Data services
• integration services;
• Management services
• service technology services;
• integration services with e-government infrastructure.

The methodological recommendations spell out the composition of these services, general requirements for them and for the protection of information in them, requirements for accessibility, reliability, diagnosability, access control and accounts, for the service provider, as well as for legal registration, billing, self-service portal, connection to FSIS GEOP ("state region").

In turn, the second document - guidelines for including services in the Gostech platform - defines the requirements for services provided by suppliers for inclusion in GosTech as an extension of basic services in order to develop its functionality in accordance with the needs of platform users.

The described requirements are imposed on each service that is planned to be included in GosTech, as well as on the supplier. In case of non-compliance with them, the inclusion of the service in the "GosTekha" is not allowed until the identified shortcomings are eliminated. Moreover, these methodological recommendations apply to the services themselves, as well as to all components that are part of them and are part of them, the document says.

One of the general basic requirements is that the service should be included in the register of domestic software, and all its components should be compatible with at least one of the Linux-based operating systems from this registry.

In addition to the general requirements for the services included in the Gostech platform, the guidelines also spell out additional requirements for services created under the state contract. They include, among other things, the recommended technological stack and the condition that the service created under the state contract should be placed in the National Fund of Algorithms and Programs.

In addition to the above two documents, there are also requirements for digital products that provide infrastructure computing resources and services. These are defined in the guidelines for managing dynamic infrastructure.

What is GosTech and why is it needed? Interview TAdviser with the head of PKU "GosTech" Vasily Sverkin

The head of the federal state institution GosTech, subordinate to the Ministry of Digital Development, compares the digital platform of the same name being created with a car engine. Using it as a basis, authorities will be able to assemble applied information systems for their tasks faster, cheaper and more reliably. In an interview with TAdviser editor-in-chief Alexander Levashov, Vasily Slushkin formulated key motives for migration of information systems and services to GosTech, and also warned market participants wishing to work with the public sector about the upcoming change of business models. Read more here.

The National Fund of Algorithms and Programs will become part of the Gostech ecosystem

The National Fund of Algorithms and Programs (NFAP) can be transferred to Gostech. TAdviser was informed about this at the end of September in the office of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

The NFAP is a repository of digital products that are developed by order of the state and for budget money and can be reused by various government agencies in order to save budget funds. Official funding for the creation, development and operation of this federal GIS began back in 2013. Initially, the state customer and operator of the NFAP is the Ministry of Communications of Russia - now the Ministry of Digital Development.

The NFAP was to be finalized by March 1, 2023. But by the decree of the government of the Russian Federation of September 16, 2022 No. 1623, this period was extended until August 31, 2023.

In this regard, Russia has been instructed Ministry of Digital Development develop a schedule for migration and refinement of the NFAP on the basis of the unified digital platform "Gostech," - said the assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister Anton Taraev. - Thanks to the NFAP, it is possible to organize an effective reuse of digital products, and this is one of the basic principles that Gostech is based on. The NFAP will also be a significant part of the GIS assembly conveyor, it will house the collected releases of information systems.

The idea of ​ ​ linking the NFAP and Gostekha was discussed earlier. The Gostech service delivery model, which representatives of the Gostech PKU talked about at various events, included the placement of software by its owner in the NFAP and the use^[25] in the platform conveyor].

In December 2021, a government decree amended, according to which customers of state information systems - FOIVs and state extra-budgetary funds - are required to submit information to the NFAP before signing acts of acceptance of work under the state contract^[26]. This is designed to ensure the reuse of technologies, reduce the technological dependence of authorities, and ensure the development of the ecosystem of the digital economy.

Other government agencies, including the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, are instructed by the same government decree to post information in the NFAP when signing acts of acceptance of delivered goods, work performed and services provided under state contracts. The placement of objects in the NFAP is carried out by suppliers in accordance with the methodological recommendations for the formation and maintenance of the state repository of algorithms and programs.

According to the information on the NFAP portal, as of September 2022, 393 objects were located in it. The most active contributor to the system is the Pension Fund - it has placed 46 objects in the NFAP. It is followed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the FSIN Penitentiary Service and the Ministry of Economic Development, which have placed more than 30 objects each.

Ministry of Digital Development creates a protection system "Gostekha" for tens of millions of rubles

In September 2022, it became known about the creation of a protection system information for the Gostech platform. The corresponding tender was announced, Ministry of Digital Development communications and mass media. RUSSIAN FEDERATION The contract value is 76.9 million. rubles

According to TASS, citing public procurement materials, the contractor will have, in particular, to simulate possible security threats in domains and state information systems, develop a security concept and a project to create an integrated information protection system for Gostekha. Work on the contract should be completed on December 5, 2022.

The goal of the project is to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information being processed, to localize and minimize the damage caused to the information being processed, as well as to timely identify and eliminate information security threats and create mechanisms and conditions for a prompt response to such threats.

The technical assignment attached to the tender assumes that the system will include central and peripheral segments. At the same time, the central segment should be limited to the data center of technology providers and interaction networks between data centers. Peripheral segments of the system will include automated workstations of end users of various categories (sites of federal executive bodies and organizations operating GIS on the Gostech platform, as well as collective user access networks).

Applications are accepted until October 3, 2022, the results of the competition will be announced on October 7, 2022.

In early September 2022, the Ministry of Digital Development published draft provisions on the Gostekh and Gosmarket platforms (a specialized marketplace for state information systems - GIS). If the document is signed, then until 2024 the work of state customers with Gostekh will remain voluntary, and then will become uncontested.^[27]

Published a draft government decree on the "State Market"

On September 2, 2022, a draft government decree was published on the regulation.gov.ru portal, which should approve the regulation on two new state InformSystems (GIS) - "Management of the Gostech and Gosmarket platform"^[28]

GIS Gostech Platform Management will provide tools for managing the development, testing and deployment of government information systems developed on the Gostech platform.

The system will implement mechanisms for the reuse of standard software components of state information systems. GIS customers (federal authorities, regions), developers (contractors), as well as IT-Business will be able to use the system, - explains Anton Taraev, Assistant Deputy Prime Minister.

According to Alexander Fetisov, Deputy Director of Gostech, the Gostech Platform Management system will provide the IT market with tools for designing and developing GIS based on the platform, and will standardize and control the production process of creating and operating GIS.

Gostech Platform Management will provide a mechanism for providing a dynamic infrastructure in order to obtain the required fault tolerance and performance when changing the number of users, the amount of data processed in accordance with the QoS agreement. Also, the created GIS should provide the possibility of continuous improvement of functionality when changing the legislation of the Russian Federation and the development of information technologies, "says Fetisov.

He added that openness is one of the most important principles on which Gostech is built, and that the creators of the platform seek to ensure non-discriminatory access of suppliers to the Gostech Platform Management system and the possibility of their participation in the discussion of draft methodological recommendations on the functioning of the system.

The software included in the Gostech Platform Management will comply with the requirements of the current legislation in the field of import substitution.

In turn, GIS "Gosmarket" will provide Gostech users with a platform for searching and choosing digital products. According to the draft resolution, the main goal of creating the Gosmarket is to increase the efficiency of creating and developing state information systems on the GosTech platform by cataloguing and optimizing the receipt of digital products by users of the platform, ensuring a high level of their quality and security, as well as supporting the development of domestic IT solutions.

The platform should ensure that quality digital products are delivered and compliant. Russian IT companies will be able to add their solutions to the catalog if the products meet platform requirements, including information security.

Gosmarket is also expected to make it easier for customers of digital products to prepare draft specifications. To do this, it is planned to develop a special documentation designer and a tool for preparing a feasibility study for the creation of GIS.

Digital products presented in the GIS "Gosmarket" will be paid. Alexander Fetisov calls the planned pricing model standard for cloud products. The cost is formed according to the principle of "Pay as you go" (payment as you consume): the consumer pays only for the amount of services and computing resources (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) that he actually uses.

Both systems will be designed and developed during 2022 and 2023, and by the end of 2022 separate elements of the systems functionality should be implemented.

The explanatory note with the draft resolution says that its adoption will not require the allocation of additional funds from the federal budget and state extrabudgetary funds, as it will be carried out through the redistribution of allocations provided for in the federal budget for 2022 and 2023-2024. Financing is provided for as part of the result of the federal project "Digital State Administration" of the state program "Information Society," in connection with which a financial and economic justification has been prepared.

The Accounts Chamber found risks in the Gostekh agreement between the Ministry of Digital Development and Sberbank

The Accounts Chamber assessed the current state of federal state information systems in terms of the prospects for digitalization of public administration. According to the report on the results of this assessment, which TAdviser got acquainted with on August 30, the auditors saw the risks in the agreement on the GosTech platform concluded between the Ministry of Digital Development and Sberbank.

The experiment on the creation and implementation of a single digital platform "GosTech," in accordance with a government decree, was launched in 2020. In the same year, a state contract was signed between the Ministry of Digital Development and Sberbank for the provision of services for the transfer of non-exclusive rights and ensuring the functioning, administration and uninterrupted operation of software for an experiment on the creation, translation and development of Gos. IT systems and their components on the GosTech platform^[29].

In accordance with this state contract, Sberbank transferred to the Ministry of Digital Development of the right to use software that makes up the technological basis of the platform, on the terms of a simple (non-exclusive) license without the right to modify (modify) it and without transferring source codes.

This entails the risk of loss of non-exclusive rights of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development to the software that forms the technological basis of the GosTech platform, in case of loss (for any reason) of the exclusive right of Sberbank PJSC to it, and also makes the technological basis of the GosTech platform dependent on the specific business entity - the owner of exclusive rights to the software, - the auditors of the Accounts Chamber note in their report.

According to the license agreement under the state contract, a non-exclusive license to use the software is provided to the Ministry of Digital Development for the entire validity period of the exclusive right of Sberbank, and the commercial software of third parties used in the platform is provided for the validity period of the state contract.

Initially, the end of the last stage of the provision of services under the state contract was indicated on May 31, 2022, but shortly before this date, the parties entered into an additional agreement to the agreement, which changed the end of the last stage to October 15, 2022. The end of the general term of the state contract was then shifted from July 31, 2022 to December 31, 2022.

It follows from the license agreement that the exclusive right to the software of the GosTech platform, of which Sberbank is the copyright holder, can pass from it to the new copyright holder, but it also states that this is not the basis for changing or terminating the agreement between the Ministry of Digital Development and Sberbank.

The Ministry of Digital Development told TAdviser that the validity of the right to use the software is not related to the period of provision of services to ensure the uninterrupted operation of such software.

According to the license agreement, Sberbank transferred the right to use the software to the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia for the departments participating in the experiment for the entire term of its exclusive right. This is enough for an experiment. At the same time, the exclusive rights to the GISs created on the basis of the GosTech platform belong to the state, the department says.

The Ministry of Digital Development added that the issue of amending the terms of the license agreement is currently being worked out, expanding after the end of the experiment the possibility of using Sberbank software for all federal, regional and municipal departments.

Recommendations have been prepared for the selection of regional services for inclusion in GosTech

At the end of August 2022, a draft methodological recommendations on the selection of regional services for inclusion in the unified digital platform "GosTech," on which it is possible to create state digital services and information systems, were presented.

According to the document, which is published in the official Telegram channel "GosTech," the services offered by the participant for placement on "GosTech" must comply with the following principles:

• Re-use principle. The service should be in demand for reuse at the GosTech EDS by other constituent entities of the Russian Federation;
• The principle of client centrism. The service offered for placement on the GosTech EDS should be aimed at effectively meeting the needs of End Users;
• Scalability principle. The service offered for placement on the GosTech EDS should provide the required fault tolerance and performance when changing the number of users, transactions, as well as the amount of data processed in accordance with the agreement on the level of service quality;
• The principle of adaptability. The service offered for placement at the GosTech EDS should ensure the possibility of continuous improvement of functionality when changing the legislation of the Russian Federation and the development of information technologies;
• Principle of import substitution. The service offered for placement at the GosTech EDS must comply with the requirements of the current legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of import substitution.
• The principle of trust. The service offered for placement on the GosTech EDS should ensure compliance with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of information security, including confidentiality and integrity of information, prevention of unauthorized actions, in particular, use, disclosure, distortion, change, research, destruction of information. A draft methodological recommendations on the selection of regional services for inclusion in the Unified Digital Platform "GosTech" have been prepared

On the unified digital platform "GosTech" the domain "Construction" will be created

The Construction domain will be created on a single digital platform GosTech. This became known on July 14, 2022. Read more here.

Law enforcement agencies refused to transfer their IT systems to the Gostech platform

Russian law enforcement agencies are not ready to place their SIS (state information system) on the Gostech platform. This was announced on July 2, 2022 at a government meeting by the director of the Gostech PKU Vasily Slushkin.

12 FOIVs will not place their GIS on the platform:

• Rosgvardia

• Russian Defense Ministry

• Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
• FSO of Russia
• Russian Foreign Intelligence Service
• FSB of Russia
• FSTEC of Russia
• Office of the President of the Russian Federation
• Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the Russian Federation (GSP)
• State Courier Service of the Russian Federation (SFS of Russia)
• Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS of Russia)
• Federal Service for Execution of Punishment (Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia)

The PKU Gostech explained to TAdviser that this is due to the specifics of the activities of these departments.

At the same time, another 48 FNIV provided plans for the migration of their GIS to the Gostech platform.

As it became known to TAdviser from an informed source, a number of departments faced technical difficulties. For example, the Russian Foreign Ministry has a park of disparate systems of varying degrees of maturity. At the end of June, the ministry held a meeting at which it considered the technical possibility of transferring GIS to a single Gostech platform. According to the source, some FOIVs are trying to delay time, they are in no hurry to launch projects to transfer systems to the platform, apparently waiting for the first results.

So far, only 13 FOIVs have announced the transfer of GIS to the Gostech platform in 2023:

• MHIF
• Minsport
• Federal Property Management Agency
• FIU
• Rosleskhoz
• Ministry of Education and Science
• Ministry of Health
• Treasury
• Ministry of Finance
• Ministry of Natural Resources
• Ministry of Agriculture
• Rosreestr
• Ministry of Digital Development

At the final stage are projects for the transfer to the GosTech platform of the GIS MHIF, the Ministry of Sports and the Federal Property Management Agency. From September 1, 2022, several digital services and subsystems of the FKS GIS (GIS "Physical Culture and Sports") should be launched. From December 1, 2022, GIS compulsory medical insurance: digital policies will become available to all citizens of the Russian Federation. In a number of regions, the pilot operation of the FGIAS ESUGI ("Unified State Property Management System") began.

In parallel, the transfer of regional GIS to the Gostech platform is underway. Thus, pilot projects have been launched to place eleven regions of Russia on a single GIS platform. Among the project participants:

• Saint Petersburg
• Kazan
• Belgorod Oblast
• Kaliningrad region
• Kaluga region
• Nizhny Novgorod region
• Novosibirsk region
• Sakhalin Oblast
• Tyumen region
• Chelyabinsk region
• Perm Krai

Another 11 regions have already planned projects to transfer regional GIS to the state platform. 38 regions announced that they were ready to launch projects. At the same time, 25 regions did not announce their intentions. Moreover, according to a TAdviser source, among them there are both those who simply did not have time to submit information, and those who are not interested in placing regional GIS on the Gostech platform. According to the source, for example, the Moscow authorities are convinced that the level of IT development in the capital is much higher than the national average, so for Moscow it will be a rollback.

In his presentation at the government meeting, the director of the Gostech PKU Vasily Slushkin focused on the need to speed up the migration of GIS to the Gostech platform, as this guarantees a higher level of security. According to him, foreign-made software and equipment are used in the state IT infrastructure. For more than 50% of GIS, there is a critical risk of IT infrastructure denial from hardware vendors and software vendors. 66% of GIS uses foreign virtualization tools VMWare and Microsoft Hyper-V. According to Vasily Slushkin, the Gostech platform uses exclusively Russian software or open source.

Chernyshenko: 150 GIS will be transferred to GosTech as a priority

150 state information systems (GIS) will be transferred to GosTech as a priority, and 3 of them are already in the process of migration - these are the information systems of the MHIF, the Ministry of Sports and the Federal Property Management Agency. This was announced on July 4, 2022 by the press service of the Government of the Russian Federation with reference to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

According to him, a large-scale transfer of all GIS to GosTech is planned by 2024. By the beginning of July 2022, preparatory work is underway in terms of planning the technical base, changes in regulatory legal acts, the development of standards and methodological recommendations; in the near future, road maps of the transfer of FNIV and regions to the platform will be approved.

Digital transformation leaders need to take personal control of work schedules and scale best practices... The President set us the task of achieving technological sovereignty. And the use of the domestic platform "GosTech" will allow it to be implemented, - said Dmitry Chernyshenko at a meeting on the transfer of state information systems to the unified digital platform "GosTech" with the leaders of the digital transformation of federal executive bodies and deputy heads of subjects for digital transformation (total - more than 250 participants).

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation said that GosTech is the most protected Russian platform, including through the use of domestic technologies in all basic components. Certificates of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC) have been obtained for all tools of the platform.

By the beginning of July 2022, an inventory of about 500 state information systems, which are planned to be placed at GosTech, was carried out^[30]

Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Natural Resources launched the design of the Ecology domain

Ministry of Digital Development of Russia announced on June 10, 2022, a joint design Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia domain "Ecology" with on the GosTech platform Domain. "" Ecology- this will ecosystem unite more than 20 services in the field of ecology and nature management, which will allow citizens to receive services in one window mode, rationally use natural resources, preserve ecology and take care of the environment. More. here

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation creates a domain "Healthcare" on "Gostekh"

In June 2022, it became known about the creation of the Ministry of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Health of the domain Health care"," which will be built on a single digital platform State that"." According to the First Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation, Volodymyr Zelensky among the main tasks of the domain is the creation of digital twins medical organizations, doctors and patients. Openness and completeness of data will contribute to improving the quality of medical services and optimizing services, COMPULSORY HEALTH INSURANCE said a representative of the Ministry of Health. More. here

The creation of "Gostekh" is delayed due to sanctions

On March 29, 2022, the Russian Ministry of Digital Development announced a possible extension of the experiment to create the Gostech digital platform until the end of 2022. As Kommersant was told in the office of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, this is due to sanctions risks and the need for additional study of the security issues of services developed as part of the experiment.

As the newspaper notes, the creators see the platform as a kind of state ecosystem for private and state providers of solutions and services and for departments and government agencies - operators of existing and future GIS. The Ministry of Digital Development told the newspaper that the extension of the experiment is associated with the impossibility of buying server equipment, an increase in the cost of equipment and services of providers and an increase in attacks on infrastructure, which required strengthening information security measures.

By the end of March 2022, the Ministry of Digital Development is working on options for the implementation of a simplified procedure for the purchase of digital products placed on the platform for the creation and operation of state information systems, as well as for the implementation of the powers of state authorities.^[31]

In March 2022, an absentee meeting of the interdepartmental working group on the architecture of basic information resources and the principles of data processing was held, at which a draft methodological recommendations on the inclusion of services in Gostech were presented.

By a majority of votes, these recommendations were supported, and proposals and comments were also received from industry experts, who are currently being worked out, the Ministry of Digital Development added.

The office of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko says that the department proposes to amend the state contract with Sber, the creator and operator of Gostekha, to extend the terms of provision of services without changing the cost of the contract. Officials expect that the shift will not affect plans for the migration of all federal GIS to Gostech from 2024.

Dozens of open source tools with the main development branches outside Russia were found in the Gostech platform

Market participants drew TAdviser's attention to the fact that the Gostech platform is based on a wide range of open source software, which is controlled by legal entities registered in the United States. According to one of TAdviser's interlocutors, this could potentially become a problem. For example, despite the fact that international development groups are developing individual Apache products, everything legally belongs to the Apache Software Foundation, registered in the United States.

The description of the Gostech platform indicates a number of open source products, the rights to which are controlled either by corporations or funds registered in the United States. For example, licenses for Apache Kafka, Apache Flink or Apache Hadoop are controlled by the Apache Software Foundation, the Elasticsearch search engine is controlled by Elastic. Now the licenses for these products are very "weak" and do not require anything from the organizations that use them, however, the risk cannot be ruled out that, under pressure from the government, the owners of the rights will change the content of the licenses, - said the interlocutor of TAdviser

When developing the Gostech platform, according to its official website, the following were used:

• Apache NiFi - Apache Software Foundation License (USA)
• Apache Kafka is a license of the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• Apache ZooKeeper - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• Apache Maven - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• Apache Hadoop - Apache Software Foundation License (USA)
• Apache Tomcat - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• Apache Ignite - Apache Software Foundation License (USA)
• Apache Commons - Apache Software Foundation License (USA)
• Apache Ambari - Apache Software Foundation License (USA)
• Apache Hive is a license of the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• Apache Oozie - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• Apache Tez is a license of the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• Apache Spark - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• Prometheus - Apache Software Foundation License (USA)
• Ehcache is a license of the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• HBASE - Apache Software Foundation License (USA)
• Sqoop - Apache Software Foundation License (USA)
• Hue is licensed by the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• Solr is licensed by the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• HikariCP - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• AuthZForce - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• Keycloak is a license of the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• Kibana is licensed by the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• Istio is licensed by the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• Google Guava - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• Mapstruct - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• Jetty is licensed by the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• Akka is licensed by the Apache Software Foundation (USA)
• FlyWay - Apache Software Foundation license (USA)
• Jenkins - MIT license (USA)
• React - MIT license (USA)
• Node JS - MIT license (USA)
• Hibernate is licensed by the Free Software Foundation (USA)
• WildFly is a license of the Free Software Foundation (USA)
• EJBCA is a license of the Free Software Foundation (USA)
• Elasticsearch is the owner of Elastic (Netherlands)
• Logstash - owner of Elastic (Netherlands)
• AWS Java SDK - Owner (Amazon USA)
• Sonarqube is a developer of SonarSource (Switzerland)
• Bitbucket is the owner of Atlassian (Australia)
• PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL license (property of the developer community)
• Ansible - GNU GPL license (public property)
• SpringBoot - GNU GPL license (public property)
• Ranger - GNU GPL license (public property)
• OpenResty - BSD (public property) license
• Nginx - BSD license (public property)
• Scala - BSD license (public property)
• Freemarker - BSD license (public property)

Vasily Shvezhkin, General Director of Gostech PKU, confirmed that many platform solutions use open source tools, but assured TAdviser that Gostech is not in danger, since all the rights to solutions used in its creation belong to the state.

The Gostech platform was created entirely on Russian solutions. This is a mandatory requirement for included products and solutions. At the same time, we pay special attention to intellectual property. The rights to the products are fully regulated with the rights of third parties, - Vasily Slushkin told TAdviser.

2021

In 2022, the first regions will receive 50-100 million rubles each for the development of GIS for the Gostech platform

In March 2022, PKU Gostech will present technical requirements, based on which the regions will be able to develop GIS and publish them on the Gosmarket marketplace. Yuri Zarubin, Deputy Director of the Department for Coordination of Programs and Projects of the Ministry of Digital Science, told about this on December 22 at the Gostech conference Designing the Future Together, held at the RANEPA site.

Also in March 2022, a test bench of the service development pipeline will be launched. Both representatives of the Gostech PKU and the regions will take part in its testing. The development conveyor will be put into commercial operation in May.

In April, the Ministry of Digital Development announced a scheme for providing subsidies for developers under Gostech. By this time, the government will approve a plan for the provision of subsidies; already in May, rules will be adopted according to which they will be allocated. In addition, by May it is planned to develop criteria for assessing regions applying for state funds.

In June-July, a competitive selection will take place among the regions applying for subsidies. Contracts with the winners of the PKU "Gostech" will conclude for a year and a half. The regions that won the competition will be given 50-100 million rubles per project. It is assumed that state subsidies will receive from 6 to 12 regions.

Key criteria on the basis of which state subsidies will be provided:

• Project compliance with technical requirements;
• Project demand in other regions;
• Compliance with the draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 68 dated 04.02.2021 "On assessing the effectiveness of the activities of senior officials (heads of senior executive bodies of state power) of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the activities of executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation," which lists five priority sectors of the economy subject to digital transformation.

Regions, as part of work on GIS for Gostech, will be able to order the contractor to develop a technical project and a methodology for introducing the service in other regions. For this regions, the winners will be able to spend up to 10% of the state subsidy. The first projects made at the expense of state funds should appear on the Gosmarket showcase in 2023. And from 2024, the services posted on the State Market will become available for use according to the subscription model.

After the launch of the Gostech and Gosmarket platforms, the regions will be able to purchase developed GIS in the form of a service. That is, they will receive functional and secure systems, on which they now spend millions of rubles, much cheaper, "said Yury Zarubin, Deputy Director of the Program and Project Coordination Department Ministry of Digital Development at the Gostech conference, Designing the Future Together.

According to Vladimir Rakhmanov, First Deputy Director of Gostech PKU, the launch of the platform of the same name will take place in stages. Including, in stages, standards (recommendations) will be developed regarding the creation of GIS on the Gostech platform. In October 2021, two standards were adopted at the architectural committee: the standard of frontal interfaces of public services and the standard of notifications. In total, it is planned to develop 50-60 standards. At the beginning of 2022, the following should be approved:

• Pipeline development standard (process requirements);
• Product standard (requirements for products included in the platform);
• Infrastructure as Code/IaC standard (requirements for the process of automatic dynamic deployment in the cloud);
• Management standard (GIS requirements for availability and reliability monitoring);
• User interface ergonomics standard.

In addition, in 2022, there should be a transition from a multi-standard to a multi-tenant architecture: that is, from a model, when each department deploys a fragment of the platform, to the use of a common infrastructure, tools and services.

Now each consumer uses its own instance of the infrastructure, platform services and application layer. When moving to a multi-tenant architecture - one copy of the service will be used by all consumers, - says deputy. Director of PKU "Gostech" Vladimir Rakhmanov.

The first service has appeared on the Gostech platform, the components of which can be reused in other projects

The Ministry of Digital Development and the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (MHIF) in December 2021 launched the first service on the Gostech platform, which, through the State Services portal, informs citizens when receiving medical services under the compulsory medical Public services. Now, when running GIS on the Gostech platform, you can use ready-made tools to create notification services through the Public services portal.

Director of the PKU "Gostekh" Vasily Shvezhkin told TAdviser that only two months passed from the moment the SOW was formed to commissioning. Moreover, these deadlines include both design and technical implementation stages and procedures for amending regulatory documents to ensure the possibility of such information.

Analogues of the service exist in many GIS, but it is unique that a universal component has been developed with the ability to reuse it in other GIS implemented on the Gostech platform. The notification service routes and, if necessary, enriches data from various subsystems of the CHI GIS for subsequent sending to the State Public services portal. To organize interaction, the SMEV adapter is also used, - Vasily Slushkin told TAdviser.

Now, within the framework of the MHIF project, three types of proactive notifications are available after issuing a referral for hospitalization to a federal clinic: that a referral for hospitalization has been formed and the medical commission of the receiving medical institution is considering it; on the adoption of the decision by the medical commission; on the costs of treatment allocated from the budget of the compulsory medical insurance program. The implemented service will minimize the number of visits to medical institutions, which is extremely important in the context of COVID-19, and will also relieve unnecessary stress on the staff of medical organizations.

Already more than 100 federal medical institutions inform their patients through the State Public services portal. By the end of the year, all federal medical organizations must connect to the service.

The first service of the State Public services portal, developed on Gostech. Not every country will dare to such a large-scale project. There are enough problems, but it is already half the battle to identify them. In my opinion, Gostech looks like an icebreaker - it opens up ice and opens up new horizons, "Dmitry Oguryaev, deputy head of the Ministry of Digital Science, wrote on his Facebook page.

Shadayev: the main task of Gostekh is to stimulate competition by removing the customer's dependence on a specific contractor

The guest is designed to eliminate the long-term dependence of state customers on IT contractors, said Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev, answering questions from the IT industry during TAdviser SummIT.

"The main task of Gostech is to stimulate competition by removing the dependence of the customer on a specific contractor who has been developing and supporting his IT system for many years. After all, sometimes contractors receive 30-40-50% of the proceeds from one state customer, and in this sense Gostekh is called upon to level this story, put things in order with production culture, with architectural approaches, "Shadayev explained.

The full text and video of Maksut Shadayev's speech on TAdviser SummIT - here.

Vasily Slushkin transferred from acting to "full-fledged" director of PKU "Gostech"

Vasily Slushkin was appointed director of the State Technologies PKU. As it became known to TAdviser, the order to appoint him Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Maksut Shadayev signed on November 22, 2021. More

The Ministry of Digital Development will oblige government agencies to reduce GIS costs

As it became known on November 22, 2021 Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation it will oblige government agencies to reduce budget expenditures on state information systems when developing departmental digital transformation programs, as well as when planning and implementing informatization measures.

Writes about this Businessman"" with reference to the corresponding document published on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts. De facto, the document Ministry of Digital Development is aimed at using the departments of the unified cloud platform "Gostech," the newspaper notes.

The changes proposed by the department will allow government agencies to conclude life cycle contracts (an agreement on the performance of a set of works, starting with the design, manufacture or construction of the facility, ending with its subsequent maintenance, possibly operation and even disposal), including for already existing and actively operated information systems. This, according to Ministry of Digital Development, will become a powerful incentive for the development of the practice of applying this type of contract. The conclusion of life cycle contracts does not distinguish any special group of "operators" for servicing information systems, they emphasize there.

The use of the mechanism of a full range of work not only at the stage of creating information systems, but also starting with work on development, operation, as well as, if necessary, commissioning, decommissioning of information systems will increase the efficiency of government spending, the explanatory note to the project says.

It is assumed that from 2024 all federal GIS will migrate to Gostech, and it will be a standard and mandatory environment for digitalization of the state.^[32]

The first IT systems moving to Gostech will be located on the infrastructure of the cloud provider Sberbank

The information systems of the first participant of the Gostech platform of the Federal Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (MHIF) will be deployed at the data center of the Sberbank-owned company Sberbank, which won the tender for the provision of information infrastructure.

The choice of infrastructure provider ended on November 10, a source with knowledge of the matter told TAdviser. Only one application was submitted from Cloud Technologies LLC (SberCloud brand), therefore, before the company is approved as a supplier, it must go to the FAS approval procedure, which should be completed by the end of November 2021. The Ministry of Digital Development set 873 373 529,25 rubles as the maximum contract price.

The Ministry of Digital Development, commenting on the results of the tender, confirmed to TAdviser that the tender has been completed and the winner has been determined, and the contractor will be agreed with the FAS as part of the 44-FZ procedures. However, they did not name the winner. According to the ministry, the winner of the tender submitted a proposal satisfying the request, which was formulated in the tender documentation.

After signing the state contract, the press service of Sberbank told TAdviser that the company, within the framework of fulfilling its contractual obligations, will provide services for providing computing resources for the state unified cloud platform in order to place and ensure the functioning of information resources and information systems of federal executive bodies of the Russian Federation and state extrabudgetary funds.

As the chairman of the FFOMS Elena Chernyakova said on October 23, 2021 as part of the presentation of the Gostech platform, a number of services have already been deployed and are working in test mode. For example, the main functionality of the service "Payments for medical care" has been launched: 337 medical organizations are connected to it, more than 1000 bills have been paid since July. Another GIS that will be deployed on the Gostech platform is the Quality Assessment of Medical Care. In the second half of December 2021, the development of the basic MHIF service, the Unified Register of Insured Persons, should be completed, on the basis of which a digital insurance policy should be launched in July 2022.

Revolutionary plans for reforming state informatization are officially presented - "Gostekh" and "Gosmarket"

On October 23, the Government's coordination center hosted the first official presentation of the Gostech platform. The TAdviser correspondent listened to all the speakers and recorded their main points.

The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Chernyshenko, Head of the Ministry of Digital Science Maksut Shadayev, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development Alexander Shoytov, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Health Pavel Pugachev, Director of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Gostekh" Vasily Slushkin, other representatives of federal departments, as well as heads of digital transformation of regions - Kaliningrad, Tyumen, Belgorod, Sakhalin regions, Perm Territory and the city of St. Petersburg.

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Presentations of all participants of the event are available at the link.

During the presentation, they discussed the reasons for creating the platform, approaches to its development and filling, the specifics of using services and applications deployed in Gostekh. Plans were announced to amend the regulatory framework and the stages of the project. Representatives of regional authorities shared their experience in the development and implementation of information systems, voiced their wishes for the platform being created.

Prerequisites for the creation of the Gostech platform

According to Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Chernyshenko, the state spends huge amounts of money on IT. The total cost of owning regional and federal information systems is 460 billion rubles per year. Half of this amount is federal budget expenditures, half - regions. Departmental programs of digital transformation of federal executive bodies (FOIV) for the development of information systems laid 170 billion rubles for three years. Moreover, this amount implies only the development of software and does not include hardware costs.

As Dmitry Chernyshenko noted, 80% of the functionality of the existing GIS coincides, but there is no possibility of reusing it. In addition, developers are expensive. Moreover, the country is sorely short of qualified personnel, the deficit is about one million specialists. Therefore, today it is simply impossible to work as before, when each FEI created information systems independently and built its own data center.

The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media (Mintsifra) Maksut Shadayev also believes that it is impossible to design and create systems as it was done before. Now there is no time to write the terms of reference for six months, none of the heads of departments is ready to put up with such deadlines. Moreover, the existing IT paradigms make it possible to do everything much faster by using and reusing ready-made software components.

The tasks that Gostech solves

According to Maksut Shadayev, the main task of introducing the platform is to provide the best technologies on the market according to the model "you pay only for what you use."

"Gostech" will allow us to move to the model, when the customer will pay only for what he uses. Within the framework of the platform, we will offer the market the best existing technologies that will be in demand by departments. The developed service should be available to other customers in the shortest possible time, taking into account security. Regional departments that do not have the necessary resources will be able to connect to the platform and use ready-made services. Given the increase in the overall level of digital literacy in government agencies, additional settings will also be able to be made by department experts using the Low Code/No Code platforms, "Maksut Shadayev said.

In general, the head of the department responsible for the development of the Gostech platform identified five basic tasks:

• attract advanced technologies to the public sector;
• implement the best development experience;
• ensure the rapid launch of state and regional services;
• create a unified technological environment and a safe infrastructure for the development of state services;
• Implement uniform development management standards.

Financial incentives to fill the Gostech platform

As Maksut Shadayev said, it is planned to distribute 600 million rubles within 3 years to support the creation of regional services using the Gostech tools. Moreover, 300 million rubles have already been pledged for 2022. According to the minister, in order to support the regions, it will be possible to attract even a larger amount than planned. In addition, today FOIVs submit requests for additional funding for the development of state information systems, priority will be given to those who intend to use the Gostech tools for development.

Private developers are supposed to be interested in the ability to implement their services through the Gostech platform without going through the public procurement procedure. According to Maksut Shadayev, the platform is open, and each developer can create services on it or even transfer existing developments, fulfilling all existing requirements for embedding into the platform.

Regulatory regulation

According to Maksut Shadayev, the issue of transferring the development of all state and regional services to the Gostech platform from 2024 is being discussed, so all federal departments and regions need to prepare for this.

Director of the PKU "Gostekh" Vasily Slushkin said that today it takes 1.5-2 years to put the system into operation with a full life cycle, since the only way to start the system is a cascade life cycle. To change the situation, it is necessary to amend the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 06.07.2015 No. 676 "On the requirements for the procedure for the creation, development, commissioning, operation and decommissioning of state information systems and further storage of information contained in their databases." If you legally allow the use of an iterative life cycle, then the GIS launch speed will increase several times. And the time from the start of development to the first launch will be reduced to 3-6 months.

To ensure the reuse of software components, it is necessary to amend the Resolution of January 30, 2013 No. 62 "On the National Fund of Algorithms and Programs for Electronic Computers." The concept of a repository of programs that can be reused and the concept of an open license should be introduced. The corresponding document has already passed all the approval procedures and is in the government apparatus. It can be accepted until the end of October 2021.

How to get on the platform

According to Vasily Slushkin, access to the platform can be obtained in several ways. Thus, authorities and institutions can apply through the Ministry of Digital Development and, in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 12.10.2020 No. 1674 "On Conducting an Experiment on the Creation, Translation and Development of State Information Systems and Their Components on the Unified Digital Platform of the Russian Federation" Gosteh "to be included in the experiment. After the completion of the experiment, from May 31, 2022, the application can be submitted through the Gostech portal.

The director of PKU Gostech recalls that in September 2021, new provisions were adopted on the inclusion of new components. Now, if the state authority wants to contribute a particular product to the Gostech platform, then after checking quality and safety control, consideration at the architectural council and the presidium of the legal commission, the decision can be made to the platform.

If the software belongs to a private company, then it can also get to the platform after passing the established bureaucratic procedures.

Development without programming and "Gosmarket"

First Deputy Director of Gostech PKU Vladimir Rakhmanov added that products on the Gostech platform should support the Low-code/No-code concept. That is, the creation of new services will not require programming. In his opinion, the level of experts in the departments is high enough for them to be able to build services from ready-made modules. This approach will make it possible to reuse the components as much as possible and solve the problem of a shortage of qualified specialists.

According to Vladimir Rakhmanov, state service customers, forming a technical task for developers, will understand which modules are unique and which are typical, and will indicate this.

All applications of the Gostech platform will be available on the Gosmarket technology marketplace. On this site, government service developers will be able to purchase ready-made modules and standard products so as not to waste time creating them, but to focus on writing a unique part of the systems, which will save time and improve the quality of development.

By 2024, the share of unique development should be significantly reduced in favor of applications from the State Market.

Migration of services to the Gostech platform

According to Ivan Operchuk, deputy director of the Gostech PKU, there are more than 4.1 thousand information systems in Russia, more than 3.3 thousand of them are regional. Today the task is to transfer these systems and services to the Gostech platform. However, migration requires reengineering systems, it does not make sense to transfer systems and services as they exist now. Migration of systems should bring real improvements to the lives of citizens and businesses. In addition, the platform and system should be used as efficiently as possible after the migration. Based on these principles, Gostech PKU has developed principles for transferring client and support systems.

Client systems can migrate to the platform in two ways: as part of the design of the client path of the domain; within the framework of ranking according to the method (by the degree of maturity of the system and the mass of requests).

Criteria for assessing the maturity of client systems:

• online by default;
• feedback;
• online payment;
• proactivity;
• time of filling in the forms is not more than 10 minutes;
• Selecting a notification channel
• One-time data entry
• status tracking;
• Quick search for services/services
• use on mobile devices;
• iterative form filling;
• accessibility for persons with disabilities.

Support systems are evaluated by the level of digital maturity and planned load. So, it makes no sense to transfer a small regional system to the platform if it can be replaced with a typical solution that will be used not in one, but in many regions at once. Moreover, after the reengineering of such a system, Gostech is likely to transfer other small systems closely related to it, the migration of which would not make sense under other conditions.

Criteria for assessing the maturity of support systems:

• Reusable
• Binding to a software vendor
• Binding to equipment supplier
• microservices;
• availability of business logic in DBMS;
• containerization;
• Automatic scaling
• pilot zones;
• Smooth replication of changes
• load quota arrangement;
• horizontal scaling.

Stages of organization of transition to Gostech:

• August 2021 - Ranking method developed and tested;
• September 2021 - Feedback session on the methodology was held;
• October 2021 - Revision and publication of the methodology based on the results of testing;
• November 2021 - FGIS CI: data collection form according to the method;
• December 2021 - The FGIS CI has made assessments on information systems;
• April 2022 - Ranking and formation of a plan for the transition of regional systems to Gostech.

Domain approach to launching services on the Gostech platform

Ivan Operchuk from PKU Gostech says that the Gostech platform is built in accordance with the domain principle. Domains are the sphere of activity of the state belonging to one subject area. Domain architecture is consistent with enterprise architecture and consists of business architecture, application architecture, information architecture, and technical architecture. When designing a domain, the needs of the client and all his life situations must be taken into account. This approach considers all the client's activities within the subject area at all levels - federal, regional, municipal.

The domain's area of ​ ​ activity is very extensive and contains hundreds or even thousands of client paths. Therefore, you need to approach the design of client paths and services iteratively. Implementing first the most popular, and then returning and creating the next priority client paths and services.

The first domains on Gostech:

health care; science and education; public transport; construction and housing and communal services; public administration.

Experience with domain approach in healthcare

Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Pavel Pugachev spoke about the approaches to creating the Healthcare domain. It is important that health care is human-centered, and doctors get rid of unnecessary bureaucracy, spending more time on patients. To improve the quality of medical services, an effective domain structure is needed. Today, the main data array is at the regional level, with medical organizations, while the information is very poorly used. As a result, so-called industry wells are formed. The transition from industry wells to a domain structure will make it possible to de-publish master data, forming a single base for all industry services and departments.

According to the representative of the Ministry of Health, as part of the pilot project for the creation of the Healthcare domain, a group of more than 100 experts analyzed client paths for 6 weeks. As a result, the top 10 directions were allocated for priority actions taking into account the needs of patients and the industry. The business architecture has been identified, more than 40 services with high replication potential in the regions have been identified. Based on the requirements of the business architecture, the technological architecture is designed. The development was carried out from the needs of man. The ultimate goal of the entire transformation of the industry is to move to personalized medicine, providing assistance exactly to the extent that each specific person needs it.

According to Pavel Pugachev, it is planned to add a platform on top of the existing layer of legacy systems, which includes a digital profile of a doctor, a digital profile of a patient and a digital profile of a medical organization. The transition from master data to a digital profile will allow you to receive information about the current state of a medical organization, doctor or patient in real time. This will provide an opportunity to model processes and start using recommendation medical systems. Which in turn will reduce the number of medical errors and increase the quality of medical services. By 2030, legacy systems will be gone, and everything will switch to a single platform principle.

The development of GIS physical education and sports was added to GosTech

In October 2021, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a government decree "On Amendments to the Regulation on an Experiment on the Creation, Translation and Development of State Information Systems and Their Components on the Unified Digital Platform of the Russian Federation" Gosteh. " The new tasks of the state project included the development of the state information system "Unified Digital Platform" Physical Culture and Sport "(GIS FCiS), more precisely its following components:

• a component aimed at implementing electronic registration of citizens in the organization of sports training;
• a component that provides automated accounting of sports events in a single calendar plan of interregional, all-Russian and international physical culture events and sports events;
• a component that provides an automated process for assigning sports titles and sports ranks;
• a component providing an automated process for collecting, processing and analyzing statistics in the field of physical culture and sports.

According to the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Oleg Matytsin, the creation of a single platform for the industry will increase the availability of physical education and sports for residents of the Russian Federation using information tools and online services.

The same document Mishustin in October 2021 approved the possibility of participation of federal executive bodies, state extra-budgetary funds, state institutions and other organizations not specified in the provision - in agreement with the Ministry of Digital Development and on the basis of the approval of the presidium of the government commission on digital development.

The experiment on the creation, translation and development of state information systems and their components on the unified digital platform "GosTech" will last until May 31, 2022.^[33]

"Gostekh" is an open platform, anyone can indemnify components into it, provided that the requirements are met - the head of the Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev

Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of Russia Maksut Shadayev in an interview with TAdviser editor-in-chief Alexander Levashov spoke about approaches to creating the Gostech platform, stressing that he does not put an equal sign between Gostech and Sberbank, which is creating this platform.

"Gosteh" is an open platform, anyone can indemnify components into it, provided that the requirements are met, "the minister explained. - Sberbank is a provider of a comprehensive service for the components that it offers as part of Gostech, but this does not mean that the platform will be limited only to these services. We are now collecting the configuration of the "cloud" and proceed from the fact that there should be a competitive model: even one service can have different providers.

The full interview can be read at the link.

The Ministry of Digital Development is creating an interdepartmental working group on GosTech

The Ministry of Digital Development decided to create an interdepartmental working group to coordinate the activities of the participants in the experiment to create and develop state information systems and their components on a single digital platform "GosTech." The draft of this order was published on July 21, 2021 on the official website for posting draft regulatory legal acts^[34] of^[35].

Among the tasks of the working group are to consider issues and develop proposals for the creation, translation and development of state information systems and their components on the GosTech platform, and develop criteria for assessing the results of the experiment.

The tasks also include considering issues and preparing proposals for amending the legislation of the Russian Federation, necessary for the creation and development of state information systems and their components on the GosTech platform.

As conceived by the Ministry of Digital Development, the working group will submit reports to the government of the Russian Federation, including, among other things, proposals for the development and refinement of GosTech, proposals for the target architecture and data model of this platform.

The working group will include representatives of the Federal Investment Fund, state extrabudgetary funds, the autonomous non-profit organization Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation, the Russian Export Center and other organizations operating in the field of IT by agreement. The structure of the working group should be approved by the order of the Ministry of Digital Development.

Meetings of the working group will be held at least once a month.

In a presentation for Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshenko Sber revealed the global ambitions of the Gostech platform

At the disposal of TAdviser were the presentations of Sberbank and the Ministry of Digital Development about the Gostech platform, prepared for the strategic session, which was held on April 10, 2021 under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko with the participation of the head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs Maksut Shadayev and the President of Sberbank German Gref.

In the absence of public official information about Gostekh, the slides make it possible to understand the course of thought of the platform developers.

A brief summary of TAdviser after reviewing 177 presentation slides:

The 900-mile tender for the Gostekh experiment won in 2020 gave Sberbank a bridgehead for deep immersion in the topic of building state information systems. Having analyzed the state of affairs in this area, Sberbank offers the state a whole set of its own products and services for building a platform on the basis of which the application services of departments can function. The bank's ambitions go beyond software products and consulting services, extending to the computing infrastructure. The bank proposes to accredit and choose IT contractors with whom departments work through the marketplace, reducing the departments' dependence on them to zero. The regulator, which is the Ministry of Digital Development, still doubts the applicability of Sberbank's technologies "head-on." They should be adapted by the recently created Gostech institution, subordinate to the Ministry of Digital Development

Why the current state of affairs is bad

The first slides, authored by Margarita Repina, head of the Gostech program from Sberbank, describe the current state of affairs with the development of information systems in departments: slow and expensive, unreliable and unsafe.

A more mundane look at the current problems of informatization of the public sector was presented by Ivan Operchuk, who works in the Gostech institution, created as a summon of the Ministry of Digital Development. State IT systems are developed from scratch as works of art, and 5 years after creation, every second system requires complete processing, he said.

How Problems Can Be Solved

The following slides of Operchuk were devoted to the steps aimed at solving existing IT problems in the public sector: the transition to a microservice architecture and a single database of open source technology and application services, vendor independence, etc. is necessary (scroll through the gallery).

According to the presentation of Sber Tech CEO Andrei Voinov, the Gostech platform should replace typical components of state IT systems: logging, monitoring, BPM, load balancing, authentication and authorization, event streaming, etc. (scroll through the gallery).

The dream process for a departmental developer, according to Voinov, involves only programming business logic. In this case, a template with typical components must be created automatically.

Experiment drags on

In the meantime, from November 1, 2020 to May 31, 2022, an experiment is underway to create and develop state information systems and their components on the Gostech platform.

The main parameters of the experiment were highlighted by Alexey Gorobtsov, Director of the Department for the Development of Services and Client Experience of the Ministry of Digital Development.

By April 2021, the experiment is at the stage described by the following slides by Margarita Repina from Sberbank (scroll through the gallery).

The conclusion of the Ministry of Digital Development at the current stage is that Sberbank's technologies cannot be used head-on for digitalization of the state, and the Gostech institution created under the ministry should be engaged in their adaptation.

Alexey Gorobtsov in his presentation wondered "how to live after 31.05.22" when the experiment is completed. And in the first proposal, he announced the need to extend the experiment (at the end of June 2021, when this text was published, the Ministry of Digital Development prepared a draft government decree extending the experiment until December 31, 2023).

Gorobtsov's next slides were devoted to the refinements of the regulatory framework required to introduce Gostekh and create state information systems on its platform (scroll through the gallery).

Vladimir Rakhmanov from the institution of the same name under the Ministry of Digital Development also gave his view on the regulatory restrictions of Gostekh.

IT Migration Approaches to Gostech

The architectural approaches to the creation of Gostekh and the migration of IT systems to this platform in the presentation were presented by the general director of Sber Tech Andrei Voinov.

As an example, he cited a set of services that arise at the birth of a child. Part of the IT systems involved in the provision of these services, according to Voinov, are not targeted. They should be migrated to Gosteh, the expert believes (scroll through the gallery).

Andrei Voinov proposes to borrow a general approach to choosing systems to be migrated to the platform from Sberbank.

Integration of IT systems on the Gostech platform

According to Andrei Voinov, IT systems should be integrated on the Gostech platform not through SMEV, but through the Synapse system - Sberbank's own development (Sberbank is trying to sell the same system to Russian Railways).

SMEV should remain as an integration bus for outdated systems outside Gosteh.

Marketplace

For flexible and prompt involvement of developers of departmental systems based on the Gostech platform, its ideologists propose to create a marketplace of accredited IT integrators. In the current legal field, the conclusion of the contract takes about 3 months, and the marketplace will reduce this time to 30 minutes, says Margarita Repina from Sberbank.

Data center for Gosteh

Main article: Sberbank MegaData Center in Balakovo

The head of Sber Tech, Andrei Voinov, in his presentation also proposed to use the new data center of Sberbank as an IT infrastructure, which the bank is building for its own needs in the Saratov region.

Unified IT Operation Processes

Separately, Andrey Voinov dwelled on the issues of operating state IT systems, proposing two scenarios: in the first Ministry of Digital Development he would have to develop the operation processes himself, in the second - order the development within the framework of a consulting project.

Sberbank is ready to develop uniform operation processes within a year in two stages.

Target organizational and functional model Gostech

The current model of interaction between the Ministry of Digital Science, departments, infrastructure supplier (GEOP) and platform (Sber) is complex and erratic, noted in the slide of Vladimir Rakhmanov from PKU Gosteh.

The target model is shown in the next slide. Two forks in it - who will be the provider of the first and second support lines (Sberbank or PKU "Gostekh") and who will become an infrastructure supplier (Sberbank or GEOP).

Development plans of PKU Gosteh

Separately, with the slides of Vladimir Rakhmanov, plans for the development of PKU Gostech and the transition of responsibility from Sberbank to this institution (scroll through the gallery) were revealed.

Road Map for Next Steps

Andrey Voinov's slides were devoted to scaling Gostekh.

The Cost + pricing method used in banks, mentioned on the second slide (scroll through the gallery), assumes that the costs associated with the provision of the service are calculated first, and then a certain percentage of the profit is added to them.

The fastest way to start working on the platform is to buy the entire PaaS service from Sberbank. An intermediate option is to buy only a license and a third line of technical support from the bank, and leave the infrastructure and the first/second lines to the Ministry of Digital Science.

In a separate slide, Voinov demonstrated international experience. In the United States, for example, more than 5 thousand government agencies use cloud services from Amazon.

From the final slide of the presentation, it follows that already in 2021, the developers of Gostekh intend to start work on a new state contract, and in 2022 conclude it and begin a new stage of work on scaling the platform.

Instructions for Gostekh from Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshenko

The protocol based on the results of the strategic session included instructions for most of the proposals made with deadlines in June-July 2021.

The Ministry of Digital Development, together with Sberbank, should submit to the government the architecture of Gostekh, work out the possibility of implementing services for government agencies on the basis of Gostekh in exchange for creating new information systems, as well as give proposals to exclude the dependence of departments on development companies.

At the same time, Gostekh's services should be open to a wide range of developers of state IT systems, follows from the text of the instructions.

The Ministry of Digital Development and Sberbank should develop criteria for the selection of created and modernized IT systems for implementation on the basis of Gostekh.

The same structures should assess the potential costs of using Gosteh after the experiment and determine the acquisition model, as well as work out the feasibility of transferring e-government infrastructure to Gosteh.

It is recommended that I give proposals for the construction of a data center for Gostekh at my own expense, as well as on the terms of its further use.

Finally, the Ministry of Digital Development and Sberbank should develop a regulation on Gostekh, as well as proposals for ensuring the information security of the platform.

2020

Sberbank will create the Gostech platform for 900 million rubles

In December 2020, the contractor of the Ministry of Digital Development for the supply of software and services for the experiment on the creation, translation and development of state information systems and their components on the unified digital platform "Gostekh" was determined. Only one application was received at the tender with the maximum price - from Sberbank, follows from the protocol published on the public procurement portal^[1].

The customer recognized the request as meeting the requirements of the auction and decided to conclude an agreement with the sole bidder at the maximum price.

The term of the contract is indicated on May 31, 2022. On the same day, it is planned to complete the experiment on the creation and launch of Gostekh. For details of what exactly is planned to be done as part of the experiment, see the block below.

In mid-April 2020, Sberbank first demonstrated to the Russian government the concept of the Gostech platform. The Ministry of Digital Development and the Analytical Center under the Government also took part in its development. As conceived by the authors of the idea, the platform is designed to expand the number of public services that citizens and businesses can receive remotely, deepen the digital interaction of government agencies with society and business, as well as increase the digital interdepartmental document flow.

Judging by the sites with vacancies, Sberbank has long begun to assemble a team for Gostech. The website HH.ru back in July in the description of "Sber Tech," the IT-subsidiary of Sberbank, said that it was forming a team of professionals to participate in a pool of federal projects, in particular, in the GosTech project.

As of the beginning of December 2020, the formation of the team continues, apparently. So, since November, "Sber Tech" has been looking for the chief architect in the project "to promote the digital platform" GosTech "for external clients, using new generation solutions PaaSSaaS/." The project, as indicated in the vacancy, is at the initial stage of development. Also at the beginning of December, Sber Tech is look for a project manager for the implementation of IT systems within the framework of the Gostech platform, a specialist in load testing, an implementation engineer and platform support, etc.

In the last of the above vacancies, the technology stack used on the project is given. It includes Java E2E-based applications; Queue managers (, Apache Kafka ZeroMQ servers) applications (WildFly architecture); JBoss storage systems (,,); PostgreSQL Oracle DB Apache Ignite DevOps (Jenkins, BitBucket, Ansible); monitoring systems (, ELK, Zabbix Grafana,); cloud technologies, systems (, virtualizations OpenShift VMWare,,); Kubernetes Docker scripting languages ​ ​ (Bash, powershell, Python); Unix-like operating systems (,). RedHat CentOS

Ministry of Digital Development is look for the operator of the Gostech platform

On November 21, 2020, the Ministry of Digital Development announced a tender, following which the technological operator of the GosTech system of interaction between citizens, government agencies and business will be chosen. The initial (maximum) contract value is 900 million rubles.

Applications will be accepted until December 7, 2020. As reported on the public procurement website, a contract will be concluded with the winner of the auction until May 31, 2022. The contractor will have to launch a virtualization service for the GosTech platform and ensure the operation, development of the platform and participation in the placement of the development platform within the framework of the infrastructure of the participants in the experiment.

The technical building lists the main goals and objectives of using the GosTech platform:

• organization of the production and technological process of software development for the creation of state information systems (GIS) and their components, including using cloud technologies;
• testing of approaches to the use of hardware and software systems in order to create GIS and their components;
• Provide a unified application development environment and platform components that provide the required level of reliability, security, and scalability
• creation of conditions for shortening the terms of certification for information security requirements in the FSTEC of the state information systems and their components developed using the platform, including through the use of ready-made components: identification, authentication, authorization and audit (including registration of security events), ensuring compliance with the requirements of the FSTEC of Russia on information security.

In addition, the platform is created for comprehensive interaction between citizens, government agencies and business, as well as for "access to high-quality and quickly created functions of state information systems and their components."

In accordance with the customer's requirements, the platform must support simultaneous operation of at least 450 users with a response time in normal mode of not more than 10 seconds. The response time of applications developed on the platform should not exceed 5 seconds.

In addition, the platform should support a total of more than 100 million users and the simultaneous operation of at least 120 thousand users within mobile and web applications created using the platform.

The guaranteed level of availability of the platform component access service should not fall below 99.5%. When developing applications, the platform must ensure that the API is published in the appropriate registry.

The platform must have toolkits to automate infrastructure provisioning for and support the production process of creating applications. The terms of reference also talk about a set of auxiliary components and tools that facilitate and speed up the implementation of business logic of applications, the implementation of various types of integrations, the organization of storage and processing of data, machine learning.

The winner of the tender will have to render to the Ministry of Digital Development the following set of services:

• services for the transfer of non-exclusive rights to the software included in the Platform;
• services for organization of operation, software DEV-, TEST-stands of the platform;
• services to ensure the operation, administration and uninterrupted operation of the platform software at the DEV-, TEST-stands;
• Services for installation of virtualization environment and platform on the complex of Customer's technical means for three Departments;
• services to ensure the operation, administration and uninterrupted operation of the platform software on the PROD-, PSI-, NT-stands for three departments;
• services for transferring the current platform distribution.

As a source in the government told Kommersant, we are talking about buying a software solution that will become the core of the GosTech ecosystem. According to the interlocutor of the newspaper, the largest companies that claimed the status of the platform operator already have a ready-made core, so the Ministry of Digital Development decided to buy a license, and not order expensive development from scratch.

Commenting on the costs of the project, the source of the publication called 900 million rubles - "ceiling." The government cannot allocate more than this amount to the core, he added. Experts previously interviewed by Kommersant estimated the development of the platform from scratch at 4-6 billion rubles of budget funds.

It is possible that as a result, potential contractors will take the auction price to zero and Ministry of Digital Development will receive the IT system for free, - said Ivan Begtin, director of the Information Culture ANO.

He was surprised by the amount of 900 million rubles, noting that the 10 largest GIS in Russia costs the country 20 billion rubles a year. According to the expert, Ministry of Digital Development so wants to resolve the conflict between Sberbank, VTB, Rostelecom and Russian Post for the right to become the operator of GosTech.

Initially, it was planned to create a single platform for all public services on the basis of the developments of Sberbank. Subsequently, VTB, Rostelecom and Russian Post in a letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin proposed their own solutions.

A source Kommersant in one of the largest IT companies says that large joint projects with the state are investments in the future, and if the development of the platform does not bring profit, then it is monetized in the future, since "it actually forever receives the largest client - the state, as well as access to data of a huge number of individuals and legal entities."^[2][3][4]

An experiment is being launched to create state IT systems on the GosTech platform

From November 1, 2020 to May 31, 2022, an experiment will be held on the creation and development of state information systems and their components on a single digital platform "GosTech." Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1674 of October 12, 2020, regulating the conduct of this pilot, was published on the portal of legal information of the government.

As part of the experiment, the creation, translation and development of state information systems and their components will be tested, which provide comprehensive interaction between citizens, the state and business on the GosTech platform. One of the tasks is to assess the possibility of integrating the e-government infrastructure with GosTech.

It is also necessary to determine the financial efficiency and convenience of using the GosTech platform when creating state information systems and their components.

The platform will be created by the supplier, which is planned to be determined later as a result of the auction. It will subsequently ensure its technological functioning and development.

According to the decree, the participants in the experiment are Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Sports, Rosreestr, the Federal Property Management Agency, the MHIF, the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation, the Russian Export Center and others.

In agreement with the Ministry of Digital Development, various government agencies and legal entities can optionally take part in the experiment, ensuring the implementation of the goals of the experiment, the document says.

It follows from the document that departments - each in their own sphere - will perform the functions of operators of state information systems created or developing within the framework of the experiment and their components for the integrated interaction of citizens, business and the state.

Digitalization is a radical change in processes and IT automation. Obviously, one doesn't work without the other. No IT will save design errors. "GosTech" in our understanding is a complex production process that covers the entire cycle from idea to implementation and operation. Figuratively speaking, these are rails, moving along which it is difficult to turn to the side of the road. In this regard, it would be a mistake to consider GosTech exclusively as an IT platform. We put much more meaning into this project, up to changing the regulatory regulation of this area, "TAdviser Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development Dmitry Oguryaev explained.

He clarified that the GosTech experiment is aimed at achieving progress in five main areas: speed of implementation of digital solutions, reliability and security, costs of state InformSystems, quality in various aspects.

In different industries, pipelines are born from time to time, allowing you to make a breakthrough in your industries. These are Ford in the automotive industry, McDonalds in the fast food segment, Citibank in the financial sector. The implementation of GosTech will make it possible to make a conveyor in the field of state digitalization, - said Oguryaev.

The government decree provides that the Ministry of Digital Development, within the framework of the experiment, will form an interdepartmental working group to coordinate the activities of all participants, develop criteria for assessing the results of the experiment. And together with the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation, the department will have to determine the requirements for the platform, including the list of processed during the experiment.

Together with the FSB, FSTEC and other participants in the experiment, the Ministry of Digital Development should provide methodological support for its implementation and form requirements for organizational and technical measures to protect information.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications plans to launch the first services on the platform by the end of 2021

In mid-July 2020, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications announced plans to launch services on a single digital platform "Gostech," designed to provide public services in electronic form, by the end of 2021.

According to TASS, citing a document published by the ministry, as part of the experiment, which is planned to be carried out before December 31, 2021, "services for interaction between citizens, business and the state on the rental of state property, services within the framework of the compulsory health insurance system" will be launched.

In addition, it is planned to launch services aimed at the convenience of cadastral activities and the provision of services for the implementation of cadastral works, and services aimed at increasing the convenience of real estate transactions (Rosreestr).

The result of the experiment should be a report of the Ministry of Communications to the Government of the Russian Federation on the assessment of the results of the experiment, as well as proposals for the development and revision of the GosTech platform and for the necessary changes in the legislation of the Russian Federation.

In addition to the Ministry of Communications, the participants in the experiment are:

• Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation, Federal Property Management Agency;
• Federal Compulsory Health Insurance Fund; Rosreestr;
• state institutions, other legal entities ensuring the implementation of tasks that have expressed a desire to take part in the experiment on a voluntary basis in agreement with the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation;
• other organizations, individual entrepreneurs, as well as citizens who agreed to participate in the experiment on a voluntary basis;
• a provider of a development platform, which is a set of technology components and services that allow you to develop and operate application software.^[5]

The Gostech platform will not have a single operator

At the end of June 2020, it became known that Gostekh would not have a single operator. The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications excluded the mention of specific companies from the revised version of the draft resolution on the experimental launch of the electronic government platform.

According to the newspaper, the Kommersant project can include both,  Sberbank which was the initiator of the project, and its competitors in the person of the consortium VTB and "."Rostelecom

According to the head of the group for the provision of services to companies financial sector Deloitte Maxim Nalyutin, the most likely competitor to Sberbank is the alliance of VTB and Rostelecom, which is already working on the formation of the platform. big data

If a system is created at the expense of an investor, he will be able to make money on the product, so the project can become commercially profitable, he believes. Nalyutin added that earnings can be formed through direct commissions or indirect income through more comprehensive work with the user both within the framework of Gostekh and within the perimeter of the services of the investor himself.

Deputy General Director of Softline for work with national projects Andrei Sholokhov, in a conversation with the publication, expressed the hope that the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications did not prescribe a single operator "Gostekha" not only because of the financial competition of state corporations, but also because of the understanding of the complexity of developing the platform and the requirements of its openness and wide adaptation in the market.

Choosing a platform from those available on the commercial market is a good solution, but now there are no Russian vendors who can offer a truly competitive application development platform, while the use of several existing internal developments of Russian state corporations carries significant risks, Sholokhov argues.^[6]

Proposals for the project from Russian Post, VTB and Rostelecom

On June 9, 2020, it became known about the plans of VTB, Rostelecom and Russian Post to take part in the development of the Gostech e-government platform. They presented their proposals for the project in a letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Kommersant writes with reference to this document.

VTB, Rostelecom and Russian Post support the creation of the Gostech platform, but offer to use not only Sberbank's tools for it, but also their developments, as well as use the capacities of Gosblak, the State Unified Cloud Platform (GEOP).

In addition, the letter says that in order to form a list of Gostekh solutions, access to the widest possible number of developers, non-discriminatory integration and the absence of non-free software from foreign manufacturers are required. It was also proposed to create an interdepartmental working group to develop standards.

According to Andrei Sholokhov, director of development of national projects at Softline, "Sberbank's proposal is actually the development of the idea of ​ ​ GEOP." He notes that the proposal of VTB, Russian Post and Rostelecom is that "two systems are not needed, the new functionality can be created on the basis of GEOP with the disposal of previously made investments."

Every major Russian cloud provider would like to provide a platform for data processing to the state, and if it is impossible to head or monopolize such a service, IT companies and ecosystem owners insist on at least equal access, says KPMG Sergei Vikharev, director of the consulting group on promising technologies in Russia and the CIS.

Tens of billions of rubles spent now on maintaining and developing their own services and infrastructure of individual departments can probably be somewhat optimized by excluding duplication of functionality and combining data, the expert told the publication.[7]

Platform concept from Sberbank

In April 2020, Sberbank presented the concept of a technological platform for the GosTech state. In this document, the bank, among other things, proposed organizing services for renting state property and obtaining a Campus Management compulsory medical insurance policy in electronic form, and in the future, transferring all processes of disposing of state property and medical insurance to it. Read more here.

2019: Konstantin Noskov's initiative - creation of GovTech analogue

At the end of May 2019, the then head Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Konstantin Noskov addressed of the, Dmitry Medvedev who at that time was the head of the Russian government, with a proposal for a reform plan for a digital breakthrough in the field of public services. One of the proposals concerned the creation of a Russian analogue of the Singapore organization GovTech.

In many countries - the leaders of digital transformation, specialized organizations are created - centers of competence. A well-known example of a Singapore-based organisation called GovTech. We observe the same in the leading Russian regions. In Moscow, in the Moscow region, there are also organizations that are engaged in ensuring the development of electronic government systems. These organizations provide both the development and monitoring of standards for the technological architecture of state information systems, and the direct development and operation of digital state platforms. We have these functions now completely outsourced. For a dynamic movement forward, changes are needed in accordance with the best practices, including world ones, "Noskov said at a meeting of the government commission on digital development on May 28, 2019.

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