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2025: Belarus approved the concept of the country's sovereignty in the field of digital development until 2030
The Council of Ministers of Belarus approved by decree of December 31, 2024 No. 1074 the concept of ensuring sovereignty in the field of digital development of the country until 2030. This became known in January 2025.
According to the Ministry of Communications of Belarus, the concept determines the main components of the country's digital sovereignty, taking into account national interests and the place of the state in the international information space. The document lays the foundation for the formation of a unified technical and technological policy.
In the concept of sovereignty in the field of digital development, it is defined as the inalienable right of the state to manage information and communication infrastructure and information resources, exercise control over them and pursue independent policies in this area.
The document takes into account the problems of ensuring sovereignty in the context of rapid digital transformations in the world, the emergence of new risks and threats to the digital development of the state. The concept sees securing sovereignty as part of the country's information security.
The main goals of the concept are to ensure national interests in the field of digital development and the creation of a mechanism for ensuring the digital sovereignty of Belarus. The document provides for an integrated approach to managing the country's digital transformation.
The legal basis of the concept is the Constitution of Belarus, laws, regulatory legal acts of the president and other legislative acts governing relations in the field of digital development.
The approval of the concept is aimed at ensuring the protection of national interests in the digital sphere and the formation of an independent state policy in the field of digital development for the period up to 2030.
The document defines strategic directions and specific measures to ensure the digital sovereignty of the country in the context of global digital transformation and growing technological challenges.[1]
2020
Ministry of Communications of Belarus presented a state program for the digital development of the country
At the end of July 2020, the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of Belarus presented the concept of the country's state digitalization program for 2021-2025.
This document talks about the implementation of measures to create and develop a modern information and communication infrastructure, the introduction of innovative solutions in the sectors of the economy and technologies of smart cities, as well as ensuring the information security of such solutions.
The Ministry of Communications also intends to focus on improving electronic public services in order to ensure "uniform coverage by modern technologies of access to public services of the population of the entire country, excluding the formation of a" digital gap "between the city and the countryside," the ministry stressed.
Republican government bodies, as well as local executive and administrative bodies, will act as customers of the events of the state program being developed, since these measures will affect the development of smart cities technologies. It is planned to attract Belarusian IT companies directly for the digital transformation of the real sector of the economy.
According to the Ministry of Communications, it is also planned to develop augmented reality, wireless communication technologies, the Internet of things, the industrial Internet of things, robotics components, sensory and other areas.
 | As a result, it is planned to form a bank of standard solutions for digital development, which will allow the accelerated pace to introduce solutions functioning on the basis of advanced technologies in various sectors of the economy, the Ministry of Communications said in a statement.[2] |  |
The ministry noted that information technologies began to play a leading role in the life of modern society and the processes of economic development.
12 Belarusian banks to issue tokens to attract national and foreign currency
On June 10, 2020, it became known that the National Bank of Belarus allowed 12 banks in the country to issue tokens and conduct operations with them. For this, an experiment was initiated, which will begin on January 1, 2021 and will last until January 1, 2024.
Belarusian banks will be allowed to create, place, buy, alienate and store tokens through the mediation of residents of the High-Tech Park (HTP). Therefore, park residents will be responsible for the proper identification of bank token owners.
Banks will be able to sell tokens for currency and/or Belarusian rubles and pay interest or a specific amount to their holders. It will be possible to attract currency only from foreign citizens and companies.
Active transactions in the form of the acquisition of third-party tokens will also be allowed. It is assumed that participation in the experiment will be limited to 10% of the regulatory capital of banks. It is assumed that the National Bank will receive the authority to establish the specifics of banks conducting transactions with tokens and control such activities.
The following banks are invited to participate in the experiment on the creation and placement of tokens, making transactions with them:
- Belarusbank
- Belagroprombank
- Dabrabyt Bank
- Paritetbank
- Sberbank Bank (formerly BPS-Sberbank)
- Belgazprombank
- Bank BelVEB
- BTA Bank
- BSS Bank
- Bank "Solution"
- RRB-Bank
- Belarusian People's Bank (BNB-Bank).
The National Bank believes that conducting such an experiment will allow banks to offer a wide list of blockchain-based products.
It is worth noting that Belarus has become one of the first countries to fully legalize work with cryptocurrencies. At the end of 2017, Belarus issued Decree No. 8 "On the Development of the Digital Economy," which laid the foundation for the creation of a cryptocurrency industry in the country. The country's legislative framework is adapted to all aspects of cryptocurrencies - in particular, ICO, blockchain, exchanges and tokenized assets.[3]
Notes
- ↑ The Council of Ministers approved the concept of ensuring sovereignty in the field of digital development until 2030
- ↑ The Ministry of Communications has prepared a draft concept of the state program for the digital development of the country for 2021-2025
- ↑ National Bank wants to allow banks to issue tokens
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