Review: Digitalization of the Public Sector

The leader in the rating of the largest IT suppliers in the Russian public sector in 2022 was the ICL group of companies. Its revenue in this segment reached 17.3 billion rubles. The second line of the rating is at BFT-Holding with revenue of 10.6 billion rubles. The third position was taken by the Softline group of companies with 10 billion rubles. from the implementation of projects in government agencies.

The total revenue of 40 participants in the rating at the end of 2022 amounted to 110.7 billion rubles. More...

Key Areas and Leading Agencies

Experts interviewed by TAdviser highlight several government agencies that are leaders in digital transformation. These are, in particular, the Federal Treasury, the Federal Tax Service, the Social Fund of Russia, the Accounts MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Chamber and the Central Bank of Russia. The unifying link is the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media.

The most priority digitalization projects of the industry are carried out within the framework of the federal project "Digital Public Administration" of the national program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation." Their implementation is aimed at the digital transformation of the public administration system, which will provide a new level of provision of services necessary to improve the quality of life of citizens and business development. More...

Estimates of the digital transformation of federal departments and ratings of managers

Priorities, Objectives and Achievements

Municipal and regional authorities are in a common vertical, so they implement the same programs as federal ones. At the level of each subject, a digitalization program was adopted, the key task of which is to integrate into the federal information structure, organize a similar information processing system and protocols of interaction between departments and entities.

Traditional leaders in digitalization among Russian subjects are Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Tatarstan, Yakutia, Novosibirsk region. According to experts, the point is not only that these regions have the largest IT budgets. They are the most open to the introduction of the latest technologies, dynamically adapt to changing market conditions: they quickly make decisions and withstand the plan for the implementation of long-term strategies. They also have a favorable atmosphere for business and state interaction, and IT in these regions significantly improves the quality of life of the population. More...

The introduction of artificial intelligence is becoming the most important factor in the development of the Russian Federation. In July 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined measures to support domestic developments in the field of artificial intelligence: state support for research centers in the field of artificial intelligence, expanding the coverage of companies with state participation that use or plan to use artificial intelligence mechanisms in their work, training specialists, etc.

National Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Russia. Chronicle of events

About 898.4 billion rubles will be invested in the development of civilian drones in Russia until 2030. This is stated in the passport of the national project "Unmanned Aircraft Systems" (ALS). According to the plans of the authors of the national project, 696.9 billion rubles for its implementation will be allocated from the federal budget, 143.6 billion rubles from regional, the rest from extrabudgetary sources.

State regulation of the drone market in Russia. Chronicle of events

Russia will adopt the law "On Technological Policy." It will define the tasks, goals and principles of technological policy, as well as consolidate the concept of technological sovereignty. In particular, the law will determine the list of subjects of technological policy, as well as spell out their powers and mechanisms of interaction.

The concept of technological development until 2030 was approved by the government in May 2023. The document was developed under the leadership of First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on behalf of the president. As Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin emphasized, the President of the Russian Federation has repeatedly emphasized the need to increase the capabilities of the Russian economy and stimulate the opening of new industries, as well as the creation of new jobs. The main task of the Concept is to ensure technological sovereignty by introducing the results of domestic research and development.

Technological sovereignty of Russia. Chronicle of events

Import substitution of software in the public sector

According to the results of the first half of 2023, business and public sector spending on import substitution in the field of software reached 53% of total IT investments. For comparison: a year earlier, this figure was 45%. In the public sector, import substitution is faster than in the corporate market. However, the transition to Russian solutions is hindered by long project implementation periods. Against the background of growing demand for domestic software, it can take up to a year to fulfill orders in some cases. Meanwhile, according to the presidential decree of March 30, 2022, government agencies and companies-subjects of critical information infrastructure (CII) since 2025 are prohibited from using foreign software . This is due to the need to ensure cybersecurity. More...

Import substitution of software in Russia. TAdviser Overview

Import substitution of computer equipment and microelectronics

State Program for the Development of Electronic Component Base and Radio Electronics until 2025

Regulation of public procurement of radioelectronic products

IT in the public sector (May 30, 2023)

On May 30, the annual TAdviser SummIT 2023 was successfully held in Moscow. After the plenary session, participants and guests could choose an interesting thematic section for themselves and take part in its work. One of the most crowded sessions was the IT in the Public Sector session. Interest in this topic is understandable. Digital regions and departments are being created and actively developing right before our eyes. Each organization has its own software tools, architectural and methodological solutions that help them solve such ambitious tasks. Read more here.

• The unified digital platform "Gostech" to provide the best technologies on the market according to the model "you pay only for what you use"

• The state market is the state marketplace for IT services and applications.

• Automated workplace of a civil servant (WS HS) is a workplace that consists of software and services built on the basis of domestic software.

• Regional Management Centers (SDGs) have been created in all regions of the country for online interaction between citizens and officials.

• The unified data network combines the needs of departments in telecommunications infrastructure when providing public services, reduces the cost of providing services and increases the volume of their provision without increasing the cost (more).

• The State Unified Cloud Platform (GEOP) will unite the information systems of Russian authorities, as well as companies with state participation. The first concept of the development of the "state cloud" was approved in 2015, and in 2019 it was dramatically rebooted (more).

• The system of data centers of the Ministry of Finance will include a number of data centers in different cities of the country. The data center system is designed for its joint use by state bodies and organizations included in the system of the Ministry of Finance - the Federal Tax Service, the Treasury, Goznak and others (more).

• Electronic Government of the Russian Federation - a set of information systems for the provision of public services in electronic form. The only contractor for this project is Rostelecom (more).

• The Unified Register of the Population of the Russian Federation is a federal information resource, one of the components of which will be the Unified State Register of Civil Status Records (Registry Office) (more).

• GIS student registration system The contingent accumulates various information about children - from the moment of birth and registration of the child in the registry office. In addition, the system will contain information about educational institutions and teachers, statistical and regulatory reference information (more).

• Platon is a system that provides the collection, processing, storage and transmission in automatic mode of data on the movement of vehicles with a permitted maximum mass of over 12 tons (more).

• GIS Housing and Communal Services is designed to make the sphere of housing and communal services as transparent as possible by uniting all its participants: management and resource-supplying companies, federal bodies and local administrations, as well as residents (more).

• EGAIS - Unified state automated information system for accounting for the volume of production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products. The system is designed to carry out state control over the alcohol market in the Russian Federation (more).

• Uniform State Health Information System is a national information system created to provide effective information support to bodies and organizations of the health care system, as well as citizens within the framework of the processes of managing medical care and its direct receipt (more).

• GIS TEK is designed to collect, store and process information on the state of the country's fuel and energy complex and consists of industry and integration segments. GIS Fuel and Energy Complex is necessary to provide information support for the adoption and implementation of management decisions in the field of fuel and energy complex, analysis by specialists from the Ministry of Energy and the Russian Energy Agency (REA) of industry development trends, preparation of forecasts and planning of events (more).

• The unified information environment in the field of systematization and coding of information is designed to make the data in all information resources relevant and reliable for a radical change in the quality of public administration (more).

• Information systems of the Federal Tax Service (more).

• The plan for the development of domestic geoinformation systems includes a list of measures to use the results of space activities in the interests of economic modernization (more).

• The transition to online exchange between the Federal Tax Service and retail outlets will allow stores or individual entrepreneurs to register and deregister cash registers online through the website of the Federal Tax Service of Russia, monitor transactions and control business in real time, as well as reduce annual costs associated with the use of CCT (more).

• The state information system for labeling goods will provide total control of trade (more ).

• The informatization of the ground passenger transportation market will provide prerequisites for the emergence of systems of up-to-date and reliable informing of citizens, the creation of aggregators in bus transportation and the development of the market for remote booking of seats and ticket sales, as well as the development of the transport network of bus transportation (more).

As of October 2023, the TAdviser database contains information about more than 7.5 thousand projects completed in the public sector. Most often these are the introduction of electronic document management systems (1185 projects). In addition to them, the most popular solutions in the public sector include: video conferencing systems, BI, BPM, as well as various accounting systems.

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