2021: The Ministry of Digital Affairs estimated the digitalization of the Universiade-2023 at 4.5 billion rubles
The cost of digitalization of the Universiade-2023 in Yekaterinburg will amount to 4.5 billion rubles. On January 21, 2021 the director of the department of informatization and communication Sverdlovsk oblastiyury Gushchin reported about it.
We are faced with the task of forming information, communication and telecommunication infrastructure at the Student Games facilities that meet international requirements. The Ministry of Digital Affairs of Russia has developed a system project for creating the ICT infrastructure of the Universiade, he said in a conversation with TASS. |
According to Gushchin, regional co-financing of the digitalization project may amount to 1%. As part of the project developed by the Ministry of Digital Development, it is planned to deploy and support at the Student Games facilities at least 50 IT systems and ICT services. First of all, this is a unified information system for the preparation and conduct of the Universiade and the basic ICT infrastructure at the facilities, namely, a backbone data network, a passive network at the facilities, active equipment, a cable television system, a wireless communication system at the facilities, etc., explained the director of the Department of Informatization and Communications of the Sverdlovsk region.
At the end of December 2020, Rostelecom, by order of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, began developing a system project of information, communication and telecommunications infrastructure for the XXXII World Summer Universiade 2023 in Yekaterinburg. The cost of work will be 23.3 million rubles.
XXXII World Student Games 2023 will be held in the city of Yekaterinburg on August 8-19, 2023. The city was the only candidate for a sports event. It will be the 32nd summer Universiade in a row. Prior to this, Russia (taking into account the USSR) hosted two summer Universiades in 1973 (Moscow) and 2013 (Kazan). Also, once Russia hosted the Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk in 2019.[1]