Russian government must go digital by 2015
Published: 23 December, 2009, 18:36
Edited: 28 May, 2010, 19:30
All Russian state services must be digitalized by 2015, President Dmitry Medvedev has said. He defined information technologies as one of the key directions for the country’s development.
"Russian government must go digital by 2015" -- you mean like the Estonian government did approximately 10 years ago already?
Medvedev is so right!! :D Making processes as efficient as possible = forward Go Russia, gooo!!
Yes, Marzipan6. Like Estonia did 10 years ago... using money of American taxipayers.
Bogdanov, since America sold Estonia out of sovereign national existence and into Soviet occupation at Yalta for about 50 years, it is only appropriate that American taxpayers make a small gesture by way of amends. In reality, America made both a small gesture (economic assistance, which ended numbers of years ago already) and a large gesture – its President apologised to Estonia for Yalta. Russia has so far made neither a small nor large gesture by way of atoning for fifty years of illegal Soviet occupation and oppression there. And by the way, Bogdanov, I do believe American taxpayers contributed quite few dollars to Russia since 1991, too, but Russia has not used them to set up e-government. In fact, no one seems to know what Russia used them for at all – the dollars seem to have vanished into a black hole. The economic aid Estonia received since starting out again from a point of almost absolute zero where Moscow dumped it in 1991 was certainly appreciated, but it was Estonian enterprise, foresight, expertise and persistence that has built up the country with that help, including building up its cyber-infrastructure. As we know, not everyone in the region has been able to accomplish the same.










Absolutely the right way to go, we need efficiency, visiting endless offices with huge queues, copying pro forma letters off the wall, going back and forth, asking this person then that one, wastes so much time for ordinary people. Much better to have it all online and migrate people to it as they are able to access it.