Putin ordered the purchase of domestic software and open state data.

[Stels]

Visiting Novosibirsk, Vladimir Putin made several important statements about the future of IT in the Russian government and society. According to the prime minister, the priority in public procurement should be given to domestic software, and “departmental databases” should become as open as possible.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made several keynote statements regarding the prospects for domestic information technologies in the country in general and in government in particular. The prime minister made all the statements in Novosibirsk at the meeting “On Improving the Efficiency of Public Administration in the Use of Information Technologies”.
Judging by Putin’s statement, one of the priorities of Russian IT policy will be the use of domestic software. “It will be correct if information on the share of Russian software products used by our infrastructure monopolies is publicly disclosed by state-owned companies,” ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
Putin emphasized that “a competitive domestic software product and IT technology should be given priority in public procurement. Of course, we did this for many products before the crisis, created preferences. I think that in such an important and complex field we should help our manufacturers, but act carefully. ” Vladimir Putin asked the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to work out the relevant amendments to the legislation.
Residents of the Novosibirsk Technopark today raised the question of using domestic IT products before the prime minister, complaining that state-owned companies prefer foreign software suppliers.
In response to this, Putin said that “We need to make it clear to us how much money is being spent on domestic products in the procurement structure of our state corporations.”
A separate statement by Vladimir Putin in Novosibirsk related to the openness of state data: “I believe that it is necessary to maximally open the information that accumulates in departmental databases,” quoted ITAR-TASS as saying. According to him, with the help of open databases "you can build effective mechanisms of public control over the actions of the authorities at all levels."

According to the head of the Government, the open information of “departmental databases” is not enough for small and medium-sized businesses in building long-term plans and identifying investment priorities. Putin believes that the only exception to the rule of openness may be documents classified as “secret” or particleboard.

Putin said that the institution responsible for the introduction of information technology will be introduced in Russian departments and regions.

“Given the scale and importance of the tasks, the issue of appointing a specific person in each department and region should be considered, a competent, responsible person who will oversee the implementation of information technologies and personify this responsibility,” ITAR-TASS quoted the words of the Prime Minister.

Putin emphasized that the costs of informatization should provide tangible savings in resources "so that people feel real, qualitative changes." The prime minister made a reservation that citizens should be able to make suggestions on how to make the use of information technologies in public administration more convenient.

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thank.
It is high time!

 

[Симферополь]

Thank! The correct directive!

 

[Орлан]

thank!

 

[Детективное агентство ИКС-Инфо.]

... judging by Putin’s speech, one of the priorities of Russian IT policy will be the use of domestic software .

Here it is worth hoping for : D

 

[Частный детектив. Тайный советник. Омск.]

Good news. Let's see how and when they will be implemented.
Victor, thanks for the stuff !!!

 

[Детективное агентство Тула]

Curious...

 

[Гудимов Анатолий Геннадиевич]

"Cadres decide everything ..."
But since May 2008 he has been the Minister of Communications and Mass Media. Shchegolev Igor Olegovich. Despite the mass of corruption scandals, he sits firmly in place. One of the "extreme" ...

Competitive cut
How the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, led by Igor Schegolev, is absorbing budget funds
The president of Cognitive Technologies Olga Uskova, whose company has repeatedly participated in government tenders, knows how public money will be spent. Last year, she told reporters that "kickbacks" on government contracts in the IT sector sometimes reach 75% of the state order. Moreover, they have grown to such astronomical sizes over the past 2-3 years.

No wonder the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin in early July announced the intentions of his department to conduct annual audits in the field of state informatization. The country's chief auditor is worried that "the income from informatization is now half the cost of it."

To understand why this happens, it is enough to analyze the purchases of the Ministry of Communications over the past 12 months.

According to the zakupki.gov.ru portal, over the past year, the country's main IT ministry announced a tender for stationery five times, spending about 2.7 million rubles in total. The department bought almost 2.5 thousand pieces of erasers, separately 850 erasers, hundreds of hole punchers and stationery stitches, 550 audio cassettes lasting 90 minutes, and even a “universal, metal trolley”.

Of course, employees of the Ministry of Communications have computers, printers with scanners, and other advanced equipment. Last year, the ministry attended to the acquisition of software. Specifically, MS Office Professional Plus 2007 Russian OLP - at first they bought twice 67 each, then another 66 and 50. In three cases, the winning companies set prices for their services approximately the same - somewhere around 500-600 thousand rubles. Whereas in a regular online store such an “office” costs about 2 thousand rubles. But the catch is not even that. The documentation for another competition - for the provision of integrated services for software and hardware of the departmental information system of the Ministry of Communications in 2010 - means that the winner will have to serve Microsoft Office 2000 Pro and 2003 Std - these applications are installed on the ministerial computers. This tender was won by the Federal State Institution “Russian Energy Agency” of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, which for 10 million rubles agreed to work, in fact, as the incoming system administrator.

Whether the department has its own system administrators is not known for certain. But the fact that the Ministry of Communications annually spends hundreds of thousands of rubles to improve the skills of its employees, including to learn "the basics of working on an IBM PC personal computer" is a fact.

When analyzing tenders of the Ministry of Communications, the question involuntarily arises: what do hundreds of employees of a state institution actually do? Almost everything is outsourced. In Soviet times, when there was no computers, no Internet, or even faxes, it was hard to imagine that a ministerial employee could not independently compose a "list of services assigned to the national postal service provider." But today Cominfo Consulting CJSC is working on this for 1.3 million rubles. The same company also became a contractor for 1.3 million "developing national standards in the communications industry in the field of quality of communication services," bypassing the Giprosvyaz industry institute, and for 2.8 million contracted to develop the "communications equipment industry section" in Commodity nomenclature of the foreign economic activity of the Russian Federation ", and for 1.3 million -" mechanisms of public-private partnership to create broadband access infrastructure ". “Amendments to the All-Russian product classifier in accordance with the newly adopted regulatory legal acts in the field of communications” by the forces of CJSC Cominfo Consulting will cost the budget 3.2 million.

At the end of October last year, IT Firm CJSC won a tender for the creation of an electronic document management system based on free software, offering 9.8 million rubles. The contract, as they say, for growth, because open source software for state authorities exists so far only in the minds of developers.

The ministry held an equally interesting auction in May this year. "The development and implementation of an information campaign to create a positive image of a public servant and increase the prestige of public service" cost the budget 3.1 million rubles. Moreover, the PR company Kros, which won this competition, previously developed the concept of the same campaign for the office of Igor Shchegolev for 700 thousand rubles.

"Improving the legal regulation in the field of personal data in the Russian Federation" of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media gave to a certain LLC InfoTehnoProekt for 3 million rubles. Judging by the public procurement portal, officials prefer to involve private contractors in the creation of bills. For example, the services of Park-Media-Consulting LLC in developing proposals for a bill on self-regulatory organizations in the IT industry cost the budget almost 3 million rubles. This organization for the same amount is still investigating the legislation of the Russian Federation with the aim of "determining the possibility and expediency of introducing the institution of self-regulation in the communications industry." But SvyazTelecomExpert LLC has developed several proposals for almost 17.5 million rubles: “to the draft Federal Law“ On Postal Communication ”(new edition)“ and “to amend the regulatory legal acts on the use of electronic signatures”.

Based on the information on zakupki.gov.ru, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media is also engaged in "researching contemporary problems and developing measures to stimulate small business." A tender with the same name last September was won by IR Direction LLC, which received 6.9 million rubles. A month earlier, this LLC, for 3.9 million rubles, agreed to carry out "methodological support for the preparation of an annual report on the results and main lines of activity of the Ministry of Communications of Russia as a subject of budget planning." And even earlier - "the development of a forecasting system for the socio-economic development of the communications industry, information technologies and means of mass communication for the medium and long term." It cost the budget 9.8 million.

A little-known LLC “IP-IP” will receive 14.8 million rubles from the state treasury for “developing a draft of the Guidelines for State Policy in the Field of Media”. Prior to this, IP-IP LLC had already become the owner of a state order from the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, which spent 9.1 million rubles on "researching the mechanisms of interaction between the subjects of the information space in Russia and abroad in order to increase the effectiveness of state policy in the field of mass media."

Note, the department of Igor Shchegolev is responsible for the widespread adoption of ICT. Obviously, officials should know everything about such technologies. But the "main directions of the development of ICT for the period until 2030" for signalmen, apparently, were a secret behind seven seals, and it was possible to solve it only by spending 5.9 million state rubles.

And on the "study of the main directions of creating the portal of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia, subordinate agencies and the service" Armada Soft CJSC will earn almost 8 million rubles. It remains to be happy for the company, whose close "friendship" with officials is obvious to all participants in the IT market: it will become the owner of such a large sum only for "researching the main directions of creating the portal." How much will the state directly cost to create a new ministerial site, and how bad is the old one?

However, the numerous contests in which unknown companies win are not yet a reason for accusing the Ministry of Communications of unprofessionalism. The possibility is not ruled out that they simply duplicate the activities of the ministry, which thus helps the "chosen" LLC and CJSC survive in difficult crisis conditions. This is partly confirmed by the fact that all companies that have won contracts for "research on the directions of creation," etc., according to the documents, must carry out sectoral research work for the needs of the ministry. And the result on them, according to the law, may not be, while the customer is obliged to reimburse the contractor all expenses.

Rostelecom, which, as you know, is on a special account with Igor Shchegolev, stands out here. A multi-million state order is given to the operator on a non-alternative basis. So, in February of this year, Rostelecom received a contract to provide communications for biopassport system facilities - from a central server to passport control points - worth about 651 million rubles. The second applicant, ZAO Synterra, was refused participation in the competition. By the way, communication costs in the biopassport manufacturing system turned out to be more than the costs of its operation. Many people remember last year’s scandal with the tender of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, which FSUE Research Institute Voskhod lost to Open Technologies 98 CJSC. At a nominal price of 512 million rubles. The CJSC requested 495 million rubles, and the research institute - a total of 197 million rubles. Later it turned out that Shchegolev’s deputy Dmitry Severov once worked in this company ...
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Igor Shchegolev (right) and Sergey Ivanov

Let's see where good intentions lead us : D

 

[Орлан]

Thanks, interesting stuff.
Well, pencils are certainly not cheap!

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thank!