Roman Shaikhutdinov: We are waiting for changes in legislation

More than 184 thousand Tatarstaners use state services. Significant obstacles restraining development of electronic state services are found in legal environment, Roman Shaikhutdinov said.

Authorities have been creating a single electronic information environment for several years. First innovations mainly concerned the work of government employees who started using electronic documents flow. Tatarstaners have felt global electronization since July 1, 2011 when state structures were forbidden to require information from citizens if it is available at other agencies in electronic format. Later on, authorities introduced the notion “digital inequality” when they started discussing lack of internet in remote settlements as a state problem.

In June 2012 the Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev approved the program “Information society”. 7 bln roubles meant for helping regions with realization of IT projects till 2020 were provided under the program.

Tatarstan is one of those regions where work in the sphere of IT projects and state services has already been arranged.