Federal IT forum “Informatization as an incentive for Russian regions development” starts in IT park

Chairman of the Commission on developing information society of the Federation Council Ruslan Gattarov, Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov, Fujitsu Director General for Russia and CIS Vitaly Friedland, Microsoft President in Russia Nikolay Pryanishnikov, CEO of IT cluster in Skolkovo Igor Bogachev, and Director of High Technology Park “IT park” Anton Grachev took part in the first plenary session of “Informatization as a driver of country’s economic growth and increase of life quality in regions”. The moderator of the discussion was Deputy Chief Editor of “Vedomosti” newspaper Aleksandr Gubsky.

One of main missions of the forum is organisation of meetings of federal authorities, administration of Russian regions, and heads of big IT companies for discussing ways and priority areas of informatization of Russian regions at an independent platform, and exchanging best practices in IT projects implementation in social spheres.

Ruslan Gattarov focused on development of Electronic Government, an important project for Russia. He mentioned Tatarstan as a region that is quite successful in this issue.

Roman Shaikhutdinov welcomed the audience and said it is the first regional forum of this kind. It speaks about the increasing role of regional informatization in country’s management and interaction between citizens and regions.

Roman Shaikhutdinov noted the importance of “Public control”, electronic education and health care systems.

The Minister believes that informatization is the most efficient way of rendering state services, and providing conditions for comfortable mobile client-oriented product. Successful informatization is characterized by efficient ICT infrastructure, availability of client-oriented resources, and high-quality interdepartmental interaction, he said.