Roman Shaikhutdinov takes part in Forum Russia ICT Day in Washington

On November 14 Russian Minister of Communication and Mass Media Nikolay Nikiforov, his deputies Mark Shmulevich, Aleksey Kozyrev and Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov took part in Forum Russia ICT Day in Washington.

During the forum Roman Shaikhutdinov told about infrastructure of electronic government. He told that Tatarstan is the first region in Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe by adopting LTE standard, Russia is the first country in the world to launch commercial network LTE-Advanced.

Moreover, according to the United Nations Organization rating, in 2012 Russia went from 59th to 27th place by the index of electronic government development. Other factors that reflect the state of ICT infrastructure in Russia are: 3G is available in all big Tatarstan settlements (90 per cent coverage), the country takes 4th place in the world by the number of LTE users, 5th place by the number of broadband Internet users, and 7th place in the world by the number of purchased personal computers.

Roman Shaikhutdinov also told about state electronic services, information systems “Electronic education in Tatarstan”, “Electronic health care”, the emergency services coordination system GLONASS+112, and “Open Tatarstan”.