Speech at Joint Session of the State Council and the Council for the Development of the Information Society.Part 1
December 23, 2009
The Kremlin, Moscow
Совместное заседание Государственного совета и Совета по развитию информационного общества.
23 декабря 2009 года
Москва, Кремль
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Good afternoon, colleagues,
This is not the first time we are discussing the information society in our country. I wont hide the fact that I like this subject, and I hope you do too. Today we will continue our discussions on a practical note, paying particular attention to the question of spreading the use of information technology in the government sector.
Work in this area is underway in accordance with the Electronic Government Development Concept adopted in May 2008, and the plan for transition to electronic services provision, approved by the Government in October 2009. As you know, in accordance with our national Information Society Development Strategy, we have to ensure electronic provision of all state services by 2015. I stress that this means all state services, not just some of them, but all of them.
I also remind you that strategic information technology is one of our most important national development priorities. Depending on how you count them, our state and municipal organisations provide more than 1,500 different services. Seen from some other angles, the number is in the thousands or even tens of thousands. But people are still standing in lines to get certificates and approvals, have to come back over and over to officials on one and the same issue, and often simply have no information on the services they require.
The length of time all of this takes is another big issue. It takes more than a month to register property rights or obtain financial assistance, and that is if all goes well. As for obtaining a construction permit, this has become a notoriously difficult thing that takes years.
The experts calculate that around one million people every year turn to middlemen to help them get their cars registered. Why have these middlemen appeared? You would think this is a straightforward procedure. Elsewhere in the world it only takes a moment. Obviously, not everything here is so straightforward at all. Obviously there are more than enough problems, otherwise, why would all these people be turning to middlemen, why would there be a market for their services?
The transition to electronic provision of these services would obviously go a long way towards solving these problems. We have made some progress, but have still not seen fundamental change. It is good to see that the common state services portal opened finally in December. For now, it operates simply as a common state information service, and this is good, but it is not enough.
While I was preparing this speech this morning, I took a look at the www.gosuslugi.ru portal [the state services internet portal]. It is quite well organised, sets out the main groups of services, and is quite easy to use, but that is as far as it goes. It provides information, but does not as yet actually meet peoples needs and offer them electronic provision of these various services.
There is still a long way to go before people will be able to use this portal for applying for and obtaining payment certificates of fees, duties and so on, and before the whole system works in full-fledged interactive mode in general. The portal was opened only after considerable delay, as it was originally scheduled to open in January this year, and in this respect I remind you all that it is essential to keep on schedule. By the way, I would like to hear from our colleagues among the regional leaders and from other organisations about your own experience, how these kinds of portals work in your regions and organisations, if they are working, of course.
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