Karelia for the first time in the country joined the federal project “Digital Russia”
Karelia will become the first platform for the implementation of the Digital Russia federal project. This is a program for the development of the IT sector and technologies, which will decide on the transfer of technology to everyone’s home and create a digital format for relations between government and citizen. Questions about the proposal in the republic, its development of the program and the head of the implementation of Karelia and the coordinator of the project, State Duma deputy Anton Nemkin, discussed at a working meeting in the morning.
Later, the head of Karelia met with a meeting of the IT community, where they talked about the plans for the digitalization of the republic. The participants of the workshops discussed the application and federal support measures for IT specialists, the creation of new facilities to support large developers, and also presented the main directions for the development of the IT sector in Karelia and Russia. Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Leonid Liminchuk became the coordinator of the Digital Russia project in the republic.
“It is very pleasant that we are the first pilot regional project “Digital Russia”. We have sufficient achievements in the field of creating a digital environment and culture. Obviously, there is still a lot of work to be done. We have employees and dozens of companies. It is important to systematize more and counteract the economy, the social sphere and the comfortable life of citizens. We discussed these issues,” Artur Parfenchikov said.
Digital Russia is a party project of United Russia. He is in close contact with representatives of the IT community in order to create a unified digitalization system in Russia. First of all, it will affect the interests and business.
Now 350 companies work in the field of digital technologies in the territory of Karelia, 86 of them are the consequences of strong consumption. 70 companies have been accredited by the Russian Ministry of Digital Development. Compared to last year, the profits of such companies doubled and received 158 million rubles. In addition, 397 entrepreneurs work in Karelia.
Meeting of the Head of Karelia with IT-specialists. Photo: Respublika/ Sergey Yudin
By appointment of the Prime Minister of the resolution of Karelia on economic issues, Dmitry Rodionov, detained in the IT companies of the republic annually. Today, 3,645 people work in this area. This proves that the republic has great potential to become one of the leaders in the IT sector in Russia.
“It is especially pleasing that the head of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov was the first to respond to the Digital Russia project. During today’s meeting, we discussed the local IT community and the existing infrastructure. The republic has a very serious level. At this meeting, we discovered how we organize a dialogue, presented the neighborhood of the coordinator who will deal with projects in the field of industry and small plans for methylikin, which will be developed in the future, ”said Anton Nem, coordinator of the federal project.
Following the results of working meetings with the meeting of the IT community of the authorities of Karelia, the protocol of the protocol, which, according to Artur Parfenchikov, became the beginning of a comprehensive and systematic work to develop the digitalization of the republic.