The Ministry of Digital Development stated that Russia had reached the list of sovereignty – foreign IT companies left the country.
Maksut Shadayev, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said at the Digital Limit forum that now the Russian IT industry is of increasing importance for development, since almost all foreign IT companies have left the country. About it writes “Kommersant”.
“If we talk about digital sovereignty, we have already achieved it, because foreign companies have already left the domestic market“, – said Shadayev.
At the same time, he said that the departure of IT specialists is not so large-scale, it did not lead to a particular danger to Russia. In addition, according to the technology companies in the country it is infected and the conditions for employees to stay. True, Shadayev admitted that they left “one of the most competent, professional employees who are definitely in demand on the market.” First of all, these are software performers.
The head of the Ministry of Digital Development also spoke about domestic software. As expected, only 20% of the software categories for economic and industrial tasks have “adequate mature growth counterparts.”
“If a company used subscription-based software, then it is clear that in fact it could no longer pay for this software … We are now trying to find a regulatory framework that would allow us to regulate this issue so that we still allow the company to use foreign software until the Russian competitive analogue is tested.“, the minister explained.
revealing that, according to media reports, in March about the departure of 70,000 IT specialists from Russia. In September, it became known that 6% of IT specialists had already gone abroad, and another 25% had done so within a year.