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In June 2020, the launch price of the Digital Region was announced

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:41 am
Billion rubles, of which 70.3 billion rubles should be allocated from the federal treasury and 67 billion rubles from regional budgets.
The Ministry of Digital Development postponed approval twice. Thus, it was postponed to April 2021 to adjust the financial support. Then the project was moved to September due to the need to synchronize it with the plans for digital transformation of the regions. They had to be sent to the Ministry of Digital Development by September 1.

Now it turns out that the project may duplicate the regions' own projects usa whatsapp number list and other state projects on digitalization, including, according to a Kommersant source in the government, the Emergencies Ministry's "Safe City."
The experts interviewed believe that the "Digital Region" was initially a failure.

Alexey Sidorin, Director of Digital Solutions Development at Krok, believes that the project lacks specific goals.

"This is always a risk for large-scale cash injections. Now the project looks like a large piggy bank from which very different initiatives will be financed," he is sure.

Director of the R&D center of IVA Technologies, Viktor Petrov, emphasized that each region has its own specifics, budgets and management.

Sergey Ivanov, Director of Product Strategy at T1 Group, agrees with him.

“The leadership of each region knows the specifics of their regions very well and can productively organize digitalization at the local level,” he says.

Viktor Petrov calls public-private partnership with large corporations the working model for the digitalization of municipalities.

Pavel Svarnik, director of the development center of the company "Lanit-Integration", emphasized that this opportunity has existed for several years within the framework of federal law. But there are not many examples of its implementation.