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E-Inclusion in Russia:
Getting Ready Slowly, Riding Fast
Tatiana Ershova
General Director
Institute of the Information
Society
Moscow, Russian Federation
Innovation to Fight against Poverty:
Good Practices from All Over the World
Global Junior Challenge
Rome, Italy
3rd-5th October 2007
Contents
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Milestones
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Policy Development
Joining International E-Inclusion and Knowledge Economy
Related Endeavours
E-Readiness Assessments
E-Programmes and Initiatives
Russian Regions Getting Involved
IIS Framework for the Information Society
Development
Key Obstacles for E-Inclusion
Positive Developments
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Milestones: Policy Development
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1992: Russian telecommunications market got liberalised
and opened for private capital, incl. foreign capital
1998: Concept of State Information Policy was adopted
2000: Concept of Information Society Development was
prepared
2000: Draft Concept of Russian Innovation Policy for
2001-2005 was elaborated
2001: Draft Concept of the Legislation Development in
the sphere of Information and Informatisation was
prepared
2001: Information Security Doctrine was adopted
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Milestones: Policy Development
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2002: Multi-Stakeholder WG for the National Strategy
“Russia in the Information Age” was summoned under the
Ministry of Communications of RF (with IIS participation)
2006-2007: the draft National Strategy for Information
Society development in the RF:
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prepared by a multi-stakeholder WG under the umbrella of the
Security Council (with IIS active participation)
publicly discussed in all 7 federal districts of Russia
adopted at a Security Council meeting in presence of President
Putin
2006: Concept of Regional Informatisation was adopted by
the federal government
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Policy Drawbacks
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Concentrated on:
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Underestimated:
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government operation support with ICT
telecom infrastructure problems
information security issues
awareness raising and motivation building
key e-applications (e-learning, e-culture, e-health, etc.)
services for citizens
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Milestones: Joining International
Endeavours
International cooperation was one of the important
factors to overcome the policy drawbacks
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1997: Some Russian organisations (incl. IIS) joined the Global
Knowledge Partnership
1999: Russia entered the Global Bangemann Challenge
(Stockholm Challenge)
2000: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Okinawa
Charter of the Global Information Society
2000: Russia entered the Global Junior Challenge
2000-2001: Russia’s (President’s Office’s & IIS) representatives
worked in the G8 Digital Opportunities Taskforce (DOT Force)
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Milestones: Joining International
Endeavours
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2001: Russia (IIS) joined the Development Gateway program of
the World Bank
2000: Some Russian organisations started to participate in the
Northern e-Dimension programme
2002: Russia (IIS) joined the UN ICT Task Force and
maintained a secretariat for its Europe and Central Asia
Network
2003: Russia (Ministry of IT and Communications & IIS) actively
entered into the preparation of the World Summit on the
Information Society
2006: Representatives of Russia (Ministry of IT and
Communications & IIS) joined the Global Alliance on ICT and
Development
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Milestones: Russia E-Readiness
Assessments
This self-evaluation exercise revealed both key
obstacles and key catalyst for e-development
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2001: Russia e-Readiness and e-Needs
Assessment (IIS, within the Russia Development
Gateway project, infoDev Program, the World Bank)
2003: Russian Regions e-Readiness Assessment
(IIS, within the E-Russia program, Russian Ministry
of Economic Development and Trade)
2005: Russia e-Readiness Assessment (IIS, within
the ICT Infrastructure and e-Readiness Assessment
Project, info Dev Program of the World Bank)
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Milestones: Russia E-Readiness
Assessments
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2006: Russian Regions E-Readiness Index
2004-2005 (IIS& Sergei Shaposhnik)
2006: Analysis of ICT Development and Use
in the Regions of Russia (national report
prepared by IIS within the E-Russia program,
ordered by Federal Agency on Information
Technology)
2007: Russian Regions E-Readiness Index
2005-2006 (Information Society Centre & IIS)
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Milestones: E-Programmes and
Initiatives
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2001: Federal target programme “Development of an
Integrated Educational Information Environment for
2002-2005” was approved
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2001: Russian E-Development Partnership was
created on the initiative of 50 organisations and
companies from 10 Russian regions (led by IIS)
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now comprises 287 institutional and 13 individual
partners in 30 Russian regions and in 7 foreign countries
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Milestones: E-Programmes and
Initiatives
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2002: Federal target programme “ERussia for 2002-2010”, First Edition, was
adopted (focused on e-government)
2006: Federal target programme “ERussia for 2002-2010”, Second Edition,
was adopted (still focused on egovernment)
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Russian Regions Getting Involved
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1999: Separate Russian regions started designing their e-future
(Moscow, St. Petersburg, Evenkiya, …)
As of end of 2006:
– Informatisation strategies / concepts: 17 (~19%) – mainly
about government back-offices
– Informatisation programmes: 41 (~47%)
– E-government concepts and programmes: 28 (~32%) – with
elements of services for citizens
– E-government architecture: designed for Moscow City, Perm
Krai, the Republic of Mordovia, Tver region
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IIS Framework for
the Information Society Development
Human Capital
ICT Infrastructure
Information Industry
Information Society
Development Factors
Business Climate
State Regulation
Information Security and Trust
Information Society
ICT in Education
e-Business
Access and Use of ICT for
Development
e-Government
ICT in Healthcare
ICT in Culture
Use of ICT by Households /
Individuals
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Key Obstacles for E-Inclusion
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Substantial differences in access to ICT and consumption of
information services in different regions
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a minority of the leading regions (Moscow, St. Petersburg, KhantyMansi Autonomous Area - Yugra, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous
Area, Tomsk region) are at the level of developed countries
the majority of regions are at the level of Eastern European
countries
a lesser majority of economically unsustainable regions with low
gross regional product per capita and low income of households
(Chechen Republic, Ingush Republic, Republic of Tyva, Ust-Orda
Buryat Autonomous Area, Republic of Dagestan and others) show
low fixed telephony density, mobile communications and Internet
penetration and are at the same level with developing countries or
even LDCs
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Key Obstacles for E-Inclusion
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E-government is at the initial stage due to shortage of services
provided to citizens
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the most available service is the “information presence” of a
government authority (web-site, information on the services it
provides)
there are few services that allow to download some forms
The most problematic areas in terms of access to and use of
ICT are municipal governance and municipal healthcare
The overwhelming majority of the Russian population is poorly
equipped with ICT and is deprived of Internet access at home
(nothing to say about the broadband) due to low income, which
is a major cause for the digital divide
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Key Obstacles for E-Inclusion
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Scope of ICT use in professional activity is substantially lower
than in the EU
Training in ICT and Internet use for adult population and
professional groups is absolutely insufficient – the share of
those above who have had such training is considerably lower
than in the EU
The regions’ residents are poorly aware of opportunities offered
by ICTs and of available online services, the mass media are
not involved
Some groups of population are not motivated to use Internet
and other ICTs – inertia, stereotypes and conservatism are
hindering the change in everyday behaviour necessary to shift
to the Information Society culture
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Key Obstacles for E-Inclusion
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The level of information literacy and personal information
culture is pretty low, which is the main factor hindering the
ICT use by households
The level of digital content and network services (primarily in
such priority areas as healthcare, education, governance,
and culture) is quite inadequate
The legal environment both at federal and regional levels is
very unfavourable for a full-scale ICT use
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the corps of laws is incomplete and contradictory
there is a lack of sine qua non regulations for e-commerce, eprocurement, e-learning and other critical e-applications
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Positive Developments
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2006-2007: Reference ICT4D Programme
for a Russian Region was adopted by the
Russian Government (developed by IIS,
covering all crucial aspects of the
Information Society and Knowledge
Economy development)
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55 of 88 regions committed to the Reference ICT4D
Programme and declared their readiness to implement it
A positive rivalry has emerged among the regions in
terms of their e-readiness rating position
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Positive Developments
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Massive school computerisation has taken place
due to the implementation of the National Project
‘Education’
With mobile telephony and Internet applications as
ice-breakers, an average Russian ICT user has
gained a sense of mastering the cutting-edge
technologies
These developments can engender an e-inclusion
avalanche, which will help Russia become an
Information Society for All in an observable perspective
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Contact Information
Tatiana Ershova
General Director
Institute of the Information Society
Phone: +7 (495) 625-17-27
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.iis.ru
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