Moscow: Russian regions have
created 1,100 systems that can become a part of the future
e-Government, Moscow Mayor has said.
"In 2008, the president of Russia approved an
information society development strategy," Moscow Mayor Yuri
Luzhkov said at a joint meeting of the State Council and the
presidential Council for the Development of Information
Society yesterday.
He delivered a report titled "Regional Experience and
Major Obstacles in the Development of Information Society and
E-Government".
"During this time, regions have created 1,100
solutions for the first stage of e-Government, and this should
be done quickly," he said.
He mentioned Tatarstan where a housing capital repair
monitoring system is working, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous
Area where a regional databank of natural resources has been
created, and Khabarovsk where a unified city utilities
monitoring system has been put in place.
"Moscow has the electronic Muscovite's card which
serves both as an ID and a payment means. More than 3.5
million Muscovites use it, mainly pensioners," Luzhkov said.
He believes this experience can be used for creating a
single electronic ID document in Russia.
"Moscow shares its technologies with the interested
regions for free and uses other regions' experience. It is
important that our experience is shared for free," the mayor
said.
First Published: Thursday, December 24, 2009, 13:20