Mikhail Mishustin holds strategic session on the Data Economy National Project

Mikhail Mishustin: “It is necessary to further improve regulation, eliminate the digital gap, and strengthen our human resource potential. It is important to connect our plans with this new national project. Implementation must ultimately contribute to achieving the technological sovereignty and independence of the country and promoting its own technologies and solutions.”

Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:

Mikhail Mishustin holds strategic session on the Data Economy National Project

Good afternoon, colleagues.

The President has instructed us to prepare a national
project to create a data economy, which should be completed by the end of the decade. Today we will discuss proposals for fulfilling this and consider the goals
of strengthening our technological sovereignty that were set by the President.
He noted that it is very important to transfer the economy, the social sphere,
and our government agencies to qualitatively new operating principles and implement management based on big data, which will expand the capabilities of entire sectors and allow us to launch convenient and efficient services for our
citizens and businesses.

Today, the infrastructure for the digital economy has
already been created. Electronic ecosystems and online platforms are being developed.
Most socially significant facilities have internet access. Fiber
trunk optical communication lines have been built from Kaliningrad to Chukotka. We also support IT
companies by providing benefits and funding.

Particular attention is being paid to personnel
training. Specialists capable of producing advanced software products are now
in great demand in almost all sectors of our economy.

It is very important to place the right emphasis on our future work.

IT is among the most
progressively advancing sectors, with new trends and technologies emerging
every year, including AI-based technology.

Given the global vector of the development of industry, which relies on the use of big data, we must develop
long-term and systematic solutions. They should be aimed at modernising the infrastructure, an issue we recently discussed at length at the strategic
session on the communications industry.

The next stage is to build
unified digital infrastructure in all areas – healthcare, housing and utilities, education, energy, and transport. This work will involve every
region.

With government support,
efforts should be taken to develop advanced and reliable solutions for data
processing and storage, including national cloud platforms. These should be
domestically-manufactured products to ensure the uninterrupted operation of government agencies, enterprises, and telecommunications operators. The work
should involve teams and companies willing to jointly engage in such tasks on a long-term basis, which is very important.

Information security remains
an essential issue. Amidst increasing cyber attacks, it is necessary to boost
measures to protect the security of national digital and critical
infrastructure, apply advanced developments in quantum computing and,
obviously, further implement systems related to AI and electronic platforms, including
in public administration, to allow individuals and businesses to use a convenient service format that ensures personal data security.

Dear colleagues,

We must further improve
regulations, eliminate the digital divide and enhance our human resources,
coordinating all our plans with this new national project whose implementation
should ultimately contribute to achieving our country’s technological
sovereignty and independence as well as promoting our own technologies and solutions.