President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov: One of important directions – granting citizens state services in electronic format

Each year IT –sphere in Republic of Tatarstan undergoes big changes granting more and more possibilities for sectors of the economy, citizens and authority bodies. This was stated by President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov at year’s results board session in RT Ministry of informatization and communication.

The borad session took place in the IT – park building (Kazan), in video conference format with switching all municipal regions of Tatarstan. Deputy RT Premier –Minister of informatization and communication Nikolai Nikiforov came out with a report on 2010 year’s results.

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minniklhanov speaking about IT brancg development marked that one of the important directions today is granting state services in electronic format. By his words, this direction opens immense possibilities for adjusting communications between official authorities and citizens. «Citizens often express dissatisfaction over the works of bureaucrats, - Rustam Minikhanov said. – In number of cases the point is not whether a problem of citizen is solved or not but that he cannot obtain necessary for him information».
Granting of state services in electronic format enables access to information.

Rustam Minnikhanov mentioned also that today Federal government is interested in further progressing IT – sector. He reminded that IT- park building had been constructed for federal and republican funds. It is supposed that in year 2011 construction of IT-park in the second major city of Tatarstan Naberezhny Chelny is envisaged.

In opinion of Rustam Minnikhanov it is important to create conditions for the work of specialists in IT sphere, provide the ground for activity where they could create new products, exchange ideas. To meet this end IT-village and further progress of IT –park is to be realized.

President of Tatarstan during the session stated likewise that today it is necessary to take a decision at federal level to introduce single standards in IT sphere. The country is immense and very different by level of infrastructure development, introduction of info technologies. . «It is important that all regions operated on a single platform, in one system», - Rustam Minnikhanov stated.