The Russian government will allocate a billion dollars for its virtualization

According to the newspaper Kommersant, on August 16, the Russian government approved the program for creating an electronic government, which will spend $ 1.3 billion by 2010.

The money will be used to arrange various documents, including passports and driver's licenses via the Internet, registration of real estate and business activities will also be converted to electronic form. Social payments will be made via the Internet.

Unfortunately, the program will allow Russians to certify applications with electronic signatures only after 2009, until then citizens will still have to come to the office to complete the process of paperwork.
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In 2008, a special unified federal portal will be created, where you can find information about all the services provided by the government.

The program will be financed from two sources: $ 770 million will be provided by the budgets of the regions and departments, and the rest will be taken from the budget of the Federal Target Program Electronic Russia.

According to estimates by the head of the Ministry of Information and Communications Leonid Reiman, the project will save the government up to 10 billion rubles annually.

via news.a.ua