Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev: “If you want to harm the country, then you should invest in the creation of IT specialists”

“In principle, I have repeatedly argued in the Ministry of Communications regarding their ideas on the training of IT specialists. I honestly openly there, and honestly openly say here: if you want to harm the country, then you should invest in the creation of IT-specialists in the territory of the Russian Federation. Because more harm cannot be done, ”said Marinichev, speaking at the hearings“ Technological development of Russia and access to the external technology market, ”which took place yesterday at the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

According to the ombudsman, “any trained specialist in our territory will pray to the source of information where this knowledge comes from. And the first thing is to try to go from here to there, in order to be closer to the case in which he is engaged. ”

Boris Glazkov, director of Rostelecom’s Center for Strategic Innovations, agreed with his point of view, adding that “soon programmers can be replaced by computers so that he can write code”.

A full transcript of the speech can be found here . Thanks to Alexander Chernykh for decoding.
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Dmitry Marinichev was appointed to the post of Ombudsman on issues related to the elimination of violations of the rights of entrepreneurs in the implementation of regulation, monitoring the functioning and development of the Internet in July 2014. In addition, he is the CEO of a major system integrator RadiusGroup.

via Kommensant

UPD In his Facebook, Mr. Marinichev explains that he did not say this for the media and explains his position.

UPD2 Dmitry Marinichev gave an interview to Meduza, where he explained his position more clearly.

PS According to FBK information, the companies of Dmitry Marinichev are general contractors in the construction of one of the largest data centers in Russia.