Last Thursday, federal officials told regional about e-government. The European representative Jean-Jacques, and even mere mortals who filmed and recorded what was happening, were also present there.
Minister Shchyogolev said a lot: "The
priority tasks for the transition to the provision of state and municipal services in electronic form " were reduced to future
tea drinking with Astrakhan grandmothers . Older Russians need to be explained how to use the Internet. Why only with Astrakhan? Why not…
The minister also mentioned the creation of a
social network for officials for the month . (Apparently read a
book on the topic ). Create from scratch. Completely original, nothing like a social network. Per month. Well, that they had someone to talk to, share photos ...
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By that time, when the bureaucracy sitting in the hall had finally lost interest in what was happening and was buried in communicators, the head of the European e-government support project in the Russian Federation, Jean-Jacques Kudela, ascended the rostrum. It turned out that the European Union allocated € 1.9 million to our e-government.
Here is a slide (clickable) in itself is quite interesting.

I will reproduce it for those who are sorry for the traffic (
spelling of the original ):
Background Information
New EU project to support administrative reform in the Russian Federation
- Budget: € 1.971.500
- Duration: 24 months (July 2009 - July 2011)
- Beneficiaries of the project: Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation
- Location: based in Moscow, pilot projects are being implemented in the regions
E-government in Russia, as is known
from the words of the president - “Chimera” . But under the chimera, it turns out, you can knock out a bunch of dough and materialize it. And not even one. The second is supercomputers, which have already been
repeatedly spoken about . Not to mention
the Russian "Silicon Valley" , which, as anonyms will survive from the presidential administration, can be turned into a
"Silicon GULAG .
"But back to the "
Priority tasks for the transition to the provision of state and municipal services in electronic form ." Everything is working! Vaughn and fines gaytsy can be paid through the terminal (not a fact, however, that will reach) and you can vote for the deputies via SMS (though not all). There is absolutely nothing to worry about! They will finance
not only from the budget: Financing of the Federal Target Program “Electronic Russia” in 2009-2010. will amount to 5.9 billion rubles, Rostelecom will act as a co-investor.
This year
(2010) will allocate about 3.1 billion rubles to Electronic Russia.
updUnexpectedly, State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov supported the idea of ​​creating a Russian operating system based on open source software. Market participants have calculated that it will take up to 5 billion rubles to develop it,
writes RBC daily.
The third chimera, yes.