The Ministry of Digital Development has created a single database of all business needs in software

The Ministry of Digital Development has compiled an overview map of IT solutions that already have domestic counterparts, and those that are yet to be replaced. Until the end of the summer, the department should present this “IT landscape” at a meeting of the presidium of the government commission on digital development to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, a source in the Ministry of Digital Development told Vedomosti. According to him, the ministry expects that this document will be approved by September 2023 and will become a guide to action in terms of developing the missing solutions.

In fact, this “landscape” – “this is what should happen in the end, this is a strategy without a time scale,” said Vedomosti’s interlocutor in the Ministry of Digital Development.

The press service of the Ministry of Digital Development confirmed the development of the document. The “IT landscape” is necessary in order to assess the needs of economic sectors and form a list of projects that, among other things, can qualify for various forms of support: grants, soft loans, obtaining the status of systemically important projects. That is, the compliance of the project with the “landscape” is a necessary condition for making a decision on its support, the representative of the Ministry of Digital Development noted. According to him, now the document is in the stage of specification.