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What does the market think about the results of the "Digital Economy"
The majority of market representatives surveyed by ComNews gave a positive assessment of the national project "Digital Economy".

Olga Minaeva noted that thanks to it, grant support for the development and implementation of domestic solutions was implemented, and the Information Security project also had an effect, in particular the track for improving the information security literacy of civil servants. And the General Director of lithuania whatsapp resource the ANO National Competence Center for Information Systems of Holding Management (NCC ISU) Kirill Semion called the main effect of the Digital Economy the streamlining and systematization of the approach to the development of key digital technologies in Russia. vStack General Director Evgeny Karpov noted import substitution of software and efforts to reduce the shortage of IT specialists - including a deferment from military service, preferential mortgages and salary increases.

"We rate the results of the national project "Digital Economy" very highly - thanks to it, Russia occupies significant places in the world in terms of the level of development of electronic government, accessibility of the Internet and the penetration of digital services into all spheres of economic life," Stanislav Shilov, Director of Product Development at the Center for Digital Solutions for Business at BSS, told ComNews. "The results of the national project are becoming the basis that allows digital solutions not to be just a "feature" for a narrow layer of advanced users, but to receive truly widespread distribution."

However, O2Consulting Managing Partner Anna Nikitchenko believes that the main target indicators of the national project will not be achieved by the end of the year.

"This is partly explained by a number of objective reasons, including foreign economic sanctions, a decrease in the rate of economic growth in relation to the planned ones for 2019, and the need for large-scale import substitution. But in general, not all the goals of the national project have been achieved, since even before the start of the SVO, the main target results were not achieved," said the representative of O2Consulting.

What will the "Data Economy" be like?
The "Digital Economy" will be replaced in 2025 by the national project "Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State", which is currently being developed. It will be presented in July 2024. However, the tentative provisions of the "Data Economy" are already being discussed.

During the President's address to the Federal Assembly on February 29, 2024, Vladimir Putin instructed the government to develop a national project and announced that funding for its implementation in 2025-2030 from federal budget allocations would amount to at least 700 billion rubles.

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According to the Ministry of Digital Development, the main focus of the new national project will be the creation of infrastructure for collecting, storing and processing data, as well as the development of specialists in the field of analytics and artificial intelligence for the further development of the country's economy.

The General Director of the National Center for Information Systems Management (NCIS), Kirill Semion, believes that the transformation into the “Data Economy” means a transition from simply developing technologies to their practical application in the interests of the country’s economy.

"We expect that the "Data Economy" will become a logical continuation of the "Digital Economy", since many projects and areas that began within the framework of the "Digital Economy" require development and continuation. In particular, this concerns cognitive technologies, the same AI and Big Data," summarized Mikhail Lebedev, head of the Almi Group of Companies.