Telecommunications Ministry expects not only to replace the imported soft Russian, but also establish its exports to BRICS. In this regard, the agency expects the annual investment of 40 billion rubles. However, India, China and Brazil have a lot of their developments that do not allow the Russian IT-products to gain market share.
The Ministry of Communications has estimated investment in the development of the domestic IT-products and software 40 billion rubles. per year, said the head of department, Nikolai Nikiforov.
According to him, for the design and development of critical types of software you will need direct financial support, including from the state.
«Necessary investments, in our estimation, for five to seven years amount to about 40 billion rubles. annually, it is a very capital-intensive, complex engineering design, “- said the Minister. Of this amount, according to Nikiforov, about 10 billion rubles. a year should make public funds.
Such a large investment officer explained the need to establish as soon as possible competitiveness, initially focused on export. “The Russian market is only about 2% of the world market. Even if we all state order for our companies to give up entirely, it is less than 1% of the world market “, – complained Nikiforov.
According to him, in Russia today is the task of creating a database management system for financial and government agencies operating systems for mobile devices and data centers, and industry types of software. For each of these types of software are already specialized working groups of the Ministry of Communications at the Council of Experts for the development of IT-industry.
«main export potential of domestic software, based on the geopolitical situation of the country are BRICS bloc “- summed up the minister.
« There are various models to support the development of Russian IT-companies, both financial and general nature. That, as general measures, they are set out in the Strategy for development of information technologies, including financial support is provided mainly by institutions such development as RVC, Skolkovo and several other “- told” Gazeta.ru “the press service of the Ministry of Communications.
Representatives of the Ministry also noted that at the same time there are a number of public tasks related the need to develop new IT-products in critical infrastructure. Thus at present the state has no mechanism to trigger the development of such products, but there is an understanding that these products should be developed already proven IT-companies and subsequently become popular both in the domestic market as well in the markets of the BRICS countries.
«Domestic software could cause interest on the part of the BRICS countries and some other countries. The market is big enough. The main competitive advantages of Russian IT-products have become their reliability and alternative unique development “, – said the representative of the department.
%« Many independent of US geopolitical influence of the country concerned ensure their own information sovereignty and are seeking an alternative to American Software, and therefore will be interested in purchasing IT-safe products produced in Russia ».
However, the sources of investment in the development of domestic software remain unclear, and competitiveness of Russian software in the world market is questionable, says the analyst of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications Karen Kazeryan.
«Ideally funding sources should not be sponsored by the federal budget and the budgets of the same foundations, and private funds. However, many domestic IT-companies and so consistently generate profits, so their support mechanism should be no investment, and various kinds of legislative incentives, including tax, “- he said.
Kazeryan also not inclined to believe that the domestic IT-development will be required countries – members of the BRICS. “China Russian software just do not need, in India also there is a powerful software development industry. Hindus themselves need more orders for the development of software because of the development outsource, “- said the expert. According to him, does not need the Russian developments and Brazil in recent years has become a center for Latin American high technology. The country today has branches almost all of the leading Internet companies in the world, and the authorities are increasingly focusing on the creation and implementation of its own products.
«Historically our markets – this is not the BRICS countries, and Europe and America, where our experts will go to work. Russia can join the fight for South-East Asia, but today there are strong position in China, so that the domestic IT-industry have to do some serious work “, – said Kazeryan.
The expert also questioned the the model itself, in which the Russian software is going to enter the world market. “The specifics of the software market is that success usually use innovative products in the process of increasing demand eliminates the technical shortcomings. Russia wants to copy the existing system, and then think how to bring them to market. But this tactic is doomed to failure ».
« If the government was initially focused on the development of advanced products, we could talk about the creation of export-oriented software industry. Now we are talking exclusively about import substitution, and the prospects of success of IT-products on the market are doubtful, “- says the analyst. %
Recall the summer, the Russian government worried about the issue of import substitution in the field of software. The main reason for the possible failure of the software has been named the Western support for anti-Russian sanctions by companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Symantec, as well as fears of spyware “bookmarks” in Western products.
Later, the Commission on the development of strategic information systems when the Duma Committee on Science and High Technologies put forward the idea of the ban of foreign purchases of software in the presence of Russian counterparts. Members of the commission also announced plans to create a single registry software, which will register all IT-safe products. Furthermore, according to the State Duma, the percentage of foreign nationals in possession domestic software developers should not exceed 50%.
Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov often spoke with the requirement to soften the policy regarding imported software. According to him, in the process of government procurement contracting is to justify the need to purchase a foreign IT-products in the presence of Russian counterparts.
«Changes in the procedure of public procurement should have a positive impact on the domestic IT -otrasli, but the proposed mechanism for the definition of “trusted” software and making the appropriate registry, in fact, puts the Russian companies a choice – to sell their products to the state or to the world market “, – complains Kazeryan.
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