The development of the digital economy of Russia will cost the state 1.8 trillion rubles

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting of the Digital Development Commission stated that the amount of funding for the Russian program for the development of the digital economy will exceed 1.8 trillion rubles in the next five years. “The estimated amount of funding for the national program on the digital economy for 2019-2024 will exceed 1.8 trillion rubles, of which more than 1 trillion are funds from the federal budget,” the government chairman said. This writes the "Kommersant".

Medvedev said that in Russia in the near future they will create their own services to protect personal data and payment systems. “This is the fourth project in the framework of the Digital Economy program. The estimated amount of financing until 2024 is a little over 30 billion rubles, 18 billion rubles. of these are federal money, ”he said.

Earlier it was reported that the section “Information Infrastructure” could become the most expensive program of the national project “Digital Economy”. More than 413.4 billion rubles will be allocated to this section. Another approximately 282 billion rubles. spend on digital technology, 226.4 billion rubles - on digital government, 139 billion rubles. - frames for the digital economy and 18 billion rubles for information security.

At the moment, found 820 billion, the money provided for the informatization of government agencies. This means that the funds will be spent on organizing workplaces for ministries and departments, providing them with communications, developing their own IT systems and supporting government information systems (GIS).

The total budget of the Digital Economy project will be more than 3.5 billion rubles. The program was approved by the government in the summer of 2017.