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Title: Д.Медведев.Вступительное слово на заседании.28.10.09 View count: 33 Rating: 5.0 (2 ratings) Description: Opening Remarks at Meeting of the Commission for Modernisation and Technological Development of Russia's Economy October 28, 2009 Fryazino, Moscow Region Вступительное слово на заседании Комиссии по модернизации и технологическому развитию экономики России 28 октября 2009 года Московская область, Фрязино PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Good afternoon, colleagues, Our Commission is holding another meeting today. Four months have passed now since we began work. This meeting completes the first round of discussions on the priorities we set for our economys modernisation and technological development. We have examined specific projects and network timetables in each of the priority areas and have agreed on our plans for the future. The projects have gone through expert evaluation and public discussion. Probably most important of all, we have settled on the amounts and sources of financing. In cases where necessary, we have also decided on allocating extra funds, despite the current economic difficulties. In most cases, we will keep within the budgets, and in allocating funds, will keep in mind, of course, the fact that modernisation and innovation programmes are one of our priorities. We have some large-scale projects and also some small pilot projects. Their implementation covers the entire country and will require some amendments to the legislation. At the last meeting, when we discussed energy efficiency, we examined the draft law on energy efficiency and looked at some other laws and regulations too. This is all part of the work that we need to do in the groups that have been set up, and in the Commission as a whole. Today, we are looking at projects in the telecommunications and space exploration sectors. The level of development in the telecommunications sector is one of the most important indicators of an innovative economy, and access to telecommunications services has an unquestionable impact on our countrys competitiveness, on business development, and directly affects peoples quality of life. This is no longer an abstract subject for scholars to debate, but has become an absolutely concrete range of consumer services that we all encounter in our daily lives. Based on analysis of the situation and needs in this sector, ten specific projects have been proposed for discussion at todays meeting. I will leave the presentation of these projects to our colleagues and will simply outline the main tasks that we need to resolve in order to implement them. The first task is rapid development of technology that will ensure world standards of speed and quality of data transmission. As we have already said, we also need to put in place the conditions for this technologys widest possible use. This is essential too in order to carry out the projects we approved earlier on developing grid systems and super computers, one of the areas we examined not so long ago, and also for modernising the information services sector. Given our countrys unique geographical situation and immense size, alongside mainline communications channels, the technology base in this area could include wireless networks and satellite communications systems too. While on my way to this meeting I looked through some information on comparative signal transmission speeds for internet users in different countries. There was a global ranking carried out. Of course in Japan, being a relatively small country in area, the figures were amazingly high. I was quite surprised, I must say, to see that it was something like 60 megabits a second. Other countries also had decent figures. In Europe the average is 10 to 20 megabits per second. As for Russia, the results were based on what they said was a study carried out by Yandex six months ago, and the figure was, I think, an average 512 kilobits a second. There we have a real example of the digital gap, and this is despite the fact that we have made a fair amount of progress over these last years. We have been working on broadband access and on the internet in general, expanding its use in schools, but the digital gap is still huge, and this means we have an enormous amount of work before us. http://www.kremlin.ru Tags: Дмитрий, Медведев, dmitry, medvedev, kremlin, moscow, president, russia, Президент, России, opening, remarks, meeting, commission, modernisation, technological, development, russia's, economy, fryazino, region, Вступительное, слово, заседании, Комиссии, модернизации, технологическому, развитию, экономики, Московская, область, Фрязино, Author: niknikolay |
