Mishustin orders creation of centers for implementation of new digital products

MOSCOW. June 3 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has urged the government and major Russian companies to make faster decisions on the substitution of foreign digital technologies and ordered the creation of industrial centers of competencies for substitution of foreign solutions.

"We need to do this very quickly. I suggest creating industrial centers of competencies for the substitution of foreign solutions in key sectors of the economy. I am asking the Ministry of Digital Development together with other agencies and business to prepare appropriate proposals on the staff composition (of their centers)," Mishustin said in his closing remarks at the CIPR-2022 conference in Nizhny Novgorod on Friday.

The prime minister asked Digital Development Minister Maksut Shadayev to provide for participation of representatives of leading companies in these centers. "So that no one makes excuses neither in terms of deadlines nor in terms of the essence," the prime minister said.

It is necessary "to combine the efforts of customers and developers to create and implement new digital products," Mishustin also said.

"Our companies that produce software should understand the extent of their responsibility. Because it is one thing to make tablet solutions, and another thing to produce modern aircraft, car or modern technology," Mishustin said, instructing Shadayev to elaborate upon the issue of creating such centers of competencies by mid-July.

"Elaborate upon this issue until the middle of next month, see who should enter the competency centers for development of technological solutions. We also need operating procedures for such entities," the prime minister said.