Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Maxim Akimov was received by Vladimir Putin, presidential web page reports. Akimov described efforts of creating a system of seamless online services that will make interaction between people, businesses and the state as painless as possible, especially in the sphere of public services. He referred to a system of super-services, where “super” means that people are not offered one particular service, a mono-service, but several services they need to deal with a comprehensive problem.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, “People have shown great interest in receiving online services. Last year the amount of services provided on the integrated Public Services Portal had doubled. This year we registered over 120 mio requests in January-September, or twice as many as in 2018. This year we will definitely receive more requests than the Integrated Government Services Center, which is a very convenient system but it is still an offline system. We will receive more requests via our one-stop e-service. Our public services website is one of the most frequently visited state-run internet resources in the world. It is only during the tax declaration period that the US tax service is ahead of us, but we are sure to come out on top once we get these new super-services.”
Russia is also striving to streamline fifth-generation communications networks.
“We are experimenting with the 4.8 (4.4–4.9) band. This is a reserve frequency band. We continue to work with the 3.4–3.8 band (by arrangement with our colleagues from the military); this is the most promising standard, but there is much work ahead to coordinate usage, particularly in big cities. We have populated this band and it is used by defense and law enforcement agencies,” Akimov noted.