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"Particularly significant projects (PSP) for the development

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:20 am
by tanjimajuha20
This was reported by the Director General of the Russian Foundation for the Development of Information Technologies (RFRIT) Alexander Pavlov on April 18 at the demo day of three industrial competence centers (ICC) "Animal Husbandry", "Crop Production" and "Food and Processing Industry" (part of the industry committee "Agro-Industrial Complex (APC)").
and implementation of Russian IT solutions in economic sectors must have the potential for replication in Russia and export potential - so that the solutions can work in the markets of friendly countries: BRICS (Russia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, China, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, South Africa) and the Eurasian Economic netherlands whatsapp resource Union (Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan)," said Alexander Pavlov.

According to him, many solutions in the agro-industrial complex are niche, and the market inside Russia is very small, so it is necessary to enter other countries; foreign vendors previously relied on the fact that they worked in large segments.

"Export potential means that the solution being created must be competitive in foreign markets. Potential is not yet a requirement to have sales in another country, but there must be an understanding of who the customer might be," explained Alexander Pavlov.

RFRIT has already supported 22 particularly significant projects and issued grants in the amount of more than 17 billion rubles. Three of these OZPs relate to the agro-industrial complex:

— development and implementation of an agricultural production management system based on domestic software (developer GeomirAgro LLC, customer Rusagro Group of Companies, grant amount 536 million rubles with a total project cost of 670 million rubles);

— management of an elevator, oil extraction plant and fat processing plant (developer IndaSoft LLC, customer Fat Processing Plant JSC, grant amount 200 million rubles with a project cost of 250 million rubles);

— development of a hardware and software complex for recording production operations (developer: Smart Technologies Invest LLC, customer: Bashkir Meat Company LLC, grant amount: 20 million rubles with a total cost of 30 million rubles).

"Projects move through checkpoints and show results. Developing a product is half the battle. The main part of the work is implementing it into the enterprise's business. Developers always have to adapt the product to the customer and spend resources that are not always available," noted Alexander Pavlov.

According to the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (MinDigital), in 2024 the budget has allocated 10.4 billion rubles for grant support of especially significant projects. Of these, 7.2 billion rubles are grants from the RFRIT. The new selection of OZPs will start at the CIPR conference in Nizhny Novgorod at the end of May 2024.

The status of the OZP is assigned by the Presidium of the Government Commission on Digital Development, Use of Information Technologies to Improve the Quality of Life and Conditions for Doing Business. In order for a project to receive the status of the OZP, it must have both a developer and a customer of the solution. Before being considered by the government commission, the project must be approved by the industrial competence center, which consolidates the functional order. Industry committees prioritize projects.