All computers in Russia’s schools will have national software in 2009.
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All School PCs in Russia to Have Domestic Software
All computers in Russia’s schools will have national software in 2009, Acting IT and Communication Minister Leonid Reiman announced Friday.
This action, Reiman said, will materially lower the country’s dependence on foreign software. “Already in 2008, Russia’s software will be tested in three pilot regions – the Tomsk region, Perm district and Republic of Tatarstan. In 2009, national software will be installed in all school computers,” the minister vowed.
Roughly 1 percent of 53,000 schools have no Internet connection yet, Reiman announced in Belgorod during the sitting of President’s Council for Implementing Prior National Projects and Demographical Policy.
Finance Ministry refused in spring to appropriate money for buying foreign software for Russia’s schools and blamed on IT and Communication Ministry the intention to harden dependence of budget-sustained organizations from product of overseas corporations.
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