Belarus sets IT as the country’s development priority
The IT sector is a national development priority for Belarus, Prime Minister Sergei Rumas said at a plenary session of the forum Digital Future of Global Economy in Almaty on 31 January.
“Setting an ambitious goal to develop an IT country, we have accepted the challenge to rebuild the economy and digitize it,” Sergei Rumas said. “Having defined the IT sector as a national development priority, the state has formed necessary starting conditions. Belarus has developed necessary infrastructure for data transmission, storage and processing, identification mechanisms, and modern means of information protection,” Sergei Rumas added.
One of the key projects in this area was the development of the National Data Processing Center. “The center has been certified to international standards and provides the highest level of security and fault tolerance. More than 400 government agencies and organizations have already carried out a phased transition to the use of the National Data Processing Center and the cloud platform,” the prime minister said.
Sergei Rumas named a software and hardware complex for accounting tax invoices among the projects already implemented in Belarus. The move made it possible to introduce electronic invoices to replace the paper ones all over the country and introduce a state system for their processing, storage, transfer and receipt. A single automated electronic prescription system has been launched for the country’s Healthcare Ministry. This solution provides unified secure access to the databases of the Healthcare Ministry from anywhere in Belarus, which reduces costs and accelerates IT implementation in healthcare. The system of interdepartmental electronic document flow helps the government agencies secure the exchange of electronic messages between all government agencies and organizations on a single platform.
Sergei Rumas also spoke about the successes of the Hi-Tech Park.
