Yakutia ranked first in IT-services exports in the Far Eastern Federal District,Anatoly Semyonov, ministerof innovation, digital development and info-communication technologies of the republic,said.

According to him, the number of applications submitted through the portal of public services has increased by 2.5 times.

Currently more than 92% of the republic's residents have registered in the unified identification and authentication system, Yakutia's press centre in Moscow reported to the Made in Russia project

It is planned that by 2022, all public services will be converted into electronic format.

In addition, digitalization in the region is also being carried out in rural areas. For example, in Namsky District, a unified web service, Smart Village, is being developed, which will unite news feeds, blogs, environmental monitoring systems, firefighting systems, video surveillance, information on road closures and repairs in a single situation center. The project may become a pilot in the digitalization of rural settlements in the republic.

According to Semenov, 7 municipal IT centres were created in the region last year. By 2024, this number is planned to be increased to 17 centres.

Last year, Syberia IT programmers created a coronovirus detection programme based on artificial intelligence, which detects the disease on CT scans in 20-45 seconds with a 96% prediction accuracy. To date, the system has processed over 10,000 CT scans and is successfully used in Yakutsk and several district hospitals.

The state program of innovation and digital development for 2020-2024 is currently in effect in the republic. Now Yakutia is among the top ten Russian regions in IT service exports and accounts for 85% of IT service exports to the Far East.

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Author: Ksenia Gustova