On 1 July, 2003 the third regional conference of the Ministry of Communication and Informatization of the Russian Federation "Electronic Russia - for person, business, society" was held in village Olginka of Krasnodar Territory, in ?? "Orbita" of "UTK" PJSC.

The held conference is one in the series of regional forums of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation which will be conducted during 2003 in all federal districts of Russia with the subsequent final action in Moscow. This conference has collected representatives of the state structures of Russia, scientific and educational communities of the subjects of the Southern Federal District.

D.A. Milovantsev Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation on communication and informatics was the first speaker at the conference. The first part of his report dealt with the social and economic importance of the program "Electronic Russia". The Deputy Minister in particular noted that in development of information technologies in the country " we see... the way of integrating Russia into global information space, the effective tool of solving the broad range of economic, scientific, educational, health care and social problems and tasks".

Tseren Tserenov Head of the Corporate Management and New Economy Department of the Ministry of Economic development of the Russian Federation said in his report "Electronic Russia - the system approach" that "at present nobody doubts the necessity to optimize activity of all branches of authority in order to make their work more effective, transparent and public". In 2003 the project on development of electronic administrative rules was launched which would allow to optimize mutual relations between authorities, population and business and to remove selfish officials using their positions from office. By 2010 each official will have his electronic job description placed in Internet, and any citizen will be able to familiarize himself with it".

When addressing the participants of the conference, V.L. Gorbachev General Director of "UTK" PJSC has touched on the primary goals facing "UTK" PJSC - the leading telecom operator of the Southern Federal District. "Now we face the task of creation of common information and telecommunication infrastructure for federal and local authorities, budgetary and noncommercial organizations and for public centers of access to popular information systems. I believe it advisable to continue using the resources of existent networks of "Southern Telecommunications Company" PJSC for realization of projects within the framework of Federal target program "Electronic Russia".

During the plenary sessions participants of the forum discussed the plans on using information-communication technologies for increase of efficiency of the government, competitiveness in economy and improvement of quality of products and services in the Southern Federal District; process of informatization of educational and public institutions on the basis of "Southern Telecommunications Company" PJSC; project "Common national control and data transmission system"; the Krasnodar City program "Internet - to schools", as well as contribution of the district to the construction of common data transmission network of the tax bodies of Russia.

The key event of the forum was lively discussion of the realization of the Federal target program "Electronic Russia" in the Southern Federal District at the press conference with participation of D.A.Milovantsev Deputy Minister of Communication and Informatization of the Russian Federation -curator of the Program from the part of the Ministry of Communications of Russia, Tseren Tserenov Head of the Corporate Management and New Economy Department of the Ministry of Economic development of the Russian Federation, V.L. Gorbachev General Director of "UTK" PJSC.