HSE researchers determined the level of digitalization of the regions of our country

Based on Rosstat data, ISSEK HSE experts found out how the level of digitalization of households and digital skills of the population differs in the regions. Tell us more about the study

What’s going on

  • The regions where most households have access to the Internet are the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (98,5%), the Magadan Region (97,3%) and the Chechen Republic (96,2%).
  • The last lines are occupied by the Oryol Region (74,5%), the Republic of Mordovia (73,7%), the Novgorod Region (73%) and the Republic of Mari El (72%).
  • In nine Russian regions, more than half of households use only mobile Internet. This practice is common in Kalmykia (51,7%), Karachay-Cherkessia (53,1%), Mari El (55,1%), Amur Region (55,7%), Ingushetia (56,8%), Adygea ( 58,5%), Chechnya (58,7%), Altai (63,1%) and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (98,3%).
  • The most active Internet users live in the Yamal-Nenets (94,3%), Khanty-Mansiysk (90,6%) and Chukotka Autonomous Okrugs (89,2%). The least active are in Samara (64,2%), Tver (64,2%) and Smolensk regions (65%).
  • Researchers have not found a direct relationship between the frequency of Internet use and the development of digital skills.

What does it mean

The problem of digital inequality concerns not only our country. In 2021, only 60% of the world’s population had access to the Internet. The digital divide negatively affects many areas of life from education to social relations.

In our country, since 2014, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, together with Rostelecom and ER-Telecom, has been implementing a program to eliminate the digital divide among the population. For seven years from 2014 to 2021 in our country, 14 thousand towns, villages, villages, villages and auls of 250-500 people were connected to the Internet. By 2030, mobile communications and high-speed wireless Internet are planned to provide another 10 thousand settlements, where 100-500 people live.

According to the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development Oleg Ivanov, first of all, communications and the Internet were carried out to those settlements where they were not at all. Now the ministry is moving towards digital transformation, so that telemedicine, electronic government services, online education and other Internet services are available everywhere.

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