On 15 August 2006 Government of the Russian Federation adopted a new version of the federal target program eRussia (2002-2010) drafted by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the RF.

The Program aims mainly at providing efficient interdepartmental information communication, creating an integrated information top-down structure of governmental administration, making governmental services available for citizens and organizations, and improving qualification of professional training for governmental officials in the sphere of ICT application.

At the same time objectives of governmental support to competitive domestic production in the sphere of ICT, development of national information infrastructure, as well as objectives of introducing ICT in activity of separate governmental bodies were singled out as special governmental and departmental programs and projects.

The program provides for implementing events on 7 major dimensions:

• Creating a system of standards and recommendations in the sphere of using ICT in governmental administration;
• Providing efficient interdepartmental information communication on the basis of ICT and integration of governmental information systems;
• Providing efficiency of communication between governmental authorities and citizens and economic entities on the basis of ICT;
• Introducing information systems for managing the activity of public authorities;
• Creating information systems of public authorities to support the activity of the President of the Russian Federation, Government of the Russian Federation, and Federal Council of the Russian Federation;
• Creating standard software and technological solutions to support the activity of governmental authorities;
• Managing implementation of program events.

The new program version reduced the number of governmental customers, and at the same time considerably increased their authority and responsibility for executing the Program events. Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the RF was elected governmental customer-coordinator, while Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Russian Agency for Information Technologies (Rosinformtechnologies), Federal Protection Service of Russia, and Russian Agency for Education (Rosobrazovanie) were selected its customers.

The planned volume of financial support to the program from the federal budget during years 2007-2010 will exceed 13 billion rubles. It is supposed that the program financing will be made in full, while since 2002 until present time the volume of financial support to the events of federal target program eRussia has not exceeded 25% of the planned volume.

In 2007 it is planned to allocate 2.8 billion rubles from the federal budget for implementation of the program events.

It is planned that as a result of the Program events efficiency of budget expenses on implementing information and communication technologies in the activity of governmental authorities will increase by 10%, while labor inputs for organization of information exchange on interdepartmental level will drop by 25% approximately.

Implementation of the program events will allow to lower administrative loading on citizens and organizations during their interaction with public authorities, improve the speed and quality of services provided by the government, which, in its turn, will raise the general level of public trust to the government.

From the economic viewpoint, according to calculations of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the RF, socio-economic and budget efficiency of implementing the program events during the years 2007-2010 will be around 74 billion rubles.