The Concept of Ensuring the Sovereignty in the Sphere of Digital Development until 2030 was approved in Belarus

17 January 2025

By the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated December 31, 2024 No. 1074, the Concept of Ensuring the Sovereignty of the Republic of Belarus in the Sphere of Digital Development until 2030 was approved.

The Concept reflects the essence and content of the problem of ensuring the sovereignty of Belarus in the field of digital development, the vision of the digital development of our country in the context of the rapid dynamics of digital transformations in the world, the emergence of new risks, challenges and threats to the digital development of the state.

The main objectives of the Concept are to ensure national interests in the field of digital development and to create a basis for the formation of a mechanism for ensuring the digital sovereignty of the Republic of Belarus.

It is expected that the results of the implementation of the Concept will be:

• effective government regulation and efficient implementation of government policy in the field of digital development;
• high degree of digitalization of the public administration system, economy, social sphere;
• creation of favorable economic and organizational conditions for accelerated development and implementation of technological innovations to solve socio-economic problems, ensure the competitiveness of domestic high-tech products and the efficiency of their production, as well as the formation of long-term demand for these products;
• exchange of competencies, successful practices and ICT between sectors of the economy, a high level of IT competencies of managers and employees regardless of the organization’s field of activity, digital literacy of the population, ensured by the system of training, retraining and advanced training;
• development of scientific research in accordance with the needs of domestic industries of production and trade of ICT, ICT services, growth in the number of highly qualified scientific workers in the IT education system.

The action plan for the implementation of the Concept will be developed and approved by the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus within three months.

Digital development of the state and ensuring digital sovereignty contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 9 and the other SDGs by the Republic of Belarus.

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