Russian Experience in Information Technology Cooperation with Two Koreas: Lessons and Prospects
Abstract
Russia has had a rather late start in the development of information technologies due to a negative bias in the Soviet R and D policy. But, these days the information technology revolution is quickly picking up steam across the Russian Federation. Solid fundamental education, based on centuries-old traditions of the Russian classic school and the Soviet-era emphasis on natural sciences, constitute a good milieu for emergence of a vast number of qualified and outstanding computer scientists and practitioners. Specifically, the demand for modern technologies by the Soviet military-industrial complex, which competed against the United States for the first place in the world at the height of Cold War, led to the creation of a system of recruitment of talented personnel and the organization of military-oriented research that had an extraordinary potential and produced magnificent results. Not everything has been lost in the difficult period of reforms. As the pace of economic recovery and reforms quickened and the affluence of the general public began to increase, the Russian government began to place greater emphasis on information technologies. Consequently, increasing market and government-generated demand for new IT-related products and services resulted in exponential growth of the IT sector in modern Russia.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- AD1032411
Entities
People
- Georgy Toloraya
Organizations
- Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies