Ministry of Education to cut spending on “School Linux” three times

Ministry of Education has named the budget allocated in 2009 to equip Russia’s schools free software. As CNews Stanislav Filippov, deputy chief of the Informatization of the Ministry of Education, the agency will be ready this year to spend on “school Linux” from 180 to 250 million rubles. However, according to wished to remain anonymous members of the presidential administration, the most likely adoption of the first sum of the two mentioned.
The contractor will be determined on a competitive basis, said Stanislav Filippov. On the timing of the contest and his circumstances, he kept silent: in his words, “they are now being coordinated by the ministry.

Budget School Linux “in 2009 proved to be optimized in comparison with expectations. Previously it was assumed that this year the ACT project will be funded with 650 million rubles. Together, the two year transfer school computers to Linux cost the federal budget for the project were to be about 720 million rubles., Of which 59.5 million already spent on last year’s trial implementation in three pilot regions.

10 February 2009 | , , budget, deputy, education, equipment, ministry, school, waste

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