Russia (bbabo.net), - The VKontakte social network of the VK ecosystem is included in the list of socially significant information resources. It was approved by the government of the Russian Federation. This means that Russians will be able to use it even with a zero balance on the account of the Internet operator.
The decision was made by the commission of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation in pursuance of the Federal Law "On the Affordable Internet", approved in the summer of 2021. This is an element of state support for domestic players in this market.
Social networks, Internet search engines, websites of authorities and state institutions, etc. were selected by the government commission to participate in the pilot project. The final list was approved after the necessary regulatory framework was fully formed. According to the government decree, only those resources that met a number of mandatory criteria could get into it.
One of them: the daily active audience must exceed 5 million users. For social networks, such a criterion was also established as the presence of pages of authorities and state media - there should be at least five thousand of those on the resource.
In this regard, the social network "VKontakte" successfully passed the selection sieve. Thus, the monthly audience of the resource is about 70 million people. This suggests that the social network has become an integral part of life for many people in the country. In addition to communication and entertainment, VKontakte is a source of useful information. It can be called an additional "window" for receiving electronic public services. Suffice it to say that over 35,000 pages of various government bodies have already been registered on this resource.
For users, this is important, first of all, because they receive not only free, but also prompt access to competent information, which is updated in real time by various federal departments. Thus, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation on its page publishes up-to-date data on the situation with coronavirus in the country. Users can also receive other important information, such as news from the life of their cities and regions, scooping them from local government communities.
A feature of the project is that telecom operators, even with a zero balance, will provide their subscribers with access to any socially significant resource included in the list. That is, users will receive guaranteed access to social networks. This will allow them to always stay in touch with family and friends, friends and business partners, keep abreast of the news of the communities they are interested in (for example, volunteer movements), learn and even run their own business.
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