The successful experience of the PRC will allow the Russian Federation to protect information sovereignty
In order to combat personnel shortages and cybercrime, Russian IT specialists call for educating citizens from an early age on issues of information and technological security and training qualified personnel in open source institutions.
Participants in the scheduled meeting of the Federation Council spoke about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Igor Lyapunov, Vice President of Rostelecom PJSC for information security, emphasized that currently the demand for specialists in the field of IT technologies exceeds supply. According to him, high-quality career guidance and training in accelerated programs will allow the emerging deficit to be exhausted.
“The gap between the needs of the market and graduates (exceeded - ed.) is two and a half times. Universities graduate less than 10 thousand specialists per year, and the need is from 20 – 25 thousand. And every year the deficit accumulates. A possible solution is to include in the educational process, in addition to universities, also secondary vocational education and provide career guidance at the school level. School - cyber hygiene and career guidance, secondary specialized education - in those (areas - ed.) where higher education is not needed (monitoring engineer, response engineer). If we begin to fill the majority of specialists through secondary specialized education, not in five to six years, but in one and a half to two years, (it will be possible – ed.) to close this deficit,” Lyapunov suggested.
The expert noted that such an approach will contribute to the active development of the business and, thus, will completely fill the personnel shortage in 3-4 years.
In turn, artificial intelligence technology specialist Roman Dushkin recalled that the most important and vulnerable link in matters of protecting critical infrastructure is humans. He recommended turning to methods of cultivating China’s information culture.
“I would suggest launching a program for the mass elimination of technological illiteracy. Now this should be a technological educational program so that literally every person in our society, in our country, understands what technology is, how to interact with it, and how to ensure general technological and information security. You need to start this almost from kindergarten.
If you pay attention to the experience of our colleagues in China, they have already developed textbooks on artificial intelligence - almost for first-graders. Why we don’t think about this is not very clear to me. We could already introduce programs in schools to develop new high technologies and teach children not only basic fundamental skills and knowledge, but also those that will be needed in the future,” concluded Dushkin.
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