internet and society

Internet  and  Society  Russian  Outlook  

Ivan  Begtin  Director  of  NGO  “Informational  Culture”      

Bullet points, they kill kittens. This time we saved so much of them as possible

Is  Russian  Internet  different  ?  Probably  

Social  networks  

     55.5  mln  Russian  users  (total  84.8  mln)  

   same  as  Vkontakte            

Facebook  and  Twitter  are  popular  only    among  educated  people  from  big  cities  like  

Moscow            

Major  trends  

1st.  Russian  Internet  population  growing  rapidly  

2nd.  Mobile  Internet  everythere  (except  rural  areas)  

3rd.  New  media:  data  journalism  and  others  

4th.  Government  is  adopting  and  using  Internet  

Russian  Internet  

49%  Internet  Users  %  of  population  

70  mln.  Number  of  Internet  users  

6th  ranked  against  other  countries  

Mobile  Internet  facts  

28.5%Mobile  Internet  users  all  Russia  

38.3%  Moscow  mobile  internet  users  

Source:  Liveinternet.ru  statistics  1  may  2013  

13.6%Mobile  Internet  users  at  Kemerovskaya  Oblast  (Siberia)  

Mobile  Internet  platforms  Android  14%  Internet  Users  3.3x  growth  since  May  2012  Growing  rapidly  

iPhone+iPad  9%  Internet  Users  2.5x  growth  sine  May  2012  Stable    

Symbian  7.5%  Internet  Users  2.5x  growth  sine  May  2012  Falling    

Source:  Liveinternet.ru  statistics  1  may  2013  

New  Media  

Data  Journalism  Open  Data  visualization  and  stories  

Citizen  Journalism  Bloggers  as  journalists  and  news  sources  

Paid  content  Media  that  provide  paid  access  to  articles  (Vedomosti)    

Citizen  journalism  is  very  popular.  It’s  everywhere!  

Data  journalism  is  key  discussion  topic.    

Some  media  provide  articles  as  paid  content.    But  it  isn’t  popular.  

Government  approach  

Adapt    Open  Government  and  Open  Data  initiatives  

Control  New  “harsh”  regulation  and  censorship.    

Use  Huge  government  IT-­‐projects  based  on  Internet  infrastructure  

Government  adapts  

Citizen  engagement  

Crowdsourcing  

Open  Data  

Citizen  control  

Open  Government  

Government  Control  

Public  opinion  used  to  create  censorship  tools  

Civil  society  projects  are  under  pressure  

Government  came  to  rule  

More  responsibility  for  media  

Government  uses  Internet  

Government  contract  system  (zakupki.gov.ru)  

Major  government  whole  Russia  projects  

Government  public  body  monitoring  system  (bus.gov.ru)  

Federal  tariff  monitoring  system  (fstrf.ru)  

And  many  others!  

Questions?  

Ivan  Begtin  Email:  ibegtin@infoculture.ru  website:  http://infoculture.ru