OREANDA-NEWS. June 15, 2011. "National Software Platform as a Priority in the Development of Information and Communications Technologies" conference has been held in Moscow on May 26, 2011. The conference was arranged by Sirius concern, the coordinator of the National Software Platform and a part of Russian Technologies Corporation.

The technological platform National Software Platform (NSP) was approved by the government’s Commission for High Technologies and Innovations on April 1, 2011. NSP brings together developers of strategically important innovative software and focuses on free software as the most promising segment of domestic software engineering. According to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who chairs the commission, technological platforms should create incentives for the government and businesses to be active in innovations and raise funds for research and training of high-qualified specialists.

"The domestic software market is expected to expand fivefold by 2020 without the NSP technological platform, whereas it is expected to surge more than 12 times by that time if the platform is up and running," Sirius CEO Leonid Ukhlinov said at the conference.