In Russia, it was proposed to develop a mobile application for paying housing and communal services bills online for the convenience of citizens. This was stated by Dmitry Kuzmin, deputy chairman of the Federation Council regional policy committee, at a meeting of the section “Digital transformation of construction, housing and communal services” at the Federation Council. DEA News.
It should be convenient for citizens to pay online, as the Senator pointed out at the meeting that discussed the issue of creating a single payment document across the country. “For this, it is necessary to develop a mobile application that will have the ability to solve any problem in the housing and communal services sector, as well as various service functions such as water distribution, apartment cleaning, insurance,” said Kuzmin. aforementioned.
According to him, digital transformation in Russia is one of the country’s national development goals and a key area of the construction industry, which faces “ambitious tasks to create many new digital platforms”.
The vice-chairman of the regional policy committee emphasized that the digitization of housing and communal services should begin with the already functioning state information system for housing and communal services. At the same time, he acknowledged that this system is not working to its full potential.
In January, the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Digital Commerce they are discussing the introduction of a single payment for utilities. To do this, it is recommended to switch to the form of electronic receipts in GIS housing and communal services.