MOSCOW, December 26Russia has an advantageous position in the platformization of industries; Yandex, for example, beat Google in the taxi market, and this shows that the country has its own competencies, said Assistant to the Russian President Maxim Oreshkin in an interview with Expert magazine.
The first issue of the updated Expert magazine was published on Tuesday. The magazine has been published since 1995; in 2023, the VEB.RF group became a shareholder of the magazine publisher.
According to Oreshkin, technology will change all traditional industries over the coming decades: energy, food production, healthcare, transport and others. In addition, the formation of a data economy deserves to be a separate trend.
“When we have a large amount of data, the process of reengineering market institutions and platformization of entire industries begins to gain momentum. The simplest example is Yandex Taxi, a service that has completely replaced the market. We no longer have free pricing; all tariffs are set by the platform. This is a kind of digital state plan at a new stage of development. Platformization of individual markets is something that we will observe step by step throughout the entire economy,» Oreshkin explained.
According to him, we are talking not only about economic and market areas; the arrival of platforms will also occur in the social sphere. “If we are talking about education, then this opens the way for an individual approach to each student and the formation of an individual trajectory of his learning and development. In healthcare, we are already beginning to reap the first fruits of this work, only in the initial history of the use of artificial intelligence for image analysis and so on. «These are separate services that will later become part of a large platform that will allow us to analyze and manage a person’s health, suggest problem areas, optimal behavior, and so on, so that everything is in order with the health of us and our loved ones,” — added the presidential aide.
«It’s great that Russia is now in a very advantageous position. The example of Yandex, which won competition from Google in the taxi market, demonstrates that we have both our own competencies and companies that are actively implementing these approaches,” he emphasized.