it also unifies all existing information resources used to inform participants on the current status of modifications to and innovations in the egi and is responsible for the promotion of mechanisms for interworking between participants providing public services and executing government functions this aim is to be achieved through the provision of communication service availability under the governments guarantee of voice and data services via fixed networks with data rates of at least mbits for each subscriber the project will cover some villages townships and settlements of the russian federation with a total population amounting to some million