The second roundtable discussion within the framework of a partnership programme between United Nations Development Programme-Belarus and the Belarusian government programme ‘ICT Support to Parliament’ devoted to the issues of ICT and public administration and of e-governance strategies development took place in Minsk on Wednesday.
Belarusian and foreign experts, including Alexander Danilin from Microsoft Russia and Andrei Marusov, director of the Ukrainian Information Development Agency, participated in the discussion.
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The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the Information Development Programme (InfoDev), the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, and the Belarusian Information Fund have published their report on ICT Infrastructure and E-Readiness Assessments in the Republic of Belarus. The InfoDev-sponsored E-readiness assessment has been carried out by Belarusian experts in the framework of a Grant # ICT 015 scheme.
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President Lukashenko of Belarus has signed a decree on the creation of a “national legal internet portal”.
The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus has published its programme for the widespread introduction of information technology to government from 2003 to 2010.