IIS became the winner of the contest announced by the Federal Agency on Information Technologies in September 2007 on "Conducting R&D on Recommendations for the Establishment of a System of Implementation of Regional Informatization Programs and a System of Voluntary Certification of Solutions in the sphere of Regional Informatization".

Within this activity the analysis of current status of ICT use and development in the subjects of RF will be accomplished, methodological and regulatory framework for monitoring regional informatization programs’ in the area of standard software and technological solutions will be outlined, and an analysis of the status of regulatory basis for voluntary certification in ICT field will be conducted.