The meeting was organized by the Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Facilitation Meeting of Action Lines C1, C7 and C11 is being held within the framework of the Forum for the eighth time. It is open for all stakeholders from public and private sectors, civil society, international organizations and experts’ community.

The main goal of the meeting is to organize a platform for information and experience exchange between participants, determination of priority spheres within the framework of operative directions, creation of synergism between participants for increasing efficiency of knowledge exchange and establishing cooperation for fulfilling WSIS decisions at international, regional and national levels.

In the course of the meeting issues related to e-government development and citizens and businesses engagement in the process of public services delivery were discussed. Based on the outcomes of the meeting a report will be prepared, which will be reviewed in the course of the discussion of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Yuri Hohlov, Chairman of the IIS Board of Directors, who is also a coordinator of a subgroup on “Open government” within the framework of C7eGov work, took part in the panel discussion, which took place during the meeting. Yuri Hohlov made a presentation on global initiatives for open government, reported on work of international organizations, non-governmental organizations and partnerships, which work in this field.

The panel discussion was also attended by Denis Sverdlov, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the RF, who reported on “ICT in Russia for Sustainable Economic Growth and Social Development”.  During the presentation he reported on the implementation of the E-government Strategy in the Russian Federation, noted improvement of the Russia’s position in UN DESA ratings on e-government, informed participants of the meeting about development of telecommunications sector, as well as about creation and development of IT-parks in our country.

Among participants of the discussion there were representatives of UN DESA/DPADM, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Microsoft Corporation, ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau, E-government Authority in Bahrain, Institute of Management and Sustainable Development of Romania.

Following the results of the meeting recommendations were elaborated, which are included in the report on the event, and will be presented in the course of discussion of the Post 2015 Development Agenda (WSIS +10).