IIS representatives took part in the 5th International Forum “Innovations. Business. Education” organised by the Government of Yaroslavl Region (November 13-14, 2014)

Participants of the Forum “Innovations. Business. Education” 2014 This year, as part of the Forum, several events on topical issues of socio-economic development of Russian regions were organized.

Alexander Rusakov and Tatiana Ershova in the Forum lobby The most important theme was the construction of a strategic management planning system of the region. Theme urgency was dictated by the Federal Law “On the strategic planning in the Russian Federation” adopted in June 2014. This was outlined by the Deputy Governor of the Yaroslavl Region, Alexander Krasnov at the opening of the Forum.

The following topics were discussed at the forum:

Scientific and educational cluster of the region: possibilities and limitations
Regional informatisation: actual issues and directions of development

Within each theme, conferences, round tables, workshops, seminars and debates show were held.

Rector of Yaroslavl State University by name of Pavel Demidov, co-founder and member of Supervisory Board of the Institute of the Information Society (IIS), Alexander Rusakov acted as a moderator of the Plenary Session.

Tatiana Ershova, Alexander Aygistov, Dmitry Satin and Vladimir Tikhomirov at the Plenary Session of the Conference 3 Director General of IIS, Dr. Tatiana Ershova, actively participated in the work of the Conference 3 “ Regional informatisation: actual issues and directions of development”. At the Plenary Session of the Conference she presented the report "Media literacy and information literacy of the citizens: Global context and challenges in Russia" (in Russian) prepared in co-authorship with Head of Direction of the prospective projects of IIS Alexander Evtyushkin.

At the Plenary Session of the Conference also the following experts spoke:

Dmitry Satin, Adviser to the Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation presented the report “Results of e-government development in 2014 and future plans”
Vladimir Tikhomirov, President of the International Consortium “Electronic University”, Chairman of the Advisory Board on e-Learning and Information technology in Education at the State Duma Committee on Education, reported on “New directions of investments in e-learning for enhancing the competitiveness of the region”.

More detail information on the Forum can be found at: http://www.ibo-yar.ru/conf2014/

Partners
UN Public Administration Network UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education e-Development Thematic Group Government of the Republic of Mordovia The Cabinet of Republic of Tatarstan Government of Ryazan Region Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation POLYMEDIA Group FREEnet Group UNESCO Information for All

Membership
Global Knowledge Partnership Russian e-Development Partnership Russian Engineering Academy