The Editorial Board of the Journal informs all its readers, authors and subscribers that we have successfully passed the re-certification process, and our Journal is recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission for the publication of materials master's and doctoral dissertations.

Scientific and analytical Journal "Information Society" has been published by the Institute of the Information Society since 1999. It covers the issues of the Information Society development in Russia and abroad. It was founded in 1989 and called as the "Herald of the Russian Society of Computer Science and Engineering", and since 1997 it has been published under its present name.

Currently it is a unique Russian edition that consistently and consecutively highlights the state policy on the information society and multifaceted stakeholder activities in the field of the Information Society.   Its materials aim to shape the Russian community of scientists, experts, politicians and practitioners that persistently study ICT opportunities for social and economic development.

Journal subscribers include federal and regional authorities and local self-governments, research and educational institutions, libraries of Russia and CIS countries, non-profit companies and organizations, individual ICT experts.

Since February 2010, the journal has been included in the list of periodicals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for publishing master's and doctoral dissertation research materials.