Our Country’s Development Follows One of the Worst Possible Scenarios. Intense development of information technologies throughout the world made many advanced countries acknowledge the fact of transition of the modern society to the new Information Society. Is our country ready to develop the Information Society? Which problems should be resolved to ensure this process be successful? - Chairman of the Board of IIS Yuri Hohlov answers these questions to correspondent Agunda Alborova.

ICT and Gross Regional Product. What differs developed country from developing one? Primarily the use of information and communication technologies. Without them it is impossible to have modern knowledge-based society, a society which attributes the leading role in economic development not to raw materials or material products but to the production and use of intellectual products - creation, processing, transfer and use of information and knowledge. - Sergey Shaposhnik, Head of Directorate for IS Development Monitoring, IIS; Alexander Yevtiushkin, Head of Directorate for Innovative and Investment Projects, IIS; Gennady Pazin, IIS expert.