IDC'98 co-located with EXPO'98 Lisbon, Portugal

Centres involved in IDC'98:

• Athens, Greece 
• Aveiro, Portugal 
• Basel, Switzerland 
• Budapest, Hungary 
• Lisbon, Portugal 
• Ljubljana, Slovenia 
• Madrid, Barselona, Spain 
• Minsk, Belarus Republic 
• Ottawa, Canada 
• Prague, Czech Republic 
• Tokyo, Japan 

Supported by 
 

		Moscow City Government
		Moscow City Duma
		European Commission  (ACTS Programme, EXPERT Project)

Advisory Committee 

• Vladimir M. Platonov Chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Vice-Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation - Chairman
• Evgeny V. Egorov Minister of the Moscow City Government, Head of the Department of Support and Development of SME
• Alexander B. Korsak Head of Unit "Transportation and Communication", Moscow City Government
• Anatoly G. Lysenko Chairman of the Committee for Telecommunications and Mass Media, Moscow City Government
• Stepan V. OrlovDeputy of the Moscow City Duma, MCD Coordinator for information, informatics, communication and television
• Yuri V. Roslyak Vice-Premier of the Moscow City Government, Head of the Department of Economical Policy and Development of Moscow

• Stepan V. Orlov - Moscow City Duma - Chairman 
• Tatiana V. Ershova - Institute of the Information Society - Vice-Chairperson 
• Andrei S. Mendkovich - FREEnet – Vice-Chairman 
• Grigory M. Amnuel - EuroASK, Russian Information Society Institute 
• Svetlana S. Bachurina - Moscow City Government 
• Vladimir A. Belyaev - Moscow City Government 
• Alexander V. Bogdanov - Institute of High Performance Computing and Databases, Ministry of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation (Saint Petersburg) 
• Andrei G. Bystritsky - Television Company "TV-Centre"
• Marina A. Chekunova - Moscow City Duma
• Alexander Yu. Goncharuk - Corporation "Sistema-Telekom"
• Yuri E. Hohlov - Institute of the Information Society
• Alexei D. Ivanov - Municipal Enterprise "ECONOMIKA" 
• Boris V. Kristal'ny - State Duma of the Russian Federation 
• Alexander A. Konovalov - Association of Documentary Electrocommunication 
• Ivan N. Kurnosov - State Committee for Communications and Informatics of the Russian Federation
• Nikolai V. Kurmyshev - Novgorod State University
• Alexei N. Mikhailov - Moscow Mayor Office 
• Serghei T. Petrov - "Znanie-Sila" (Knowledge is Power) Magazine
• Yuri I. Pripachkin - Moscow Telecommunication Corporation 
• Roman M. Reznikov - Moscow City Government 
• Alexander I. Rusakov - Yaroslavl State University 
• Liverij L. Semenov - Moscow Committee for Science and Technology
• Vladimir A. Serdyuk - Moscow Telecommunication Corporation 

		Sun Microsystems - General Sponsor
		CROC Company
		Interprax Company
		KCK Company
		Kraftway Corporation
		Moscow Telecommunication Corporation
		Quadrics Supercomputers World (Support cancelled on 07.09.1998)
		RICOR Group
		Sistema-Telekom Corporation

Information Support
 

		TV-Center - General Information Sponsor
		ComputerWorld/Russia
		InfoArt
		Interactive Information Agency
		Znanie-Sila (Knowledge is Power) Magazin

Organisational Support 
 

		Moscow City Duma High-Level Exper Group on "Information, Informatics, Communications, Telematics and Television"
		Institute of the Information Society
		Moscow Committee for Science and Technology
		Municipal Enterprise "ECONOMIKA"
		Russian Information Society Institute, Moscow Branch

Technical Support 
 

		Moscow Telecommunication Corporation  - General Sponsor
		FORE Systems
		FREEnet
		Institute of High Performance Computing and Databases (Saint Petersburg)
		Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
		MTS
		Novgorod State University
		Sistema-Trank Company
		Sun Microsystems
		Yaroslavl State University

Objectives and Scope 

Information Society is one of major worldwide concepts on the boundary of milleniums. Today the power of a state is measured not by industrial and even less by military potential but primarily by the ability to integrate organically and timely in the global information space, to create and to use information and knowledge – the main welfare factors in the forthcoming information age. 

Big cities are leaders of Information Society development in many countries because they often possess most strong information infrastructure and information resources, and master most recent information and telecommunication technologies. Russia does not make any exception. 

The Information Society development is a complex problem including political, economical, social, cultural, legislative as well as technological aspects. Our conference is aimed at discussing a broad scope of issues referred to Russian major cities integration in the Information Society of the 21^st century. 

Our conference is a partner of IDC'98 sponsored by the European Commission and going in parallel with international exhibition "EXPO'98". Our conference will be attended by statesmen, politicians and specialists from Moscow, Novosibirsk, Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl and probably from other cities of Russia. Their talks, speeches, interviews and presentations will be transmitted to auditoriums of all participating cities in interactive mode. The welcome of the Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov as well as one of plenary presentations will be broadcasted via global network to IDC'98 cities. 

How to contribute 

Those wishing to present papers for one of the subject listed are kindly requested to submit a 500 words summary to the Organising Committee. E-mail submissions are preferred. Please use the address given below: 

Deadlines 

Summary received: 31 August 1998 
Notification of acceptance: 7 September 1998 
Full paper received: 25 September 1998 
Conference: 25-26 September 1998 

Proceedings will be produced after the conference. The details of the local organisation, registration etc. will be published and distributed before 1 September 1998. 

Contact information 

Stepan Orlov – Chairman of the Organising Committee 
Tel./Fax: 7 (095) 9216817 
e-mail: idc98-moscow@risi.ru 

Tatiana Ershova – Vice-Chairperson of the Organising Committee 
Tel./Fax: 7 (095) 9216817 
e-mail: ershova@risi.ru 

Andrei Mendkovich – Vice-Chairman of the Organising Committee 
Tel. 7 (095) 135 8824 
Fax: 7 (095) 135 4133 
e-mail: e-mail: asm@free.net