Regional conference on governmental public domain information in Russia

UNESCO website for information on the conference:

"The issue of access to governmental public domain Information was discussed by some 150 experts at a conference in Smolensk (Russia) in late June 2005 organized under the auspices of UNESCO�s Information for All Programme.

"The participants of the conference, that was organized by the Smolensk Region Administration and the UNESCO IFAP National Committee of Russia, discussed the collaboration between the Ministry of Culture and Mass Media of Russia and the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade of Russia within the framework of Federal Programme 'Electronic Russia'. The agreement outlines a roadmap of cooperation between the network of 'Community Centers of Socially Significant Information', established by the UNESCO IFAP National Committee of Russia, the Ministry of Culture and Mass Media of Russia, and the network of Public Access Centers, created by the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade of Russia. "