The Role of Governments and All Stakeholders in the Promotion of Information Society Development in the CIS Countries
Keywords:
Strategy and program of the information society development, national e-strategies, taking into account national peculiarities, public-private partnerships, multilateral partnership, CIS Member States, venture capital.Abstract
Focusing on the cooperation of the government and all stakeholders to ensure the conditions for the information society development, the authors presented the results of the monitoring based on international criteria, which was conducted in the CIS countries in 2015. The criteria included the availability and quality of policies and programs of the information society development, the importance of ICT in the government vision of the future, the success of the government in ICT promotion, the use of multi-stakeholder partnerships mechanism, the availability of venture capital. It is shown that the processes of the information society development in different CIS countries are uneven. Based on the assessment of current situation, the recommendations for the supranational CIS bodies and the governments of the Commonwealth countries were made.
