Belarusian pro-democracy actors have already established their presence online. The next step is to use their online venues in order to effectively consolidate agents of democratic change. The Internet , and new ICTs in general are seen as tools for circumventing authoritarian state pressures and surmounting communication cleavage as they allow it allows to significantly reduce the costs associated with political communication generate new ways of interactions between individuals, which in turn produce qualitative effects on political activism.
A seminar on E-Transformation for Competitiveness and Growth was carried out in Minsk in June 30. The seminar was organized by the World Bank representatives in the Republic of Belarus
Project of Belarusian informational society development strategy for 2011-2015 assumes that in 2015, every higher education institution will have broadband access to the Internet.
Yesterday Ministry of Communications and Informatisation gave more detailsconcerning the Decree of the Council of Ministers #644 from April 29, 2010 "On some questions of improving usage of the national segment of global Internet computer network".
Belarusian Operational-Analytical center together with Ministry of Communications and Informatisation is preparing a document concerning specifications of limiting access to Internet resources.
There will be almost thrice as many stationary broadband access ports in Belarus (3 million), users will have 100Mbit/s channels, there will be twice as much wireless connection subscribers.