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1. Introduction

The e-Development Partnership in Russia (hereafter Partnership or PRIOR) was established on November 30, 2001 on the basis of consortium of the Russia Development Gateway Project, the latter being initiated in March 2001 with the support of the info Dev Program of the World Bank.

The Partnership has been developing dynamically: since it was founded the number of the participants has increased more than five times. The member organizations of PRIOR represent all major development communities: the government, business, civil society, research and educational community, donors and investors [1].

The Partnership members represent different organizations - from individual entrepreneur companies to the major Russian universities and research institutes, renowned public organizations, and leaders of the Russian ICT market, including RosBusinessConsulting, IT, Borlas IBC, Cyril and Methodius, Compulink, Moscow Telecommunications Corporation COMCOR, NIKoil Financial Group, Rambler Internet Holding, Research Institute "Voskhod", ASVT Public Corporation, Institute of the Information Society, ROCIT, as well as local representative offices of Verysell, Golden Telecom, Sybase, Microsoft, UnitSpace, and others. Starting in February 2003, individual participants and online media started joining PRIOR. The Partnership membership includes different organizations - from one-man companies to the major Russian universities and research institutes, renowned social organizations, leaders of the Russian ICT market, including RosBusinessConsulting, IT, Borlas IBC, Cyril and Methodius, Compulink, Moscow Telecommunications Corporation COMCOR, NIKoil Financial Group, Rambler Internet Holding, Research Institute "Voskhod", ASVT Public Corporation, Institute of the Information Society, ROCIT, as well as local representative offices of Verysell, Golden Telecom, Sybase, Microsoft, UnitSpace and others. Starting from February 2003, individual participants (private persons, online media) started joining PRIOR.

PRIOR's principles and philosophy are shared by 29 Russian regions. Independent regional segments of PRIOR were created in the North-Western Federal District, in Stavropol Territory, as well as in Kaliningrad, Novgorod, Tula and Perm regions, in South Ural region (in Chelyabinsk region as well as municipal segment in the City of Magnitogorsk), in the Republic of Tatarstan, and in Khanty-Mansi autonomous region (Yugra) with its municipal segment in Nizhnevartovsk.

PRIOR is a voluntary association of organizations interested in assisting Russia to gain a prominent position among the leading developed countries within the emerging Information Society by way of implementing the modern technologies and utilizing its strong intellectual potential and rich scientific and cultural resources.

This large-scale problem can be resolved only through synergetic collaboration and systematic long-term efforts of all stakeholders in the process of developing and implementing Russia's national development strategy for the emerging global Information Society [2] and the Knowledge Economy [3]. Such approach corresponds to the recommendations provided by the competent international associations.

In particular, the Digital Opportunities Task Force (), created upon signing of the in July 2000, emphasized in its recommendations to the G8 leaders at the July 2001 Summit in Genoa that the strategy for the Information Society development should become the main and unalienable part of the national development strategy of any state in present conditions. In addition, in the process of preparing for the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) much attention is paid to the development of clear expression of political will and of concrete action plan aimed at achieving the goals of the Information Society reflecting multiple interests of all stakeholders.

The (MDGs) reflect the necessity to undertake the measures to enable everyone to benefit from the new technologies, particularly information and communication technologies.

(UN ICT Task Force) created a special working group on national and regional e-Strategies. The purpose of this working group is to expand the international cooperation and experience sharing in the area of e-Strategy development.

Acting as an independent public-private initiative, PRIOR studies thoroughly all global development [4] tendencies, but is largely guided by the practical experience of its numerous participants and takes into account Russia's specificity.

The objective of the present document is creation of a "guidebook" for the Partnership's further development, which implies development of strategic vision and presenting mission, goals and objectives, main directions and implementation stages as well as methods of evaluation of the PRIOR Strategy implementation and correcting its activity. The first version of the PRIOR Strategy was adopted at the Organizational Conference of the Partnership, which took place in November 2001. The present edition of the Strategy is summing up almost three years of activity of the Partnership taking into account the accumulated experience and new circumstances.

PRIOR Strategy contains the most important conditions for planning further activity and represents the basis for dynamic development of the PRIOR Action Plan.


 
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