Dear Partners,

This page presents an overview of publications related to the Russian e-Development Partnership (PRIOR) and its key project - Russia Development Gateway (RuDG). These are PRIOR's own publications, works by PRIOR most active participants published elsewhere, as well as other media publications devoted to PRIOR and RuDG.

The list of these materials is provided below in the reverse chronological order.

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Index of Russian Regions' E-Readiness 2004-2005 / Ed. by T. Ershova, Yu. Hohlov, S. Shaposhnik. - 2nd updated and extended edition. - M.: Institute of the Information Society, 2005. - 214 p. A short version of the Index is available at the E-Region web site. The full version can be viewed in the library of the Institute of the Information Society. (Text in Russian).

Andrey Vaganov. Will Russian Regions Be E-Regions? // Nezavissimaya Gazeta (The Independent Newspaper), 11 October 2005. - The article discusses the Index of Russian Regions' E-Readiness 2004-2005 and Rating of Russian Regions' E-Government Readiness 2004-2005 developed by the Directorate for Monitoring the Information Society Development, Institute of the Information Society, with support of the Russian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. Sergey Shaposhnik and Yuri Hohlov, members of PRIOR Expert Council, expand on the subject. (Text in Russian).

Yuri Hohlov. Our Country's Development Follows One of the Worst Possible Scenarios // Boss-IT. - N 1. - 2005. Intense development of information technologies throughout the world made many advanced countries acknowledge the fact of transition of the modern society to the new Information Society. Is our country ready to develop the Information Society? Which problems should be resolved to ensure this process be successful? (Text in Russian).

Who Governs Russian Internet and How? Legal Regulation of the Internet: Materials of a round table within the Infocom-2005 Forum / Ed. by Yu. Hohlov. - M.: Institute of the Information Society, 2004. - 48 p. (United Nations ICT Task Force Europe and Central Asia Regional Network Series 3). (Text in Russian).

Journalism in the Information Society: New Opportunities and New Challenges / Ed. by T. Ershova. - M.: Institute of the Information Society, 2004. - 184 p. (United Nations ICT Task Force Europe and Central Asia Regional Network Series 2).

Sergey Shaposhnik, Alexander Yevtiushkin, Gennady Pazin. ICT and Gross Regional Product // Boss-IT. - N 1. - 2005. What differs developed country from developing one? Primarily the use of information and communication technologies. Without them it is impossible to have modern knowledge-based society, a society which attributes the leading role in economic development not to raw materials or material products but to the production and use of intellectual products - creation, processing, transfer and use of information and knowledge. (Text in Russian).

Vladimir Drozhzhinov. Digital Divide // Boss-IT. - N 1. - 2005. Absence of a national strategy for transition to the Information Society can considerably widen the gap between Russian economy and those of advanced countries in short-term. According to, Director e-Government Competence Center, Russia's future depends on efficiency with which federal, regional and municipal authorities, business and community will be resolving the tasks of informatization. (Text in Russian).

"Who is Writing on the Fence"? National Means of Internet Governance are Inefficient" / Nezavisimaya Gazeta (The Independent Newspaper), 18 January 2005. By Andrey Vaganov, interview with Yuri Hohlov. In Russian.

Attention Economy. - M.: Rambler Foundation, 2004. - 43. p. In Russian. Available in the library of the PRIOR Directorate (info@russia-gateway.ru).

Promoting Enabling Environment for Information Society Development in CIS Countries: Proceedings of the United Nations Information and Communication Technology Task Force UN ICT Task Force Europe and Central Asia Regional Network Meeting, Moscow, October 13, 2004 / Ed. by Tatiana Ershova and Yuri Hohlov . - M.: Institute of the Information Society, 2004. - 200 p. (United Nations ICT Task Force Europe and Central Asia Regional Network Series 1).

Investisms: Elements of Science of Fabricating and Disorganizing Projects / By Sergei Nekhaev. - M., 2004. (Golden Collection of Investments). In Russian.

Russia e-Readiness Assessment: Analytical Report / Ed. by Sergei Shaposhnik. - M., 2004. - 224 p. (Attention: very heavy PDF file, 2,7 Mb).

ICT and its impact in Central and Eastern Europe / Ed. by Tatiana Ershova // PARTNERS - The Global Knowledge Partnership Newsletter. - May, 2004.

World Summit on the Information Society: Expectations of the Russian Regions / Ed. by Tatiana Ershova. - Ìîscow: Institute of the Information Society, 2004. - 300 p. Proceedings of the workshops organised by the British Council in Russia and the Russian e-Development Partnership in four cities of the Russian Federation: Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Irkutsk, and Krasnoyarsk in October 2003.

Partnership for Information Society Development in the North-West of Russia (PRIOR NW): Documents and informational materials. Vol. 2 (March 2004). - St Petersburg: Non-Commercial Partnership "PRIOR NW", 2004. - 44 p. This edition is prepared for the participants of the 3rd Interregional Conference of PRIOR NW (St Petersburg, 22 March 2004) and International Conference "Development of the Saint Petersburg ICT Network within the Norhtern e-Dimension Programme" (Lappeenranta, Finland, 23 March 2004). In Russian.

International Co-operation in the Area of ICT Development: Analytical Survey / Partnership for Information Society Development in the North-West of Russia. - 2nd improved ed. - St Petersburg: Non-Commercial Partnership "PRIOR NW", 2004. - 72 p. The survey is published within the Boundary Co-operation Development Project of the Tacis programme of the European Commission and the Interreg III Programme for the South-Eastern Finland "Development of the Saint Petersburg ICT Network within the Norhtern e-Dimension Programme". In Russian.

Tatiana Ershova. Our Goal: Societal Development through Human Development // Managerial Consulting. - N 3-4 (15-16). - 2003. - Pp. 28-43. The article presents the Russian e-Development Partnership's ideology that focuses on the development of the human being as the main value; consideres the new paradigm of the social and economic development where equitable cooperation of key development forces of the society is gaining more and more in importance; gives information on PRIOR main projects; analyzes PRIOR role in the elaboration and implementation of a national development strategy in the context of a Knowledge Society development. In Russian.

Russian Information Society Development Gateway and regional development gateways network // Elektronnyi region (e-Region ), # 1, 2003. - Pp. 41-46.

Moscow hosted conference "Interoperability Framework and International Standards of Information Exchange" // New Technologies (Àliance Media), 23.07.2003. The conference was organized by PRIOR participants within the Partnership's acivities. Representatives of PRIOR governing bodies made several conceptual presentations on integration of information systems with web service technologies with the aim to make interaction between government agencies (G2G), government and citizens (G2C), government and business (G2B) more efficient. In Russian.

PRIOR Newsletter. - May-June 2003.

Andrey Kolesov. The way to the Information Society goes through portal technologies // PC WEEK / Russian Edition, # 22 (388), 17-23 June 2003, p. 8. In Russian.

Valery Korzhov. Further development of the Russia Development Gateway // Computerworld Russia, # 22, 10 June 2003, p. 37. Online version (in Russian).

Tatiana Ershova, Yuri Hohlov. Gateways-in-the-box: joint product by PRIOR and Microsoft brings the society closer to informational openness // Nezavisimaya Gazeta (The Independent Newspaper), 6 June 2003, p. 10 (rubric"Internet"). Online version (in Russian).

Gateway for government agencies: Implementation handbook (technical documentation) // Information Society: research and analytical journal, # 1, 2003, p. 116-120. In Russian. The article describes the internal structure of the Russia Development Gateway, which has been created at Microsoft products and technologies and is offered as a prototype for government portals of different levels. In Russian.

Portals in the box // Rambler-media, 28.05.2003. Material, summing up the results of press-conference of 26.05.2003, dedicated to the presentation of a new version of the Russia Development Gateway on the basis of latest Microsoft products and technologies. Russia Development Gateway was presented as a tool, stimulating dynamical and full-fledged Russia's development in the gobal Information Society and Knowledge Economy. In Russian.

Version of the Russia Development Gateway is created // @Astera: Excellence in Communications, 27.05.2003. Material based on the the results of press-conference dedicated to the presentation of a new version of the Russia Development Gateway on the basis of latest Microsoft products and technologies. Russia Development Gateway is presented as an integrated solution, which includes all necessary components for an e-Government portal at any level.

Microsoft and PRIOR announced creation of the Russian Development Gateway, provided by the Fedeal Target Program "eRussia" as an event N 11 // PRIME-TASS, 27.05.2003. Several specifications by PRIOR Directorate: the article says that RuDG is created on the basis of Microsoft products and technologies, whereas it is a version of "portal-in-the-box", which will be offered to PRIOR participants, as well as to the participants of the Development Gateway Program in other countries. In Russian.

Rambler is ready to support Russia gateway // IT-daily, 27 May 2003. The article is connected with the press-conference by PRIOR and Microsoft, conducted on May, 26. It refers to the history of Russia Development Gateway creation and perspectives of introducing it on different technological platforms - using free software and Microsoft products and technologies. In Russian.

Microsoft reckons on government order // Vremya novostej (News Time), 27.05.2003. In Russian. Material, based on the results of the press conference of 26 May, dedicated to the presentation of the new version of the Russian Development Gateway on the basis of latest Microsoft products and technologies. Comments of the PRIOR Directorate: a) the program "Development Gateway", initiated by the World Bank in 2000, is presented in the article as a World Bank program, whereas at present it is implemented within the framework of Development Gateway Foundation's activities; b) the article says that experimental version of the country gateway on the basis of Microsoft products was first tested in several Russian regions, whereas Russia Development Gateway formed basis for acting prototype of the portal within the framework of cooperation among Microsoft and PRIOR, which is planned to be used for creating government gateways on different levels; c) the article also states, that the created version of the development gateway "will be spread in other countries participating in the Development Gateway program", whereas it was referring to the fact, that this version will be offered for those countries, but the choice of technological platform will be left for national teams in those countries; the article also says that the "Russia Development Gateway" was created in November, 2001 after the creation of PRIOR, while the gateway's development started in March, 2001, and PRIOR was formed in November 2001 on the basis of the Russia Development Gateway project consortium; the description of technological solutions also needs some corrections. For correct information please see the official press-release prepared jointly by Microsoft and PRIOR.

PRIOR Newsletter. - March-April 2003.

T. Golovina. Ural Information Forum as a Reflection of the Situation with the Information Society Development in Russia // Newspaper "Magnitogorsky Rabochiy" (Worker of Magnotogorsk) of 03.04.2003. Key words: single (coordinated, national) information policy, bridging digital divide; National Strategy "Russia in the Information Age", partnership of development communities, Russia e-Development Partnership. In Russian.

Vershinskaya O., Ershova T. Information Society in Russia as a Problem of Social and Political Choice and Public Initiative // Universe of Russia: Sociology, Ethnology. Vol. XII, No. 1, 2003 (M.: Higher School of Economics), p. 101-108. In Russian.

T. Golovina. Can We Stay at the Same Place? (PRIOR-Magnit - Russia's First Municipal e-Development Partnership // Newspaper "Magnitogorsky Rabochiy" (Worker of Magnotogorsk) of 11.03.2003. The article presents goals and objectives of the e-Development Partnership in Magnitogorsk City, its membership and an invitation to join it. In Russian.

E-Development Partnership in the North-West of Russia: PRIOR NW Yearbook 2002 / Ed. by N.V. Borisov and R.M. Yusupov. - Saint Petersburg, 2003. - 32 p. The brochure includes materials for the report (HTML file) of PRIOR NW Coordinating Board, the chronicle of events (HTML file) of PRIOR NW. In Russian.

The dialogue of civilisations. From the UN ICT Task Force Regional Network for Europe and Central Asia to the World Summit on the Information Society. (The article, which gives information on the Russian e-Development Partnership, is written by Andrey Korotkov and Tatiana Ershova for the book "Challenges and Partnerships: Opening Up ICT to the World. A contribution of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force to the World Summit on the Information Society" presented at the 4th Meeting of UN ICT TF in Geneva, 20-22 February 2003). In English.

PRIOR Newsletter. - January-February 2003.

PRIOR Newsletter. - November-December 2002.

Global Knowledge - Russia: Special issue of the research and analytical journal "Information Society" (#5-6, 2002), which includes proceedings of and materials related to the international conference "Partnership Networks as Tools to Enhance Information Society and Knowledge Economy Development" (Moscow, 9 December 2002). The event was organized within PRIOR activities in cooperation with a number of international partners and with financial support provided by the Global Knowledge Partnership.

Vershinskaya O.N., Ershova T.V. Collective reason as a pre-requisite of strategic decision-making in the Information Society // Information Society: research and analytical journal, #4, 2002, pp. 21-24.

Third version of the Russia Development Gatewayis available: material, published on webplanet.ru, is based on the presentation of the 2002 Conference of the Russian e-Development Partnership (Moscow, 10 December 2003). In Russian.

PRIOR Newsletter. - October 2002.

Interview with Tatiana Ershova, Head of PRIOR Directorate, member of PRIOR Supervisory and Coordinating Boards: PRIOR: Initiative to Enhance Information Society and Knowledge Economy Development // B2B: analytical journal on corporate and government e-Commerce systems, October 2002, p. 35-40. In Russian.

Interview with Yuri Hohlov, Chairman of PRIOR Expert Council, member of PRIOR Supervisory Board, Chairman of the Board of the Institute of the Information Society, member of Jury of the international competition "Stockholm Challenge" // US web journal "International Government Navigator", October 2002. In English.

PRIOR Newsletter. - September 2002.

Tatiana Ershova. Economic Growth without Perspective: Politicians' Inability to Focus on Information Society Development Deprives the Country of a Break-Through Strategy // Nezavisimaya Gazeta (The Independent Newspaper), 27 September 2002, p. 10 (rubric "Internet"). Online version in Russian.

Ministry of Economic Development has Rejected over 160 Projects // IT-daily, 24 September 2002. The material states that among the best projects offering standard solutions, which were selected by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade as a result of the "regional" competition within eRussia Program in 2002, there was a network of regional development gateways with pilot segments in Kaliningrad region, Novgorod region, Perm region, Tula region, St. Petersburg, Khanty-Mansi autonomous area, Chelyabinsk region. In Russian.

PRIOR Newsletter. - August 2002.

Meet the Champions: Development Gateway Interview with Tatiana Ershova on Russia Development Gateway. 17 August 2002. In English.

PRIOR Newsletter. - July 2002.

PRIOR Newsletter. - June 2002.

Andrei Korotkov offered exchange of links to Rambler // CLICKZ.ru: Web advertisement daily, 20.06.2002. In Russian.

M.A. Bunchuk. Development Gateway Foundation for e-Development // Information Society: research and analytical journal, # 1, 2002, p. 27-28. In Russian.

T.V. Ershova. Russian e-Development Partnership and support for e-Development in Russian regions // Information Society: research and analytical journal, # 1, 2002, p. 25-26. In Russian.

PRIOR Newsletter. - May 2002.

N. Borisov, A. Chugunov. Partnership for Development // iBusiness Journal, # 4-5 (May 2002), pp. 48-49. In Russian.

The world has entered the era of information civilization. What about you?: Four-page full-color section devoted to DG Program, Russia e-Development partnership (PRIOR) and its key project - Russia Development Gateway // Tulsky Inzhener (Tula Engineer) Journal, # 2, 25 May 2002. In Russian.

Tatiana Ershova. Hope for Russia: the epoch of information policy begins // 4-re Storony (4 Sides), (link to the article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta of 24 May 2002). In Russian.

Tatiana Ershova. Hope for Russia: the epoch of information policy begins // Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Independent), 24 May 2002, p. 11 (rubric "Internet"). Online version in Russian.

N. Borisov, A. Chugunov. The Partnership for Information Society Development in the North-West of Russia and the Adoption of e-Government Technologies at the Municipal Level: Brochure published for the First Russian National Forum of the Leading Cities in Strategic Planning "Strategic Planning in Russian Cities: Real Results" organized by the Leontief Centre: International Centre for Social and Economic Research and the Eurasia Foundation (St. Petersburg, April 18-19, 2002). - Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg State University, Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Professional Education of the, 2002. - 15 p. In Russian.

e-Development Partnership in the North-West of Russia was established on 31 January in Saint Petersburg // We Are Citizens, 08.02.2002. In Russian.

Launch of the Russia Development Gateway // CNews.ru - 27 July 2001. In Russian.

James Wolfenson: "Russia is not an outsider on the world Internet field" // Strana.RU, 14 July 2001. President of the World Bank, being in Russia, answered questions of Internet users during the Internet conference, dedicated to the global Development Gateway and its Russian partner - Russia Development Gateway. In Russian.

Radar on RuDG: information about the press-conference, dedicated to the presentation of a new version of the Russia Development Gateway, which took place on 23 May, 2001 // Internet-Radar on Radio-Mayak. In Russian.

Ershova T.V. Information Society and Russia's Development // Information Resources of Russia, No. 3(58), 2001. In Russian.

T.V. Ershova. Information Society and Russia's Future // Information Society: research and analytical journal, # 2, 2001, p. 42-44. Based on the author's talk to the All-Russian Conference ''Future of Russia - Creation of the Information Society of the 21st Century'', 20 March 2001. In Russian.

T. Ershova. Information Society and Russia's Future: talk to the All-Russian Conference ''Future of Russia - Creation of the Information Society of the 21st Century'' (20 March 2001, Moscow, the Kremlin Congress Hall). Shorthand notes. In Russian.

T.V. Ershova. Russia Development Gateway: activity within the Development Gateway Program // Information Society: research and analytical journal, # 1, 2001, p. 63-65. In Russian.

A remarkable event will take place on 30 July 2001 - launch of the global Development Gateway // iBusiness: Time of New Economy. In Russian.

Sam Vanderlip. Project Harmony Inc. and Internet Development in Russia. Russia Development Gateway: financing and stages. Project Harmony Inc. looks into cooperation with Rudg // Internet for ALL! # 3 (39), 1 June 2001. In Russian.

The World Bank comes down with money for Runet // Gazeta.ru - 27 May 2001. In Russian.

Roman Dorokhov, Alexander Levinsky. The transformer country. Russia will need 9 years and 250 million dollars to become an e-Power. Center for Strategic Studies, 24 May 2001. In Russian.

Russia Development Gateway - a gateway to the Information Age // Business Club, 15 March 2001. In Russian.

Development Gateway Program // BYTE Russia: Algorythm press room. Internet Providers Union, 11 March 2001. In Russian.

Russia joined the Development Gateway Program of the World Bank // Onlybest.ru, 7 March 2001. Iin Russian.

Russia joined the Development Gateway Program of the World Bank // CNews.ru, 6 March 2001. In Russian.

Russia joined the Development Gateway Program of the World Bank // RosBusinessConsulting Information. In Russian.

The World Bank declared the creation of the Russia Development Gateway // Business Online, 23 February 2001. In Russian.