Институт Развития Свободы Информации
The Institute for Information Freedom Development
October 11, 2008
Annual Report 2007
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10.10.2008 News
The FSB approved its Regulations defining main rules for its activities, rights and obligations for the personnel. The Regulations also include procedures of reception, application receipt and review, as well as information access
10.10.2008 News
On October 12, the Central Election Commission will hold an experimental online e-poll for voters. Observers from countries already realizing online elections, as well as representatives of NGOs and media, will take part in the experiment
10.10.2008 News
Kazakhstan: Prime Minister Karim Masimov facilitated a meeting on e-government issues. Global indices of ICT and e-government development were studied at the event
10.10.2008 News
Igor Schegolev, Minister of Communications, speaks of information in Russia and of its quality. His opinion is that vast volumes of information will make people to learn how to select sound and reliable information
09.10.2008 News
The State Duma has approved amendments to the law on library activities. Libraries will digitize rare worn-out books. Most demanded documents helping to realize right of citizens to information access will be digitized first
09.10.2008 News
Boris Gryzlov, the State Duma Chair, believes that launch of an information portal providing data on all inspections in organizations is an anti-corruption initiative deserving particular attention
09.10.2008 News
Russia will form a joint data bank that will allow tracking life conditions for orphan children in foster families. Data belonging to tutorship and guardianship authorities of all levels should be joined and unified
09.10.2008 News
The Saratov Oblast regional informatization program for 2008-2010 enters the top seven regional target informatization programs. Its most important activity is a project of a governmental service web portal
09.10.2008 News
Novosibirsk: Registry offices against openness? While citizens are promised advantages of the E-Russia program, civil registry officials declare that confidential data leakage prevention is much more important: there is no Internet in their offices
09.10.2008 News
On October 1-2, a project for e-government evaluation was presented in Moscow. A goal of its is to develop and to test methods of rating informational development level in the subjects of Russian Federation
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The Institute for Information Freedom Development (IIFD) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that conducts research on the theoretical and practical aspects ensuring the rights of citizens and organizations to access information. Thus, its activities are aimed at investigating, identifying, and solving problems of access to socially significant information in Russia. Since 2004, the Institute has been employing a dual approach of monitoring governmental agency websites for content, and litigating on behalf of citizens against government agencies to ensure access to information guaranteed under the law. Detailed reports about the Institute’s activities can be found within the website subsection “What We Do” in the section “About Us”.

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