OREANDA-NEWS. February 12, 2009. Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of the Information Society in Russia.
 
The first meeting of the Council was devoted to discussing an action plan to implement the Strategy for the Development of the Information Society in Russia. This Strategy was adopted in February of last year, but as the President stressed repeatedly its implementation has been delayed.

The Council was established last November in order to ensure effective cooperation between state authorities at all levels and non-governmental organisations, academic institutions and other organisations in the field of information society development in Russia.