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.
According to TeleGeography MTS Belarus yesterday launched commercial 3G/3.5G mobile services covering all regional centres of the country and 39% of the population.
An article called "Total informatisation is our goal" by the minister of communications and informatisation of Belarus Nicolai Pantelei was published in the "Belarussian "Economics" magazine (#2 for 2010).
The number of Belarusian mobile communication users had grown to 9,9 million, Belarusian Minister of Communications and Informatisation announced lately.
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