Head of Directorate – Andrey S. Mendkovich

Technical Director – Konstantin S. Ershov

Head of information systems division – Sergey I. Akimov

Engineer-Programmer - Janat A. Roshanova

Manager – Marina V. Smyslova

Manager – Irina S. Miroshnichenko

The Directorate of ICT Use and Development completes the following lines of activity:

• Exploring the socio-economic, political and technology aspects of information society and knowledge economy origination and development
• Disseminating knowledge about the information society potential, its opportunities and threats
• Elaborating, implementing and evaluating the projects focused on using ICT for development
• Facilitating collaboration with a wide range of relevant domestic and international organizations
• Developing, testing and implementing ICT into the various spheres of human life, including the information systems projects
• Providing the information and technical support for the work of the Institute
• Consulting services on topics of ICT use in various spheres of human activity

The key projects of this Directorate to date include the following:

• Developing the systems-based project for the Moscow Citywide information system – 1997-1998 (management)
• Infocity Moscow Project – 1998 (initiating) 2003-2006 (participating in implementation as part of E-Moscow program)
• Network Integration of Electronic Information Resources of the Leading Russian Libraries and Information Centers (LibWeb Project) 1998-2003 (management)
• Creating the legal information system: Database of Court Files for Russian Defense Lawyers and Human Rights Activists – 1999 (participation)
• Participating in developing the strategic approach to increasing the effectiveness of information sharing and communication between the state and the society (e-government concept) – 2001 (participation)
• Developing the strategic approach to increasing the effectiveness of information sharing and communication between the state and the society (e-government concept) – 2001 (participation)
• Developing the Systems Project Metasystem "e-Moscow 2003-2007" – 2001-2002 (participation)
• Creating the Network of the Russian Federation Regional Development Gateways as part of the program event "Russia Development Gateway" of the Federal Program eRussia – 2002 (participation)
• Developing the Concept of Facilitating the International Collaboration and External Economic Relations in the ICT sphere, including the Process of Russia’s joining to the WTO – 2002 (participation)
• Implementing the “Russian Trade Policy Project” in the interest of the Russian Ministry of economic development and trade, which is focused on the economic reforms in Russia in light of the WTO ascension strategy – 2002 (participation jointly with Adam Smith Institute, Great Britain)
• Developing the systems project Metasystems “e-Moscow” – 2004 (participation)

The following events were organized by the Directorate both independently and in cooperation with its partners:

• International Conference “Information Society and the Modern City” (Moscow- Saint-Petersburg-Novgorod-Yaroslavl, September 25-26, 1998)
• International Conference “Technologies of the Information Society 98 - Russia” (Moscow- Saint-Petersburg-Novgorod-Yaroslavl, November 30-December 2, 1998)
• Russian-British Digital Libraries Workshop (Moscow - Saint-Petersburg - Novgorod - Yaroslavl, June 16-17, 1999)
• Conference “Technologies of the Information Society 99 - Russia” (Moscow- Saint-Petersburg-Novgorod-Yaroslavl, November 22-24, 1999)
• Roundtable “Population Adaptation to the New Information Technologies” (Moscow City Duma, December 23, 1999)
• Workshop "Uniform Resource Identifiers and the Library Community" (Jerusalem, August 13, 2000. 66^th Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)    
• Open Session "From Library Automation to Digital Library" (Jerusalem, August 16, 2000. 66^th Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
• All-Russia Conference “Information Society Technologies/ Internet and the Modern Society 2000- Russia” (Saint-Petersburg-Moscow-Krasnodar- Novgorod-Yaroslavl, November 20-24, 2000)
• All-Russia Conference “Information Society Technologies/ Internet and the Modern Society 2001- Russia” (Saint-Petersburg-Moscow-Voronezh-Krasnodar- Novgorod-Yaroslavl, November 20-23, 2001)
• Russian-Ukrainian Working Session on Organizing Technological Cooperation in Creating a Technological Platform "Gateway in the Box"(Kiev, October 20, 2002) 
• Seminar "Environment for Electronic Interoperability and International Standards of the Information Society" (Moscow, Sheraton Palace hotel, July 21, 2003)
• Seminar "Practice of Architectural Approach: Concepts, Standards, Terminology, Models and Implementation" (Moscow, 25 April 2005) 
• International Interdisciplinary conference “The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected: The User and the Future of the Information and Communications Technologies” (Moscow, May 23-25, 2007).