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Internet in Belarus: Some Facts

Internet in Belarus: Some Facts. Mikhail Doroshevich http://www.e-belarus.org. 1. Penetration 2. Infrastructure 3. Cost main internet services 4. Internet Users 5. Domain .BY 6. E-Government 7. Content 8. Political parties 9. NGO 10. Conclusions. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts.

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Internet in Belarus: Some Facts

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  1. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts Mikhail Doroshevich http://www.e-belarus.org

  2. 1. Penetration 2. Infrastructure 3. Cost main internet services 4. Internet Users 5. Domain .BY 6. E-Government 7. Content 8. Political parties 9. NGO 10. Conclusions Internet in Belarus: Some Facts

  3. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts mobile internet

  4. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts Infrastructure: 36 providers: 18 xDSL, 31 dial-up, 2 cable services

  5. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts Cost main internet services: Dial-up 20 hours per week 7.4 USD Dial-up 30 hours per week 15 USD Dial-up 40 hours per week 20 USD Unmetered access 60 USD/mo ADSL (500 MB traffic) 26 USD/mo ADSL/IDSL (600 MB traffic) 50 USD/mo ADSL (1 GB traffic) 100 USD/mo Broadband (1 GB traffic) 50 USD/mo

  6. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts Internet Users: 60% - Minsk, 20% - regional cities

  7. Domain .BY Registrator: http://www.tld.by Cost of registration, one time - 50 USD Cost of technical support for one year - 50 USD. Small zone: 3.500 records (For example: .ru – 368.000, .de – 6.000.000) No whois services. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts

  8. E-Government only 74 (8,2 percent) of 903 analyzed national, regional and district government bodies are represented online. At the same time 73,2 percent of national government institutions (41 from 56), 11 percent of regional (8 from 72) and 3 percent of district (25 from 775) government bodies have their websites. Among the 74 reviewed web-sites 41 (55,4percent) represent national, 8 (10 percent) – regional and 25 (33,8 percent) –district governing bodies. 22 percent of all websites are not updated. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts

  9. General eGov Profile Internet in Belarus: Some Facts

  10. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts Content: Search Engines: TUT.BY, all.by Rating systems: Akavita.BY, all.by Catalogues: all.by, catalog.tut.by, akavita News Portal: http://www.news.by http://www.tut.by http://www.naviny.by http://www.bdg.by http://www.svaboda.org Communities: http://www.onliner.by http://forum.delta.by

  11. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts Polictical parties: 199 parliamentary candidates (49,8% of 400 registered by October 4, 2004) had their web-sites or web-pages. Politparty site Number of candidates presented Web-Sites, specially to elections 5 5+ site 116 Belarusian Parliament 61 United Civil Party Web-site 8 Lev Sapega Foundation branch 8 Others 11

  12. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts NGOs as well as political parties seem to lag behind the official structures in using the Internet: the NGOs are almost three times less likely to rely on the Internet. The major reason behind this relatively limited Internet activities by the CSOs seems: besides the lack of resources, also a lower awareness of the Internet’s potential, and, perhaps as a result of it, endemic “online-practices illiteracy”, despite clear benefits that the Internet can offer

  13. Internet in Belarus: Some Facts • Conclusions: • Undeveloped infrastructure; • Few websites with providing useful information; • eGovernment - interactivity lacking; • - CSOs are not aware of Internet democratic potential.

  14. Thank You!

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