Belarus ahead of Russia, Kazakhstan in ICT development index

        Belarus is ahead of Russia and Kazakhstan as far as the information and communication technologies development index is concerned, BelTA quotes the press service of the Belarusian Information Technologies and Communications Ministry told.
       The International Telecommunication Union has released an annual report titled as Measuring the Information Society. In accordance with the information and communication technologies development report Belarus is ahead of Russia and Kazakhstan and occupies the 38th position, said the press service. Russia is 42nd position and Kazakhstan ranks 53rd. The press service stressed that Belarus’ successful advancement of information and communication technologies has been praised by ITU experts for years. Judging by results achieved in 2013 Belarus has been noted as one of the world’s nine economies with the largest changes in ICT access, which reflects the technical level of development of the modern infrastructure in the country.