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.
Minsk City Executive Committee Electronic office has started to function recently. Through Minsk City Executive Committee website citizens can get an answer or a consultation, make a proposal or state their opinion.
According to TeleGeography Telekom Austria Group yesterday announced that its Belarusian mobile subsidiary Mobile Digital Communications (Velcom) has been granted a countrywide UMTS license for a purchase price of EUR9.5 million (USD13.2 million).