According to the work plan of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC) the 4th meeting of the High  Level Working Group on the Development of the Information Society (HLWG) will take place from  November 29 to December 2, 2016 in Baku (Azerbaijan Republic). It will be held within the 22nd Azerbaijan International Exhibition and Conference on Telecommunications and Information Technologies BakuTel-2016.

The following questions will be discussed during the meeting:

• proposals elaboration on the fundamentals and implementation mechanisms in order to form the digital market of the RCC member countries (introduced at the suggestion of the Azerbaijan Republic CA);
• preparation of proposals on the de-monopolization of the software market (introduced at the suggestion of the Russian Federation CA);
• cooperation on the development of e-government, as well as development of a framework for the socially important electronic services provision in the RCC member states (introduced at the suggestion of the Russian Federation CA)
• cooperation and approaches development of RCC member countries on Internet governance issues (introduced at the suggestion of the Russian Federation CA)
• data centers interaction proposals and preparation (introduced at the suggestion of the Republic of Kazakhstan CA);
• formation and information resources usage (introduced at the suggestion of the Republic of Belarus CA);
• cooperation on the qualified specialists and scientific training personnel in the field of ICT (introduced at the suggestion of the Russian Federation AS);
• HLWG staff actualization (introduced by the RCC Executive Committee);
• the future of the Internet of things (introduced the RCC Executive Committee).

HLWG was formed at the 41st at meeting of the RCC Board in Minsk (November 2009) within the summit "Connect CIS”.  HLWG consists of RCC representatives in the rank of deputy ministers.