On February 14, 2013, Meeting of "Information and Telecommunication Technologies" Branch of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences took place in Moscow, Ostozhenka street, 28 (LLC «Icominvest»).

The meeting was devoted to the following issues:

•          The report on work of ITT Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 2012.

•          The approval of the work plan of ITT Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for 2013.

•          Creation of M2M working group and the accession of ITT Russian Academy of Natural Sciences to M2M Association.

•          The report of Head of RG12 "Creation of a national telemedical network"

•          Payment of membership dues for 2013.

Chairman of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Dr. Valery Tikhvinskiy made a speech with the report on office activity for 2012. The report on activity of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for 2013 was approved by all members. It included the following main activities:

•          Research activity;

•          Organization of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences national conferences;

•          Organization of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences international conferences abroad;

•          Scientific and pedagogical, expert activity;

•          Participation in activity of the International organizations of communication;

•          Participation in national and international conferences.

«Information and Telecommunications Technologies» Branch of RAEN has planned participation in the year 2013 in activity of international communication organizations in the following meetings:

•          «The 61st ETSI General Assembly» (on 19-20 April 2013, Mondelye, France);

•          «LTE World Summit» (on 24-26 June 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands);

•          «The 26th ETSI Technical Committee M2M» (Technology of Machine-to-Machine communication) (25-28 June 2013, Sofia-Antipolis, France);

•          «The 27th ETSI Technical Committee M2M» (Technology of Machine-to-Machine communication) (15-18 September 2013, Sofia-Antipolis, France);

•          «4G World Congress» (on 27-30 October 2013, Dallas, USA);

•          «The 62nd ETSI General Assembly» (on 24-25 November 2013 Mondelye, France).

The report of the chairman of "Information and telecommunication technologies" Branch of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Valeriy Tikhvinskiy about the work of 2012 and the plan of work for 2013 are available on demand. The concise text of the report can be found on the RAEN ITT web-site (www.raenitt.ru) in “Publications” section.