On May 16, 2008, a sitting of the Committee of Plenipotentiary Representatives of Member States of the International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) was held in Alexandria (ARE).

From Georgia, participants in the event were Nelly Makhviladze, Director of TECHINFORMI, Oleg Shatberashvili, President of the Georgian Federation of Information and Documentation, the Plenipotentiary Representative of Georgia in ICSTI, Raul Turmanidze, GTU Professor.

The Sitting was preceded by an international conference Science and technology innovations: national experience and international cooperation, the organizers of which were ICSTI and the Ministry of Higher Education and Science Research of ARE, other partner organizations. Conference Program and Reports.