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Previous Fora / 2003

Speakers

Information based society and knowledge

Information Society and Knowledge

Professor Gennadi Ivanovich Savin
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Abstract

In my speech I am going to express my point of view on the following issues:

  • what does the "information society" term mean;

  • what are the principal specific features of the "information society", prospects for its
    development and threatening problems;

  • what are the roles and relations between information-knowledge-science-technology and
    culture;

  • what is the influence of information technologies on the society reformation:
    communication, information processing and use, education, public health, business, work, design,
    research, public administration, etc.;

  • what are mechanisms for regulation of safe social development and what are the roles of
    states and international community in this regulation;

  • what is the conflict between the knowledge economy and market economy.

BASIC THESIS: Due to a skyrocketing dynamics of development, growing efficiency and potential danger of technologies, reduction of space and time impact characteristics, closer interconnection of various processes in the "information society" the role of knowledge, science and culture is becoming more important, as well as principles of the national and international regulation based thereon and mechanisms for their implementation.

CONCLUSION: Since human moral values are not a subject matter of market relations the role of science, education and culture in working out the public administration principles and mechanisms is becoming more important. It is necessary to improve and expand participation of the representatives of these spheres in formation of a new society, because the level of the public consciousness becomes a determining factor in the issues of survival and development.

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