The IIS library is filled up with a UNESCO report "Information Society Policies"
The IIS library is filled up with new significant
paper: Annual World Report 2009 "Information Society Policies". This paper has
been prepared within the framework of the Information for All Programme by
experts of the Information Society Research Institute of Budapest University of
Technology and Economics, and reflects their opinions. The paper is provided to
the IIS leaders by Mr. Dendev Badarch, Director of the UNESCO Office in Moscow.
One of the
report key themes is social differences. On the one hand, the information society eliminates several historical divides;
on the other hand, unequal distribution of ICT tools strengthens social
diversification. Some tools for eliminating the aforesaid ones, as well as cultural
differences of digital diversification are well outlined in the report. The
authors make a short overview on the regional differences of this symptom and they
highlight one solution offered by the information society – positive effects of
using broadband internet. The expansion of mobile technology might present a
similar tool with significant effect; therefore, they introduce some really
well-operating solutions from this area.
The report also
covers the key aspects of information policy in the social sphere, which
obviously vary from country to country. Among the most significant trends of technological
changes they highlighted and introduced several important technical
achievements, where the authors specially emphasized the field of e-Health.
Information
society strategies increasingly focus on e-government in present report.
Accordingly, current trends of e-government are examined here, such as the
sweep of open source code, the expansion of green IT, the falling of e-voting
and the development of blog democracy. Instead of the original technological
approach, e-government concepts are now socially oriented, which is perceived
as a meta-trend.