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 The issue is opened with an exclusive interview with David Farber, outstanding ICT specialist, honorable professor of Heinz College and Carnegie Mellon University, in which he speaks about his research and development works that led to creation of internet and other innovations, highlights the complexity and delicacy of regulation of intellectual property rights in the internet and gives successful cases from practice of Japan and USA in attracting young talented people to the ICT sphere.
Scientist from Australia, Larry Stillman examines problems of ICT use by local community-based organizations related to support of people in need.
Co-authors from the Saratov Technical University, the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) and Bauman State Technical University Anna Lantsberg, Klaus Troitzsch and Tatiana Buldakova analyze characteristics of quality assessment of e-health services.
Two articles of the issue are devoted to the legislation in the information society. In the first article, co-authors Boris Kristalny and Mikhail Natenzon discuss the necessity of creation of unified legal framework for functioning of compatible telemedicine systems in CIS countries. The second article of a lawyer from Kazan, Ildar Begishev, is devoted to legal aspects of safety of the information society.
Vladimir Gershenzon, Director General of Engineering Technological Centre "Scanex", in his article examines influence of global technologies on the information security.
The journal contains information about UN Forum on problems of public administration, which took place in June 2011 in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and about 8th Tver Social and Economic Forum “Information Society”.
In this issue of the journal you can also read about new fifth edition of the “Index of Russian Regions E-Readiness. 2009-2010”, prepared and released by the Institute of the Information Society.
The journal contains information on two electronic editions of IIS: “Library of the Information Society”, which represents a full collection of e-versions of IIS publications released since its establishment in 1998, and "Proceedings of the 8th Tver Social and Economic Forum "Information Society" (Tver, July 8-9, 2010)".
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