The issue is opened by an interview by Tatiana Ershova, Editor in Chief of the journal, with Svetlana Openysheva, Deputy Chairman of the Government of Ulyanovsk Region, Chief of Staff of the Governor and Government of the Region.  In the interview they discuss on the one hand the ratings of Russian regions’ e-readiness, and on the other hand measures providing for success in the implementation of open governmen in the Region. They note the role of blogs of heads of a region as instruments of strengthening the cooperation between representatives of government and citizens, as well as ways of increasing the level of computer literacy.

The topic of this issue, which is The Era of Constructive Transformations, is elaborated in eight new publications.

The rubric Fundamental Researches in Information Society Development  is represented by an article of Anna Sanina, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, who examines the phenomenon of state identity and its transformation in the era of society informatization.

Anton Svintsovskiy, Postgraduate Student of the Faculty of National Security of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, presents the network analysis as an efficient method of researching political processes in international relations. Alexey Ilyin, Associate Professor of the Department of Practical Psychology at Omsk State Pedagogical University, in his article “Problem of Information Consumerism” examines the phenomenon of superficial information consumption.

The rubric Information Society and Government is represented by articles of two authors – Konstantin Antipyev, Doctoral Student of the Department of Sociology of Perm National Research Polytechnic University, and Mikhail Molotkov, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Head of Support Office of Police Station No. 9 of the Krasnoyarsk Inter-Municipal Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Konstantin Antipyev examines problems of transparency of local governments as the authority, which is closest to citizens, and Mikhail Molotkov examines the specifics of functioning of law enforcement system in the course of information society development.

The rubric Culture in the Information Society is represented by two authors – Vladimir Gribov and Lyudmila Levova, who offer information technologies to libraries. Elena Novikova, Candidate of Chemical Sciences, and Alisa Klimova, Postgraduate Student of the Russian Plekhanov University of Economics, propose to use the resources of the situation room for decision-making at different levels of responsibility.

And, finally, our new author from Kyiv Dmitry Oltarzhevskiy, representative of the Institute of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, examines socio-communication phenomenon of corporate media in the context of integration of this special type of media into the World Wide Web.