In the heading “Leaders of Information Society”, traditional for the Journal, the interview by Tatiana Ershova, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, with Demi Getschko, the Board Member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), CEO of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), is presented. The origins of the Internet in Brasil, the contributions of Brazilian government and academic institutions as well as international organizations, and the institutions of multistakeholder Internet governance in the country are discussed in this interview.

The new issue of the Journal introduces readers to the first version of Methodology of Assessment of Compliance of a Public (Municipal) Government Authority’s Activities with the Legal Acts and Regulations of the Russian Federation in the Exercise of Information and Technological Provision (Support) of Its Activities. This Methodology is the result of the activities of  the working group composed of Denis Brill, Tatiana Ershova, Vladimir Kondratyev, Sergey Moskalyov, Valentin Padzhev, Aleksey Kholodov, Yuri Hohlov, Sergey Shaposhnik. The basis of the Methodology is quantitative assessment of legal compliance, efficiency and effectiveness of budget spent by the federal authorities, regional authorities of the Russian Federation and local (municipal) governments with the creation, implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to support their activities.

There are two articles under the topic “Social and Economic Aspects of the Information Society”. Graduate student of Russian State University for the Humanities Dmitri Orlov considers unpredictable outgrowth of modern complex systems (financial markets, Internet social networks etc.) and shows that traditional tools are irrelevant to describe them whether socially or cybernetically. The article of researchers of the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service analyzes state of the information environment of the Kamchatka Region. It highlights main issues of development of the regional information environment of the Kamchatka Region and defines strategic lines of its further development.

The topic “The Human in the Information Society” is represented by three authors: Candidate of Philosophical Sciences from Omsk State Teacher’s Training University Aleksey Ilyin, Assistant professor of Chair of Informatics of the Pacific National University (Khabarovsk) Tatiana Bocharova and Senior Teacher of the Chair of Philosophy of the Kazan State Power Engineering University Zhanna Vavilova.

Yuri Akatkin, Vladimir Drozhzhinov and Valery Konyavskiyi suppose that with the system-of-systems approach in place, the process of developing system capabilities to electronically render state and municipal services and the system mechanisms will be truly optimized.

We continue to publish some chapters of the book of Peter Knight “The Internet in Brazil. Origins, Strategy, Development, and Governance”. Chapter 2 will be of a special interest to Russian readers, as it dwells in detail on the Brazilian Internet history, support system provided at the state and academic level, involvement of certain leaders and organizations aimed to connect Brazil to the Internet international network.

Oleg Manzhula, Deputy Head of Rosstat Directorate of Organization of Censuses and Total Surveys, considers choice of technical facilities designed to collect and process data at the stage of preparation to the National Population Census 2020 taking into account requirements of reliability, user-friendly experience, safety and confidentiality of information based on state-of-the-art information communications technologies.