In the heading “Leaders of Information Society”, traditional for the Journal, the interview by Tatiana Ershova, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, with Hartmut GLASER, Executive Secretary of Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), is presented. Widespread Internet fundamentally changes people’s lives, and therefore there is a need to manage the development and functioning of the global network. H. Glaser argues that the main principle of this control should be “bottom up” initiatives. Such a democratic management style is somewhat more complicated to use, but pays off in the long run.

Under the heading " Fundamental Research in the field of Information Society " the article of philosopher Georgiy Smolyan about key definitions of informatization was represented.

The article of Rimma Elizarova (National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan) describes history of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan moving towards the informational society, shows how information and communication technologies affect growing complexity of library processes improving quality and efficiency of work.

Under the heading "Health in the Information Society" is the article of Elena Dyakova and Anna Trachtenberg from Ekaterinburg. Deploying medical information systems comes along with worldwide organizational resistance of healthcare employees. According to the qualitative sociological study held with support of the Russian Humanities Research Foundation grant “Transition to E-Government as the Process of Social Adaptation of Technology” the conclusion is made that the reason for organizational resistance is in collision between management requirements of maximized control and strict standards in rendering healthcare services vs. basic values of medical profession related with the need to make ethically loaded decisions in highly uncertain situations.

The article of employees of the Joint Stock Company Research and Production Enterprise “Polygon” from Ufa Tagir Yakubov, Almaz  Iskhakov and Albert Mannapov " Trusted Connections as the Foundation of Information Security of the State" is represented in our heading "Confidence and security in the information society".

And finally we complete the publication of selected chapters from the book by Peter Knight «The Internet in Brazil. Origins, Strategy, Development, and Governance». The preface, foreword and chapters 1 and 2 of Peter Knight’s book were published in Russian in Information Society 4–6 (2014). Chapters 7 and 8 are translated here. They introduce the Brazilian Internet management model, history of adopting the Internet Bill of Rights (Marco Civil da Internet – MCI) Law signed by President Dilma Rousseff during the opening ceremony of the NETmundial conference that was held in São Paulo on 23–24 April 2014 and present changes to put the Internet at the center of a national strategy to accelerate Brazilian Internet development.