Under the traditional heading "Leaders of the Information Society" an interview of Houlin Zhao, International Telecommunication Union Secretary-General, is represented. The discussion points are the role of the World Summit on the Information Society and the International Telecommunication Union in promoting the information and communication technologies and the value of information as a basic condition for development in the modern era.  While acknowledging global informatization trends, SMEs contribution in ICT development in national economies is emphasized. Attention is drawn to the importance of strengthening international cooperation in the development and implementation of ICT for sustainable development.

Under the topic “Social and Economic Aspects of the Information Society” the article of Maksim Yurevich and Irina Tsapenko “Prospects of Altmetrics Application in Social Sciences and Humanities” is published. Main advantages of this new approach includes capabilities to measure social effect made by the research, getting results fast, and flexibility of indicators. At the same time, altmetric criteria have such disadvantages as manipulative capability and susceptibility to “populist” authors’ messages, restricted presence of researchers in social networks. According to the authors, it is still too early to pose a question of applying altmetrics in science management, though it is expedient to use its information-related functions.

The article of Valeriy Konyavskiy, Mikhail Kuzmin, Boris Kristalniy “New Capabilities of Information Risks Insurance: 15 Years After” considers a range of problems that, according to the authors, prevent wide penetration of information risks insurance methods in Russia. The most important problem is identified, which is assessment of information technology security for legal entities and individuals. It requires significant expenses incurred by insurance companies (on expert examination of information technologies), and by customers (on complying with recommendations of insurance companies).

The article of Anna Voloshinskaya is devoted to such an interesting phenomenon as crowdsourcing, providing new opportunities to the state, business and society. In order to systematize these opportunities a new classification of crowdsourcing projects is offered. More than 20 examples from the US, Europe and Russia illustrate the basic idea of ​​the article - crowdsourcing has huge potential and requires further studying.

Under the traditional heading “The Human in the Information Society” the article of Candidate of Economic Sciences Vladimir Gribov “Clouds and More: Important Issues of Information and Library Technologies Development” is published.

Under the topic “Information Society and State Power” the article of Dmitry Chizhov “Internet-Communication of Political Parties: Typological Features and Tools” is represented. The author affirms that the Internet is not only a channel for the dissemination of information, but also a serious political mobilization tool technology.