We offer our readers an edition of the journal,  that continues cooperation with the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, started in 2014. This time we present the work of the researchers from Institute of Humanities, Social Sciences and Technologies of Tomsk Polytechnic University and the Institute of Cybernetics of TPU.

An article of Elena Frolova, Marina Ryzhkova, Elmira Kashapova, in which interconnection of information competence of population and well-being level has been discovered, starts the issue of the journal. Galina Barysheva and Artem Dibrov analyze the phenomenon of innovation resistance, relatively new to the national scientific discourse. Importance of overcoming innovation resistance as a driver of socio-economic well-being of the society is emphasized.

Anna Kartashova and Tatiana Shirko try to substantiate interdisciplinarity, polydisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as research principles of the science of future.

Under the heading "Information Society Technologies" two articles are presented, each of them demonstrates the new opportunities that arise due to the improvement of information technology.

The article of Stepan Nebaba, Alena Zakharova and Sergey Andreev offer a new algorithm of generating 3D face model . This algorithm can find a variety of practical applications. Vadim Pogrebnoy proposes the model of urban transport system, which is of  practical interest.

Jasmine Godemann,  Professor of Communication and Consultation in the field of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences from Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany), studies the role young people play in implementing the sustainable development trends. Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University Elena Fell and Natalia Lukyanova comment this article.