The article “Formation and development of territorial information system of the Tomsk Region” by Mikhail Sonkin, Natalia Maslova, Sergey Baidalee,  Sergey Semykin and Aleksey Pleshkov opens the item ‘’Social and Economic Aspects of the Information Society’’. The article states that successful experience in the field of formation and development of the regional information systems gained in Tomsk can be replicated in other regions of the Russian Federation.

In the article of Klim Legchakov indicators for monitoring of ERP implementation and use in Russia are examined, including their organizational, technical and financial components. Aleksey Ilyin from Omsk analyzes pseudo information essence of advertising and branding in his article.

In the item "Information Society and Power" Anna Voloshinskaya from the Institute of Applied Economic Research of the Russian Presidential Academy of analyses resources existing in Russia in terms of their impact on governmental decision-making. The conclusion is formulated that democratization is really happening, but the scope of citizens’ influence on authorities’ decision-making is extremely limited.

In the item "Education in the Information Society" the article of Diana Burimskaya from the National Research University Higher School of Economics considering advantages of compound learning: a possibility to start learning from any level, to study remotely and not restricting the forms of educational process, to ensure students’ development to enable their self-actualization through choosing their educational paths, is presented.

Finally, Elena Salitsky raises the issues of incompleteness of legislation in the area of innovations at the federal level, sets the task of analyzing experience in the rule-making in Russian regions with a view to its use in the development of federal law.