This article deals with the following three questions:
1. Has the availability of telecoms-related and computer-related technologies been a significant factor encouraging and enabling home-based telework?
2. Is teleworking likely to introduce major changes into the organisation of domestic life, and with what implications for all Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the home?
3. Will the introduction into the home and use of ICTs for work purposes lead to these technologies being used by household members other than the teleworker and used for purposes other than telework?
Key words: telework, types of telework, ICT in household, ICT means, working arrangement, social factors, temporal structure, spatial structure, time allocation, social relations, technical culture of households.

This paper looks into the use of mobile telephones, and, in particular, into the different strategies and logic of use of orality and writing, of calls and SMS messages by Italian adolescents. It is a qualitative research project, based on thirty non structured interviews supplied to a convenience sample of adolescents (15 males and 15 females). These interviews were gathered in Italy in 2000, period in which SMS exploded inside mobile communication. The SMS explosion especially concerned teenagers in Italy, as in many European countries. The aim of this research is to try to understand: the raisons for what teenagers decide to talk in the mobile phone or to write messages; when and in which situations they prefer talk or write;
what are the emotions, the feelings, the reactions that a mobile call causes for them in comparison with those caused by a written message;
to which extent they care of the other people, of the context in which they are when they use the mobile phone;
what are the themes, the arguments that they develop in a mobile call and what in a SMS;
the meaning of this kind of communication mobile (talked and written) in their social life.
The results of this research help us not only to enlighten the patterns of use of the mobile phone on
the behalf of adolescents, but helps also to understand two other important elements. It helps us to
understand, first of all, what is happening in the world of culture; secondly, what is happening in the
everyday life of adolescents.
In the culture world the territories of orality and writing are completely restructuring, in the sense that in this case, for example, writing has penetrated in the territory of the telephone mobile, the oral instrument par excellence. In many cases and occasions adolescents, who have recently been refractory to writing, prefer to write instead to talk. Perhaps very short messages, but written. The discovery of the charm of writing assumes new meanings in the hands of adolescents.
In the everyday life of adolescents several changes have transformed the needs and so the attitudes and behaviors of this class of age. For example, the fact that a high percentage of them have not brothers or sisters has left a communicative emptiness. Often, the mobile phone use serves to fill this emptiness.

Key words: Italian teenagers, lack of intercommunication, day-to-day communications, mobile telecommunications, oral communication, SMSs, culture of behavior, written speech, psychological independence, social life.

This interview for the magazine "Information society" is given by a pioneer of the national electronic industry, enthusiast of the information society creation. Different stages of the soviet electronic industry including microelectronics are described in his bright memoirs.
I. N. Bukreyev is telling about work if the field of creation optical computers, about establishment of a new school — optoelectronics. The reminiscences are touching on dramatic moments related to development of radio industry, production of the first soviet personal computers, and elaboration of the computer-based systems for enterprise management.
Vivid picture of the scientific and technical thought development is presented against the background of quite intricate ambience of working in academic institutions, industrial enterprises, government bodies, and tinged with personal author's impressions.
Key words: cybernetics, informatics, electronic engineering, electronic industry, computer engineering, microelectronics, development of the information society, optical computers, digital computers, personal computers.

Some online agencies quite often post reviews about the undisputable achievements made by federal, regional, and less frequently municipal authorities in Russia. Alongside this, in February 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made a striking discovery at the first meeting of the Council for Development of the Information Society when he said that the Russian e-government is a chimera. The article gives an analysis of the possible reasons behind this statement and proposes some organizational measures required to turn this chimera into a white swan taking into account the fact that two days after the President made the statement the Plan of Measures for the Execution of the Concept for Forming an Electronic Government in the Russian Federation until 2010 was approved.
Key words: electronic government, federal executive body, regional executive body, administrative regulations, the e-government infrastructure, uniform system of public and municipal services for individuals and legal entities, e-government readiness rate, information society, legal framework for electronic government, national information system.

Popov Serge] Vitalievich

Internet Topic Search: Back to the Future
The article analyses the contradiction between the commercial interests of Internet search engine owners and the level of development of topical search facilities on the World Wide Web. The lack of efficiency in the algorithmic ranking of documents found is highlighted as being one of the most important problems related to topical searches in online search systems. Internet users have to reword search requests many times to find the desired information on the first page of matches. At the same time, Internet users need support from a search engine when it comes to rewording search queries. It is proposed to return to the use of interactive topical search methods that Gerard Salton and his associates developed back in the 1970 s.
Key words: search engines, subject search; relevance ranging; relevance feedback, world wide web, query restate.

From the standpoint of system analysis the article presents the architecture of the information
environment geared towards support synthesis and knowledge storage systems.
The synthesis of knowledge is reviewed as a self-organizing process where an accident gives rise to the appearance of something new. The model of the synthesis mechanism is based on a systematic approach to
each object as a system within a system of homogeneous objects. This makes it possible, on the one hand,
to imagine it as an aggregate forming a unified whole and, on the other hand, as a classification, which in
turn allows users to clearly highlight new characteristic signs and define ways of tracking subsystems.
Consequently, the information environment, apart from the possibilities of forming and
systematizing information clusters, storing and searching for information, should have the means for
the dynamical construction and use of linguistic support components for the various levels and aspects of knowledge presentation, and also the wherewithal to assess and analyze search results as well as scientific trends.
Key words: automated information data systems; information environment, data, information, knowledge,
knowledge and information generation models, general theory of systems.