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Jeanne Holm
Chief Knowledge Architect NASA
Abstract
The knowledge society essentially changes the lives of people to the best: the value of public good becomes more evident. Though with appearance of new possibilities the competition becomes more global and challenging, there also appear new opportunities for social and personal choice. In the course of the development of the new society the interaction between generations changes but it is still important that all generations could use different technologies and work together. ICTs introduced a lot of new things to the life of the society: the appearance of social media, open government, open data, etc. are important. Thanks to active use of new technologies governments have become more aware of citizens’ needs. But government’s openness does not abolish the problems of national security, and the government must hold a strong position towards its sustenance.
Key words: knowledge based economics, social media, open data, open government, national safety.
Dave Funchall, Marlen Herselman, Darell van Greunen
Dave Funchall – Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Faculty of Engeneering, the Built Environment and IT, School of ICT, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Marlen Herselman - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Faculty of Engeneering, the Built Environment and IT, School of ICT, Port Elizabeth, South Africa & Meraka Institute, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa
Darell van Greunen - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Faculty of Engeneering, the Built Environment and IT, School of ICT, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Abstract: The South African Government has recognised the potential of the contribution of Small Medium Micro Enterprise’ s (SMMt's) to the overall economy of the country.
Government and the private sector have introduced agencies and operations to support the development of SMME's. Given this support, SMME's continue to face serious challenges and barriers leading to failure, for example, finance, government policy and communication, marketing, infrastructure, limited use of technology, weak business management, training and skills development. To stem the tide of failure and offer support and solutions, the challenge was to develop a maturity model (PICaMM) which could support South African SMMKs in improving their business processes and improve their overall level of maturity as a developing organization. This paper will indicate how PICaMM can be applied by SMMes to measure and improve themselves. After PICaMM was applied in two SMMEs through a mixed methodology approach results indicated that PICaMM did support these SMMes to evaluate their level of maturity regarding the management of the workforce, new ideas, products and services, knowledge, skills and training. Maturity improvement within the SММE is evaluated along a ‘step-wise’ continuum of staged levels, one to five, where, at the fifth level the enterprise will be able to align its processes and activities with its business objectives lo become more successful and competitive in gaining market share.
Key worsts: maturity models, measuring SMME’s, South Africa.
Study of motivation of external hyperlinks’ creation on universities’ web-sites: Nigeria’s experience
Anthony M. Nwohiri,
Ph.D. student at Faculty of Applied Mathematics & Control Processes
St. Petersburg State University
Andrey A. Pechnikov,
Lead researcher
Institute of Applied Mathematical Research of the Karelian Research Centre of RAS
This research work examines official web sites of Nigerian universities in order to clarify the motivations for the creation of external hyperlinks. The proposed classification of motivations is applied to more than 6300 links from over 86 Nigerian universities’ sites. The existence of several potential motivations leads authors to modification of the classification scheme towards an integration of several motivations into just one, as well as to pooling the universities into regional groups. The application of statistical methods allows to get a more distinct view of motivations of external hyperlinks’ creation on universities’ web sites, and to give a number of recommendations for developers aimed at improvement of external links’ use.
Key words: hyperlink, university web site, Nigerian universities, motivation.
Human in Information Society
Boris V. Kristalny
Candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences,
Professor,
Adviser to the Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Design Center for Semiconductor Engineering” (State Corporation “Rostechnology”)
Visiting professor, Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI), Chair of Information Society Development
Stepan V. Orlov
Cand. Sc. (Economics),
Deputy of the Moscow City Duma (Council)
Chairman of the Commission of the Moscow City Duma on Municipal Economy and Housing Policy
The article examines humanitarian aspects of the information society theory: such concepts as “human”, “human potential of information society”, aims and goals of information society development, security issues.
Key words: human, human potential, information society, constructors of information society, humanitarian goals and objectives of the information society development, security.
Interest as the Basic Incentive of Multi-rational Communication and Its Reflexive Foundations
Larisa V. Nurgaleeva
Cand. Sc. (Philosophy),
Associate Professor, National Research Tomsk State Universit, Chair of Humanitarian Problems of Informatics
The goal of the research is to develop theoretical and practical aspects of theory of interests considering specific features of ontognoseological experience of modern multimedia communications. The objectives of the research is to analyze the content of the theory of interests from the point of view of premises to explore multi-rational foundations of communication and their reflexive conditionality. The spectrum of the applicability of the research results is directed towards development of new forms of socio-cultural activities analysis, social and psychological experiments in the sphere of reflexive management, education, art, politics, economics, etc.
Key words:
interest, communications, multi-rationality, reflection.
Natalia V. Tikhomirova
Doctor of Sc. (Economics)
Professor, President, Head of Chair on Intellectual Resources Management, Moscow Institute of Economics (MESI)
Current trends and future rounds in information society development will bring about the emergence of “smart cities”. Existing in smart society and inhabited by smart people, they are no longer a futuristic fantasy but the main perspective development trend.
«Smart» personnel, «smart» cities, internet technologies, information society, digital trends, e-technologies