Professor David Farber, aт eminent specialist in the field of ICT, talks about his research and development work, which were used for the creation and development of the Internet. With a great deal of experience of working in scientific and business structures he notes a great importance for the modern politician, with an understanding of ICTs and their role in the modern world. Prof. Farber has a high estimation of the role of social networks, the complexity and particular features of regulating relations in the field of intellectual property, especially on the Internet, about the significance of information transparency. He especially highlights the need to attract young talented people and prepare them for creative work in science and ICT, taking examples from the best practices in Japan and the US.

Keywords: internet, social networks, intellectual property, information transparency, ICT, young talented people.

Based upon research into small community-based organisations, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be interpreted as a technology that emerges from complex environments of support, teaching, and community development. While the ICTs investigated are commonplace and relatively simple systems (personal computers, Internet), they are part of complex and extended systems of action, knowledge, information, and support that reach into local communities. This basket of processes and skills, oriented around social justice principles, can be conceived of as 'technologies of care', strongly influenced by the values and work activity primarily concerned with supporting people in need. Furthermore, prior research has tended to take a dystopic view about the use of technology by women, who are the major workforce in such environ­ments, but a more nuanced approach is taken her, demonstrating that while workers are competent with ICTs, they is only one element in a process which relies upon communicative and interpretive independence. This understanding of the place of ICTs in human services work has important implications for those implementing or designing ICTs, though clarifying workers' tacit understandings is a research challenge. Based on more recent research, suggestions are also made about the limitations of the study and the need to take into account other ways of articulating tacit, practical knowledge about ICT relationships through methods such as CO-MAP.

Keywords: community informatics, community organisations, ICT research, methodologies, technologies of care, women and technology.

The article considers the problem of evaluating the quality of medical electronic services. It studies a set of areas, quality indicators, methods and models which are used in various areas of activity in order to evaluate the quality of services. The article also analyses the main aspects, features and requirements presented for the implementation of electronic services in medicine. The results of the analysis and the information models created enabled a method to be developed for the evaluation of the Schedule a Doctor’s Appointment service.

Keywords: electronic service, medical services portal, quality of electronic services, quality evaluation model, regression analysis, method.

Telemedicine is being actively developed in the CIS. For its further progress, efforts must be coordinated at intergovernmental level in order to move from local programmes and systems to international programmes and systems that are more powerful and multifunctional. For this reason, a Regional Working Group on Telemedicine of the Commission for Informatization of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications has been established and a legal framework for cooperation in ICT medicine is being actively developed. A Memorandum on the Cooperation of Participating CIS Countries in the Creation of Joint National Telemedicine Consultation and Diagnostic Systems has been declared, a Model CIS Law on Telemedicine Services has been formed and an Agreement on the Cooperation of Participating CIS Countries in the Creation of Joint National Telemedicine Systems and their Further Development and Use has been concluded.

Key Words: telemedicine, legal framework, international cooperation, telemedicine development strategy, mobile telemedicine systems, compatibility of telemedicine systems.

The article examines the legal aspects of the information society security through the prism of criminal and legal science. It provides a unique alternative to resolving the gaps that have appeared/ It also substantiates and proposes amendments to the law.

Keywords: information society, security, crimes, criminal liability.

The information age came to take over the industrial age and gave a new meaning to social, economical and political relations. The three main global information technologies in the context of geo-spatial data may be classed as the Internet, satellite navigation and observations of the Earth from space. The steady increase in the number of systems for observing the Earth from space, the improvement in the quality of observations and their simplification and the reduction in the cost of using such information is contributing to its widespread implementation not only in economic processes, but also in everyday human life. Ignoring the regularity and possibilities of information globalisation in modern times is a sure path to a backward economy and the development of negative processes in the government and society.

Keywords: global information technologies, geo-information globalization, geo-social networks, objective information, civil society.