Abstracts

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Vladimir Markovich MINKIN

Doctor of Engineering, Chief Research Fellow of Federal State Unitary Enterprise Radio Research and Development Institute, Chairman of the Information Society Workgroup of the Council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Chairman of the Telecommunication Development Advisory Group of the Development Sector of ITU (ITU-D), chairman of the ITU Cooperation Workgroup of the Commission of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications for Coordination of International Cooperation

The article discusses results of the preparatory meeting for the World High-Level Meeting on the Information Society. It demonstrates the role of ITU as the initiator facilitating such meetings, and mechanism of agreeing stakeholders’ interests while preparing the meetings.

Key words: World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS + 10, International Telecommunication Union, information society.

BALUEV Dmitriy Gennadyevich

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of Department of Applied Political Science of the Faculty of International Relations of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

KAMINCHENKO Dmitriy Igorevich

Master of Political Science, Ph.D. Student of the Faculty of International Relations of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

The article considers specific features of new mass media and the problem of their definition. The authors analyze characteristics of new mass media as a social institution and a tool of reality representation. They attempt to shape their own definition of new mass media that would be in line with their specific features.

Key words: new mass media, social institution, Internet, interactivity.

KOBLOVA Yuliya Aleksandrovna

Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Institutional Economics of Saratov Socio-Economic Institute

The article considers specific features of shaping information costs in the information network economy context. The author has identified two opposite trends: reducing costs of information access and increasing costs of choosing relevant information. It has been proven that minimizing information costs through their distribution via network results in shaping information cascades and network-type rationality.

Key words: information, information costs, information network economy, information cascade, network rationality.

NOSKO Boris Petrovich

Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Innovations in the Government of the Rostov Region

SALAMATIN Dmitriy Yurievich

PhD student of the South Russian Institute of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Abstract

A service-oriented region is a region, where authorities tend to ensure high-quality and accessible public and municipal services rendered to the citizens, and to shape favourable conditions for service sector development. The main element of the service-oriented region is a system designed to provide public and municipal services based on multi-functional centers. To assess, whether regional authorities efficiently work towards shaping the service-oriented region, the service-oriented region index, a comprehensive integrated indicator, may be used.

Key words: service, multi-functional center of public and municipal services, service-oriented region.

NAZAROV Mikhail Mikhaylovich

Head of Department of Marketing Communications, Professor of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”

KOVALEV Pavel Alekseevich

Candidate of Sociological Science, Leading Expert of Video International Analytical Center, Moscow

Purpose of the article is to assess perspectives of using television and the Internet in the Russian information environment. The authors apply forecast extrapolation method that allows considering specific features of using communication tools in the “advanced” information infrastructure markets as a benchmark for Russia. Empiric foundation of the work is made up of comparative cross-country research of media consumption for the last five years. The authors justify the thesis that perspectives of Russian media landscape are associated with convergence and mutual complementation of television and the Internet.

Key words: information environment, media consumption, television, the Internet, media landscape fragmentation, media convergence.

GORELOV Ivan Aleksandrovich

Ph.D. student, Chair of Computer-Assisted Design of Process Equipment, Tambov State Technical University

NEMTINOV Vladimir Alekseevich

Doctor of Engineering, Professor, Head of Chair of Computer-Assisted Design of Process Equipment, Tambov State Technical University

The article considers issues of modern urban development as related with the need to take into account a multitude of diverse conditions and specific features of the territory to be developed. With vast amount of used information, development of the technology capable of information pre-processing comes to the forefront. Therefore it is proposed to create an information model of the object that would contain characteristics of its main properties and their graphical image. With such approach, a specialist can classify all information of the real object, streamline its storage on the digital media and ensure it is analyzed efficiently.

Key words: computer technologies, development of municipality areas, information model, urban planning, imagery, system analysis.

Deputy Head of the Department of Organization of the Census and Complete Surveys of the Federal State Statistics Service

International Practice and Trends in the Application of Modern Information and Communication Technologies in the Population Census

The article examines the international trends of application of modern ICTs in the population census on the basis of best practices in such country as Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Australia, Canada and the USA and prospects of their use in Russia.

Keywords: census of population, information and communication technologies.