Abstracts

Abstracts

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Some Key Definitions of Informatization – Category Status and Subject Domain

Georgiy L’vovich SMOLYAN

Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Chief Research Fellow, Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences

With philosophical methods employed, the article reveals content of basic definitions underlying the informatization concept: information environment, information activities, communications, and cyber space. The author offers multi-tiered functional model of the information environment resting on the interpretation of social life as cooperation of people ultimately aimed to produce and reproduce the life itself. The definitions in questions attach required energy to social and personal development raising it to a new scale.

Key words: information environment, information activities, communicative activities, cyber space, functional and integration model of the information environment.

National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan on its Way to the Information Society

Rimma Uzbekovna Elizarova

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Assistant Professor, Leading Research Fellow, National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan, Honoured Cultural Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan

The article describes history of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan moving towards the informational society, shows how information and communication technologies affect growing complexity of library processes improving quality and efficiency of work. The history is divided in periods of ICT adoption related with deploying computer technology in library processes; creating digital information resources available to remote users, and functioning as coordination and methodology center of corporate cataloguing.

Key words: National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan, information society, information and communication technologies, corporate cataloguing, digital libraries, sociological studies, information resources.

How to Click the Buttons? Healthcare Informatisation and Organizational Resistance Issue

Elena Grigoryevna DYAKOVA

Doctor of Political Sciences, Leading Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Anna Davidovna TRAKHTENBERG

Candidate of Political Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deploying medical information systems comes along with worldwide organizational resistance of healthcare employees. According to the qualitative sociological study held with support of the Russian Humanities Research Foundation grant “Transition to E-Government as the Process of Social Adaptation of Technology” (Ural No. 14–13–66016a) the conclusion is made that the reason for organizational resistance is in collision between management requirements of maximized control and strict standards in rendering healthcare services vs. basic values of medical profession related with the need to make ethically loaded decisions in highly uncertain situations.

Key words: social adaptation of technologies, medical information systems, organizational resistance, standardization, values, technology based rationality.

Trusted Connections as the Foundation of Information Security of the State

Tagir Yagudovich YAKUBOV

General Director, Joint Stock Company Research and Production Enterprise “Polygon”

Almaz Railevich ISKHAKOV

Leading Technical Research Expert, Joint Stock Company Research and Production Enterprise “Polygon”

Albert Raisovich MANNAPOV

Head of the Knowledge Assets Directorate, Joint Stock Company Research and Production Enterprise “Polygon”

The article considers immediate threats to national interests in the field of the information security. It analyzes current state and development perspectives of the Russian telecommunications equipment industry. The concept of trusted communications networks is offered. The article describes a media content analysis information system that implements the function of access monitoring for security kernel of the trusted communications network. It demonstrates experience of deploying the trusted communications network based on state multi-service data network of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Key words: trusted communications network, information security, national interests, telecommunications equipment.

Peter KNIGHT
Founding member, researcher and member of the Board of Directors, Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics, Brazil

Brazil has been a leader in developing and implementing multi-stakeholder governance of the Internet, where government, private sector, academia, civil society organizations and Internet professionals perform this function. The book examines how the Internet came to Brazil, how it has developed, how it is governed, and why its future development is strategic for achieving national goals.

The preface, foreword and chapters 1 and 2 of Peter Knight’s book were published in Russian in Information Society 4-6 (2014). Chapters 7 and 8 are translated here. They introduce the Brazilian Internet management model, history of adopting the Internet Bill of Rights (Marco Civil da Internet - MCI) Law signed by President Dilma Rousseff during the opening ceremony of the NetMundial conference that was held in Sгo Paulo on 23–24 April 2014 and present changes to put the Internet at the center of a national strategy to accelerate Brazilian Internet development.

Key words: CGI.br, domain names registration and support, Marco Civil da Internet Act, civil rights framework for the Internet, privacy of personal data, net neutrality, NETmundial.