Information Society, 2016, Issue 1
Keywords and Abstracts
Not to Ñatch up, but to Search for Their Own Points of Growth
TSOY Valentin Evgenyevich
The interview explores the experience of combining various state and private sector enterprises in the consortium "Union" for the implementation of the import substitution programmes in various sectors of the economy. Its focus is the problems of creating and developing domestic software products and computer technologies in cooperation with Russian research institutes and private sector companies. It highlights opportunities for the conversion of modern equipment and technologies as the basis for the creation of high-quality civilian products.
Keywords: import substitution, economic sanctions, oil and gas industry, computer technology, software.
Creating and Developing Local Information System of the Tomsk Region
Mikhail Arkadyevich SONKIN, Natalia Rudegerovna MASLOVA, Sergey Anatolyevich BAIDALEE, Sergey Vyacheslavovich SEMYKIN, Aleksey Gennadyevich PLESHKOV
Territorial information system of the Tomsk Region assumes implementation of the state policy of regional informatization in accordance with the goals of the modernization of the state and municipal government, social and economic development of the region. The top priority tasks of this policy are as follows: shaping Open Region ecosystem; enhancing availability of e-services and information on operations of state and municipal government for citizens and businesses; development of special information and IT systems that support operations of state authorities. The article claims that successful experience of creating and developing the territorial information system accumulated in the Tomsk Region may be replicated in other regions of he Russian Federation.
Keywords: automated system, geoinformation system, informational interaction, regional management, spatial data infrastructure.
ERP Implementation and Use Monitoring Indicators System Development in Russia and Abroad
Klim Evgenyevich LEGCHAKOV
In the context of the economic crisis of the late 2014 - early 2015, political sanctions, and and Russia’s focus on the import substitution, further intensive development of the country’s IT sector, in particular, ERP, has been challenged. While small business is able to make decisions to freeze deployment of information management systems, the large and medium businesses, due to their inertia force, may make such decision only after qualitative economic analysis of its consequences has been performed. Now, the question arises: what statistical indicators should underlie the analysis performed by the company that deploys ERP system? The article considers main areas of choosing ERP development monitoring indicators, including those at the federal level.
Keywords: information management system, indicators of information management systems development.
Pseudo Information Essence of Advertisement and Branding in Consumer Society
Aleksey Nikolaevich ILYIN
Significance of pseudo information impact has been greatly increased in the information society of consumerism. This impact is mostly exercised through branding and advertisement in order to shape consumer attitudes. Every offered product has symbolic information add-on that points out to its quality, and, respectively, to the status of its owner. However, this add-on and message as such can form misleading ideas of product quality. This is how pseudo information essence of representing the product is manifested.
Keywords: consumption, information, pseudo-descriptiveness, advertisement, brand.
E-Participation in Russia: a New State and Society Interaction Tool or Electronic Potemkin Village?
Anna Askoldovna VOLOSHINSKAYA
Web resources for e-participation – online votes, discussion of proposed laws, electronic applications and petitions – gain momentum in Russia. So the reasonable question arises: how efficient are they? The author analyses resources existing in Russia in terms of their impact on national decision-making. The conclusion is made that democratization is actually in progress, but the range of citizens’ influence on authorities’ decision-making is extremely limited.
Keywords: e-democracy, e-participation, e-consulting, online petitions, online voting, Russian Public Initiative.
Blended Learning in Higher Education
Diana Valentinovna BURIMSKAYA
The article considers advantages of blended learning: a possibility to start learning from any level, to study remotely and without restricting educational process forms, to ensure students’ development to enable their self-actualization through choosing their educational paths.
Keywords: e-learning, blended learning, learning English with ICTs, massive open online courses, MOOC.
Legal Regulation of State Support of Scientific and Innovative Activities in Different Regions of the Russian Federation
Elena Aleksandrovna Salitskaya
The article considers legal regulation of state support of innovative activities in constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The author raises the issues related with incompleteness of specialized legislation in the area of innovations at the federal level, offers the challenge of analyzing standard-setting experience of constituent entities of the Russian Federation in order to use it when developing the federal law. The author identifies and classifies main tools of state support of innovative activities used in constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Keywords: innovation, state support of innovative activities, regional legislation, forms and measures of state support of innovations.
