A retrospective look at the last decade

A retrospective look at the last decade of last century, coupled with an analysis of the current state of development of the society certifies that the information society as a whole reached a so-called "point of no return" in the light of developments and processes which are irreversible. On the set of all these changes - often described as revolution - is on the one hand information, which is itself an expression of human knowledge and technological progress on the other hand that, thanks to digitization, allows processing and transmission of information in various forms, beyond constraints of space and time dimensions. In these circumstances it is not surprising that economic and social actors, society as a whole, always looking for ways to adapt to new living conditions and rules which makes all human activity. The vision of most analysts, government councils, the global economic organizations on the Information Society is relatively uniform, both within the European continent and in North America or Asia. However, nobody has the "magic formula" the outlines of a future global future that can be characterized by one fundamental truth: the information society and knowledge is a source of economic and social progress for nations to know and will know exploit the opportunities created by this type of society. Over the past two decades, major social and economic changes that we have seen have been the source of many political debates and that is because, promoting the information society in the developed countries is primarily a matter of political will. Thus, in 1991 the United States began to build recovery and growth policy around the concept of National Information Infrastructure (NII). In his speech, Senator Al Gore proposed a government initiative, national data networking, by bringing together all the research centers of excellence in IT, to ensure all citizens access to public data. You can find more details on online resources and content. You can publish online your valuable articles and share your knowledge with our online community.