AL2: Information Society

When I was at school we were taught that there is 3,5 factors of production. According to clasical economists three of them are - land, capital goods and labor. Extra half teachers introduced as entrepreneurship or human capital or access to information. This last half is not adjusted definitely but it reveals in many cases.

On the strength of ecomomic approach i would say that information society is a society where physical factors loss their importance while there is no access and analysis of environment conditions. That is nowadays society became more dependent on external factors and learning the current situation give rise to more and more information transitions. Soinformation society in general and in two words is a society where processing information has extremely high priority.

Also it could be interpret as follows. When we will take a look upon DIKW hierarhy, we can see that information is under "knowledge" but upon "data". Thus people accumulated enough resources, tools and methods for gathering data and its representation and storing for further use. And the amount of information is really huge but still people have no resources to process this information properly to reshape it in knowledge and to go from quantity storing to qualitative storing. (Yes. this is doubtful statement. but i'm still waiting for alternative energy source and intergalactic trips:)). So now we can look on "information society" not as to achievement but as to disproportion between creation wisdom:knowledge:information:data comparing to other societies. So in information society this disproportion is to information good.

10 things

1. Computerization is the base for future benefits.
2. While there is unskilled personal and the use of software is not optimized we face productivity paradox.
3. Good start-ups have to be promoted in opposite case they will fail due to lack of knowledge and understanding.
4. Technology alone, even good technology alone, is not sufficient to create social or economic value.
5. One key idea of social informatics research is that the "social context" of information technology development and use plays a significant role in influencing the ways that people use information and technologies, and thus influences their consequences for work, organizations, and other social relationships.
6. Conceptualization of computerization should be treatened as a combination of current social life stage and state-of-the-art technology.
7. People still tend to reject human-computer-web interaction. They need to see that it extent to human-computer-human web.
8. Not all work can be streamlined thus not all work performance might be advanced with computers.
9. Social informatics research pertains to information technology use and social change in any sort of social setting, not just organizations. E.g. expanding Internet access by households.
10. "Technological access" refers to the physical availability of suitable equipment, including computers of adequate speed and equipped with appropriate software for a given activity.
In contrast, "social access" refers to know-how, a mix of professional knowledge economic resources, and technical skills, to use technologies in ways that enhance professional practices and social life.

BL2: Questions?

Question from author: is it fair to make statements about "out society"(or generalize the entities) while being the part of western word -> treatening all world from position and achievements of more developed part of the world skiping billions of people who don't know what information/society/network means?

Question from lecture: why it should make difference for us how we name society that we live in?

Question from fellow student: Can you see the bound of human development in realm of social interaction through networks and with help of technologies? What is the end point? How it should look like? Does it exist?