Towards the Information Society

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Outline

   1. Outline

      • Gerhard Banse, Christian J. Langenbach, Petr Machleidt

      Pages 1-5

3. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. The Genesis of the Project “TA — East”

      • Gerhard Banse

      Pages 9-19

4. The Concept

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Science, Democracy and Technological Risks

      • Jean-Jacques Salomon

      Pages 23-35

   3. Concepts of Information Society and the Social Function of Information

      • Gotthard Bechmann

      Pages 37-51

   4. The Way Towards a Knowledge Society — Some Barriers Not Only for Countries in Transition

      • Lech W. Zacher

      Pages 53-59

   5. Problems of the Production and Application of Knowledge in a Societal Transformation. The Czech Republic’s Approach to Knowledge Society

      • Stanislav Provazník, Adolf Filáček, Petr Machleidt

      Pages 61-74

   6. Innovation and Financial Intensity of R&D in Poland as the Polish Approach to the Knowledge Society

      • Ewa Okoń-Horodyńska

      Pages 75-88

   7. Russian Way to Information Society and New Understanding of Information Security (Statement)

      • Dimitri V. Efremenko

      Pages 89-91

5. The Application Fields of TA

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Information Technology and Organisational Change. The Concept of Technological Practice

      • Gerd Schienstock

      Pages 95-107

   3. Data — Information — Knowledge. A Trial of a Technological Enlightenment

      • Klaus Kornwachs

      Pages 109-124

   4. IT-Security. The Forgotten Dimension of Modernization

      • Otto Ulrich

      Pages 125-132

   5. Threats of the Global Net-Internet. The State of Development and Inquiry over the Information Society in Poland

      • Andrzej Kiepas

      Pages 133-139

   6. Scientific and Technological Progress, Democracy, Participation and Technology Assessment in Russia

      • Vitaly G. Gorokhov

      Pages 141-151

   7. Transformation of Society and Values in Slovakia

      • Pavel Fobel

      Pages 153-160

6. The Judgement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Rationality and the Use of Language. Technology Assessment for Shaping the Knowledge Society

      • Armin Grunwald

      Pages 163-177

Information and knowledge play an increasingly important role in the implementation of public policies, in particular those of the Central and Eastern European Countries. They are involved in many respects in the elaboration of scientific programs. They are more and more present in the political decision making process and as topic for scientific conferences. They are often at the centre of international discussions on related topics, for example, differences in approaches to produce and apply knowledge or different responses to social function of information. A major lesson of these past years applies to democracy. Europeans demand more involvement in decisions that concern them. This demand goes weH beyond decision making. For public action to be acceptable and efficient, the whole process should become more democratic, from the defmition of the problems, to the implementation and the evaluation of solutions. In the context of conducting research on the consequences of scientific and technological advance, the Europäische Akademie Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in Germany and the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic organised a conference on the relationship between "democracy-participation-technology assessment" in February 1999. The objective of the workshop was to express and to the problems of transition "from exchange various viewpoints and attitudes information society to knowledge society. " The great response given to the international conference underlines the need not only for Central and Eastern European Countries to take into consideration more common projects like this for the future.

• Evaluation
• Information Technology (IT)
• Innovation
• Internet
• Organisation
• Transformation
• democracy
• information
• information society
• knowledge
• organization
• responsibility
• security
• technology
• technology assessment

• Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, ITAS, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Gerhard Banse

• Europäische Akademie GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

  Christian J. Langenbach, Dagmar Uhl

• Centre of Science, Technology, Society Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, Prague 1, Czech Republic

  Petr Machleidt

Policies and ethics