Features of information technologies influence on social development

DOI

10.2991/ictppfms-18.2018.13How to use a DOI?

Keywords

information and communication technologies, information diversity, consequences of the digital revolution, the digital divide, e-Government, online finance, electronic Commerce, informational monopolism, online consumerism

Abstract

the article describes a dual impact of digital revolution on various spheres of human activity and social relations, such as administration, education, science, health, ecology, finance, and trade, and income differentiation, monopolization of the markets, "consumerism" and creative abilities of human development. The work presents the advantages and disadvantages of information revolution implications. Production relations in the single information space (based on cloud technology, Big Data, information openness, and social networks) are opposed to the deepened digital divide. New opportunities for the development of education, science, health, and environmental sustainability are opposed to innovation inequality and deepened environmental imbalance. Information technologies helped improving the efficiency of the activities in the financial sector, but the gap between the financial and the real sectors of the economy increased. The level of organization rose significantly due to the continuity of decision-making and communications, while at the same time the introduction of information technologies increased the bureaucracy. Stiff competition of information companies is combined with the risk of global monopoly. On the one hand, the information revolution gave broad opportunities for developing creative activities; while on the other hand, it has led to the loss of Internet users’ social mobility

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Shcherbakova Ludmila
AU  - Zobova Ludmila
AU  - Evdokimova Elena
AU  - Savintseva Svetlana
PY  - 2018/09
DA  - 2018/09
TI  - Features of information technologies influence on social development
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Personality Formation in Modern Society (ICTPPFMS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/ictppfms-18.2018.13
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