Information Infrastructure of the Modern Society

Level: Bachelor Semestre: 1st ECTS: 3 Working Hours:  - Contact: 30 - Self-study: 78 - Total: 108 Language of Instruction: English Author of the Course:  Sergey Minkov, associated professor, Head of the Department of Information Support of Innovative Activity of the Faculty of Innovative Technologies Lecturers:  Sergey Minkov, associated professor, Head of the Department of Information Support of Innovative Activity of the Faculty of Innovative Technologies

Objectives:  - Give students the knowledge and skills to provide an effective analysis of the socio-economic activities on the basis of accounting regularities of formation and development of the information society, the general properties and characteristics of information processes; - Give a presentation on the latest developments and topical issues of information infrastructure.   Learning Outcomes: To know: - preconditions and factors of formation of the information society and the basic laws of its development; - role of information technology in the development of the information society; - problems of investments in the economy of the information society and methods to assess their effectiveness; - the organizational structure of e-government; - legal, socio-economic and organizational aspects of modern society informatization. To be able to: - evaluate and analyze different points of view on the features of the information society and the ways of its development; - explore the patterns of development and use of information and communication technologies in a particular application area; - analyze methods and informatics tools for evaluating the performance of the information society, intellectual capital, investment and economic efficiency of the implementation and use of information elements.