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Information Technology Serving Society focuses on the potential roles of information technology in shaping society, including advances in the capabilities of computers, progress of processes in information transfer, and implementation of information technology control measures. The selection first discusses information transfer, as well as the benefits and risks of the relationship of computers and human, the need for information policy, and challenges in information technology. The book then takes a look at information policy and technology in transition. Topics include developments in infor.
Front Cover; Information Technology Serving Society ; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; GUEST SPEAKERS; PARTICIPANTS; SPECIAL OBSERVERS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER 1. INFORMATION TRANSFER IN A GIFTED AGE; Benefits and Risks in this Man-Machine World; A Multi-Dimensional Context; The Need for a National Information Policy -- The Challenge is Apparent; CHAPTER 2. INFORMATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSITION; Developments Over Time; Computers and Social Functions; Computerized Data cum Telecommunications; A Parallel Path ... Communications; A Far-flung Network.
Information as a Reproductive OrganismMeeting User Needs; Is This the Best We Can Do?; COMMENTS ON PAPERS OF:; CHAPTER 5. PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE CONGRESS; Are Better Decisions Possible?; Increasing Complexity of Congress; Information Exchange with Interest Groups; Sources of Information for Congress; New Information Services; CHAPTER 6. DECISION INFORMATION AND THE DECISION-MAKER; Making Decision Information Available; Decision Information and Decision-makers; Information Overload and Synthesis; COMMENTS ON PAPERS OF.
CHAPTER 7. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND PROTECTION: A GOVERNMENTAL DILEMMAGovernment is not a Monolith; Privacy and Information; Security and Information; Contemporary Government Information Interests; Government and the Computer; The Stigma of Surveillance; The Stigma of Information Gathering; CHAPTER 8. INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR CITIZENS: THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY; Data Banks and Computers; Video Discs; Telephone and Cable TV; Potential for Diversified Communications and Networking; Two-way Communication in the Home; Challenges of Public Policy; Service to the Community; Other Policy Opportunities.
New Models are NeededCOMMENTS ON PAPERS OF:; CHAPTER 9. LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION NEEDS: DREAMS AND REALITIES; Legislation and Information; Representation and Information; Office of the Future; Legislative Information Technology; The Budget and Information; CHAPTER 10. WHERE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS TAKING US; Greater Centralization; Greater Government Regulation; Unable to Deal with Multiple Objectives; Greater Participation; TWO SEMINARS IN PERSPECTIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVING SOCIETY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE; 1969 and 1977: Five Points of Contrast; An Unfinished Agenda.
edited by Robert Lee Chartrand, James W. Morentz.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-144) and index.
Sponsored by the American University, Intergovernmental Bureau for Informatics, Pergamon Press Ltd.
Information storage and retrieval systems
Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1979