Exercise 19. Suggested Answers

Some people believe that there should be free access to all information. They would ask why a few people are able to have access to information that others cannot access. Possibly during a war hacking would be used by one or both sides to find out information about the enemy. Police might decide to find out if a company was involved in criminal activity. An ATM (an automated bank teller machine) could be changed to hand out free money. The most common computer crime is the theft of money. Erasing information or adding information can do this. For example, a person's personal bank record could be changed to show that they did not owe money to the bank when in fact they did. Other crimes could be: illegal money transfers, free long distance telephone calls, spying for either governments or for companies (selling high-tech secrets), students downloading essays from the Internet and hand them in to teachers as their own work.

Possible computer security rules:

ü Do not lend disks and files to others.

ü If you do borrow a disk write – protect it.

ü Choose a password that is not easy for someone to guess.

ü Don't reuse the same password elsewhere.

ü Change your password often.

ü Make back-up copies of your information if it is important.

ü Install an antivirus program on your computer.

ü Be careful of free programs on the Web.

ü Check them for viruses before you put them on your hard disk.

Exercise 22. 1g; 2d; 3h; 4a; 5b; 6c; 7.f; 8e.

Exercise 23. 1; 3.

Paradoxes of the information society

Exercise 2. Key:

1.in the knowledge society knowledge loses its value

2. collective knowledge replaces the knowledge created by the genius people

3. creating ecosystems for better business growth

4. internet changes the types of the companies

5. there has been appeared knowledge capitalism

Exercise 7. Suggested answer.

Conclusion

The information and communication technologies turned out a motive power of globalisation and stabilising factor in the international relations. The globalisation in the information society is expressed by the trend of world community towards using all available resources by the free choice of everyone to an access to those resources, minimum limited by time and space and by tolerant existence in the constructed by oneself multicultural world. The universal access to information in the information society is a precondition for greater citizens’ participation in the democratic institutions. Significant inequality appeared in management of the information resources in rich and poor countries. The information society, characterized by organized distance education and work, by developing universities networks, by transborders public networks and new kind of social relationships, gives its citizens all these possibilities with built up information and communication infrastructure. That’s why the introducing of information technologies will be determined for the fundamental politic and economic states’ relationships. Simultaneously with the developing of information infrastructure it is necessary a citizen of information society to attain large scale of proficiency in computer communication knowledge and skills. To be well versed in these skills means, capability to put into practices an access to different educational materials, curriculums, on-line libraries, encyclopedias, museums, galleries and etc. Apparent is the necessity of unified educational governmental policies in every country in order the educational sector not to stand behind the technological revolution.

For developing ″human face of Europe in the information era″, for upbringing a new communication culture of citizens, the politics of different countries should be oriented towards strategic goals as creating of flexible educational institutions and continuous technologic innovation and elaboration of the new employment forms and encouragement of citizens’ participation in the information society.

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