Abstract
The article focuses on studying the definitions of “information technologies” and aims to elaborate on the proposal concerning its legislative consolidation. The analysis of actual regulations in Ukraine, which determine the public relations in the sphere of information, as well as the state of research on this problem by other scholars, have shown the following: (1) currently, there is no unambiguous interpretation of this definition at the legislative level, which creates the preconditions for ambiguous interpretation and practical application of this concept in the legal field; (2) for several reasons, there exists a noticeable lack of a unanimous approach to unifying the definitions of “information resources.” This study offers to rely on an approach according to which the definition of “information resources” is considered in the context of a particular area of social activities. Based on this approach, it is offered to amend the basic normative legal document that defines public relations in the information sphere in Ukraine, i.e., the Law of Ukraine “On Information,” as well as the main legal instrument that regulates information activities in the National Police of Ukraine, that is the Law of Ukraine “On the National Police.”
Highlights
Based on the definitions provided in the explanatory dictionary, the term “resource” originates from the French ressourse, denoting suchMykhailo Mykievych, Sviatoslav Senyk, Oksana Krayevska ŚSP 2 ’21 aids as cash, valuables, certain supplies, opportunities, sources of income, etc. (Mastyanytsia, 2006, p. 28)
It is recommended to indicate in Article 1 (Definition of terms) the following: information resources represent information, information technologies, knowledge bases, etc., the specification of which is determined by regulations governing information relations in a particular field
Considering the mentioned aspects, we suggest interpreting the notion of “information resources” in the sector of the National Police in the following way: “information resources of the National Police refer to individual documents and their arrays, the results of intellectual, creative, managerial, information and analytical activities of staff, banks and databases, information and telecommunications systems as well as technologies, archives and other funds that contain data, recorded on appropriate information media, and which are regarded as the objects of property rights of the National Police of Ukraine, having the proper consumer value.”
Summary
Based on the definitions provided in the explanatory dictionary, the term “resource” originates from the French ressourse, denoting such. This document states that “information resources of the IPNP system refer to the information, generated in the process of police operations and used for the formation of the following: temporary data sets, created in the process of the police operation and used to fill and maintain up-to-date databases, or (banks) of data, integrated into the UIS MIA [Unified information system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs] and defined by Article 26 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On the National Police;’ databases in the field of management relations, necessary for the execution of the duties, assigned to the police; databases needed to ensure the daily activities of the police in the field of labor relations, financial support and document management” (On the adoption of the Regulation on the Information and Telecommunication System “Information Portal of the National Police of Ukraine”, 2017) Even though such definition is, from our perspective, quite limiting and does not include a range of other important components of information resources that have been elicited, among them – information systems, technologies, etc., and needs further enhancement, it can be still considered sufficient for the normative formulation, given the formation and use of information data by a separate, departmental integrated information and telecommunications system. Due to the limited size of our publication, the part of the article explores the definition of “information resources” given the activities of the National Police of Ukraine and proposes its interpretation to amend the Law of Ukraine “On the National Police.”
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