Socio-political development of countries in information society. Countries of the EU

Nataliia Gavkalova,Alina Zilinska,Yuliia Lola,Svitlana Prokopovych,S Semerikov,A Striuk,V Osadchyi,H Danylchuk,P Nechypurenko,T Vakaliuk,O Bondarenko,S Chukharev,V Solovieva,S Sakhno

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202016613015

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https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202016613015

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Many studies are devoted to the peculiarities of building the information society in the modern world and the problems of uneven development of information and communication technologies in developed and developing countries. This paper examines the influence of the information and communication technologies development on the social and political activities of modern society. The correlation and regression analysis has been used to identify the relationship between the Information and Communication Technology Development Index (ICT), the Human Development Index (HDI) and the Democracy Index (DI). The results demonstrate that there is a close link between the countries’ sociopolitical attractiveness and the level of their information and communication development. However, it is not equal for different countries, which are grouped by the level of ICT, HDI and DI. Besides, the country’s information and communication technologies level has a significant effect on the social and political development. The development of the information component immediately leads to improvement of the socio-political sphere in countries with high levels of HDI, DI and ICT. The EU countries belong to this cluster. Democracy development and ICT have the inverse relationship in the group of countries with average HDI, DI and ICT levels.

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The transition of the world society to the information society or knowledge society, the transformation of information technology into a generative force for the development of countries leads to the transformation of all spheres of human life
The study allows us to draw such conclusions: 1) the result of the correlation-regression analysis indicates that there is a strong correlation between information and communication technology (ICT) and Human Development Index (HDI) levels, and a moderate correlation between ICT and human development
The development of the information component immediately leads to the improvement of the socio-political sphere

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The transition of the world society to the information society or knowledge society, the transformation of information technology into a generative force for the development of countries leads to the transformation of all spheres of human life. Despite substantial investments in ICT in the public sector over the past decades, it has been hard to achieve consistent benefits. ICT contributes to economic, social and political changes in society. This can be done through formation of unified databases and global platforms for the exchange of knowledge and best practices in all areas of life. Global information provides equal opportunities for all countries to join the global information platform, and on the other, it contributes to the gap between countries based on using advanced technologies, reinforcing economic and social inequality. In spite of attempting to implement e-government innovations to enhance efficiency in public organizations for several decades, e-government innovation has often not met the expectations of citizens, legislatures, or the organizations [17]

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