The Information Society and Development: What Kind of Relationship?

The topic of "information society" is of very high importance in the dawn of the new era. It is a highly innovative tendency which leans on information as an energy in the fullest sense of the word. As a result, a way of thinking, a life style, an immaterial economy, and a specific societal model ensued. Trendy, topical, and timely, The Information Society and Development has both an academic and a referential aspect. It addresses the theme of the information society, covering various approaches in this new field of knowledge, including: the emergence * the concept * the characteristics * the challenge * the mechanisms for taking up the challenge * joining the rank of developed countries * the principles * assimilating the logic of war in peacetime. With a special focus on the Middle East and its correlation with the world, the book also includes the referential documents issued by the World Summit on the Information Society, from two phases held in Geneva and Tunisia respectively. Additionally, it contains a trilingual glossary - in Arabic, French, and English - as well as over 2,000 terms used in current research and studies in the field of the information society.