Monday, October 19, 2009

THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

In a knowledge society, knowledge forms a major component of any human activity. Economic, social, cultural, and all other human activities become dependent on a huge volume of knowledge and information.
(wikipedia.com)

A knowledge society is one that creates, shares and uses knowledge for the prosperity and well being of its people.
(www.tanedu.org)

It has to do with a society in which the conditions for generating knowledge and processing information have been substantially changed by a technological revolution focused on information processing, knowledge generation, and information technologies.”
Manuel Castells (vecam.org)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

DIFINITIONS OF INFORMATION SOCIETY

An information society is a term for a society in which the creation, distribution and manipulation of information has become the most significant economic and cultural activity.
SOURCE: whatis.techtarget.com

Information society is a Post industrial society in which information technology is transforming every aspect of cultural, political and social life based on the production and distribution of information.
SOURCE: Business Dictionary

An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political and cultural activity.
SOURCE: wikipedia.org