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The official presentation of the new book by Kostas Kataras "The Global Village Information Poor - Greece facing the Challenge of the Information Society", was made by Mr J.Roukens (European Commission) and Dr G.Doukidis (Professor of Economic and Business University of Athens) at the National Research Foundation on Thursday, 29th of October 1998.
Inside the book, the author makes specific suggestions for countries like Greece, that want to participate with equal terms in the Information Society. Among these suggestions, a killer application is included, which is expected to rise a lot of reaction and trigger considerable pondering: Zero contact between citizens and public administration, in three years time from now.
An idea and a book that is expected to cause turbulence at such a time that the 3rd Community Support Framework is "ante portas".
The book also refers to a series of other issues of high interest to modern people, like:
How does the Information Society signals the swift from mass to individual. Why does the road towards economic growth have to pass through the Information Society. What is the danger of excluding social groups or countries from the Information Society.
The author says particularly: "Modern technology and the Information Highways lead today straight to the Global Village. Economy is dematerialising and becomes digital. The countries that lack a vision of the Information Society, fail to understand the digital era, condemning thus most of their citizens to information poverty. In this way, they create the new information poor of the knowledge-based economy. This is the beginning of the creation of a two-thirds society, of permanent poverty and finally of economic, political and cultural enslavement".
Kostas Kataras, CEO of the strategy consulting firm Strategic International SA, is a reknown analyst of strategic issues concerning Telecoms, IT, Internet and Digital Economy, as well as an expert to the European Commission.
(Information: Tel: +30-1-7229571, Fax: +30-1-7224531, e-mail: stratgc@otenet.gr) |
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