Outline

Gerhard Banse, Petr Machleidt, Christian J. Langenbach

1-5

The genesis of the project "TA — East"

Gerhard Banse

9-19

Science, democracy and technological risks

Jean-Jacques Salomon

23-35

Concepts of information society and the social function of information

Gotthard Bechmann

37-51

The way towards a knowledge society

some barriers not only for countries in transition

Lech W. Zacher

53-59

Problems of the production and application of knowledge in a societal transformation

the Czech republic's approach to knowledge society

Stanislav Provazník, Adolf Filáček, Petr Machleidt

61-74

Innovation and financial intensity of R&D in Poland as the Polish approach to the knowledge society

Ewa Okoń-Horodyńska

75-88

Russian way to information society and new understanding of information security (statement)

Dimitri V. Efremenko

89-91

Information technology and organisational change

the concept of technological practice

Gerd Schienstock

95-107

Data — information — knowledge

a trial of a technological enlightenment

Klaus Kornwachs

109-124

It-security

the forgotten dimension of modernization

Otto Ulrich

125-132

Threats of the global net-internet

the state of development and inquiry over the information society in Poland

Andrzej Kiepas

133-139

Scientific and technological progress, democracy, participation and technology assessment in Russia

Vitaly G. Gorokhov

141-151

Transformation of society and values in Slovakia

Pavel Fobel

153-160

Rationality and the use of language

technology assessment for Shaping the knowledge society

Armin Grünwald

163-177

Knowledge and value prerequisites of evaluation and decision-making (comments on major features of knowledge society)

Ladislav Tondl

179-192

Ethical norms for the selection and transfer of knowledge

Stefan Berndes

193-203