Company of information

The company of information indicates a company in which the Technologies the information play a central role. It is in general placed in the continuity of the Industrial society. The concept of Société of knowledge is sometimes preferred with that of company of information. The world Journée of the Company of information takes place every year on May 17th according to the adoption by the general meeting of the United Nations of resolution A/RES/60/252.

A new era

It is not the first time that Innovation S scientific and technological are at the origin of profound changes of the company:

Yesterday, sciences of the Dynamic , the Thermodynamic , and the electromagnetism, and their effects on the appearance of the Steam engine, by the electricity,… were accompanied by the development by the press. Today, the Relativity, the Quantum physics, and their applications in the nuclear energy, the Nanotechnology S,… are accompanied by the modes by division by the Information and the current Connaissance S which are the Informatique, the Web, and the Télécommunication S.

The parallel which one could make with other periods of the Histoire would be thus on the means of division of information and the Connaissance: the equivalent during the Lights and the 19th century would be the development of the written press, or, while going up further, during the Renaissance, the development of the Imprimerie.

The process which one observes is thus: discovered in the Science S fundamental, applications technological S, and divides Connaissance by new technical means.

The Informatique makes it possible today to digitalize the Information S and to treat them. In addition, the new means of telecommunication facilitate the exchange and the diffusion of the Connaissance. These new technologies of information and communication (NTIC) thus change deeply the life with the daily newspaper of the citizens, the operation of the Entreprise S, the State. All that involves news Représentation S mental and social. Some speak then about change of information towards the Hyper-information.

This process is analyzed by several Philosophe S and Sociologue S, within a framework which exceeds the strict framework of the company of information. Rather than of post-industrial company, it would be perhaps righter of speaking about post-modern period. The philosopher Michel Foucault employs the expression of Hypermodernité, which it associates with a change design world. The term employed by Michel Foucault to indicate the design of the world is the épistémè, which corresponds, on the level of the company, with a whole of Représentation S at the individuals (Paradigme S). Other authors speak about Hypermonde to express the radical changes born of the association of economic universalization and the Hyper-information.

Macroscopic effects of the company of information

Economic growth

A first macroeconomic effect important relates to the productivity gains and the growth related to the introduction of the TIC. Then, there is the requirement for qualified personnel able to manage the new systems. This has important implications on the formation and teaching.

The new products and services TIC can be used only if the consumers have technological Connaissance S basic minimal. The TIC also influence the scientific research and indirectly make it possible to carry out new discoveries which have a macroeconomic effect again.

It should be added that as regards TIC, supply precedes and induces often artificially; it is the case of all that relates to the multi-media aspect (TV, video with the request, GPS, music.) on the cellphones

The new processes set up thanks to the TIC have also consequences on the analysis of the value of the products and services, which one will more carry out on the life cycle.

The TIC have an impact in many other fields like the culture, health…

Social aspects, digital divide

The TIC can also be at the origin of new forms of social exclusion. One speaks about digital divide. Many political actions were installation to fight against the Digital divide, one speaks then about E-inclusion.

Policies of the company of information

In Europe

The definition and the accompaniment of the company of information were the subject of important political concerns of Europe.

In December 1999, in preparation of the Council of Lisbon, the European commission lance the initiative EEurope - a company of information for all, in order to bring the advantages of the Company of Information to all European .

The topic of the Company of information is in the middle of the ambitious objectives defined by the European Union at the time of the European Council of Lisbon March 23rd and 24th 2000 which aim at making Europe the Société of competitive knowledge more of the world from here 2010 whole while improving the Emploi and by reinforcing the Social cohesion. An Head office (DG) Company of Information is created within the European commission.

The action plan EEurope 2002 is approved at the time of the European Council of Santa Maria da Feira, June 19th and 20th 2000.

Following the European Council of Barcelona, March 15th and 16th 2002, the European commission prepared the action plan EEurope 2005 which was adopted by the European Council of Seville, June 21st and 22nd 2002. Since, there is a new action plan which was set up and which is entitled: the company of information and media with the service of the growth and '' employment

The European commission created a gate devoted to the Company of Information.

In the world

The concept of “company of information” was also developed by the G-7 whose leaders, in July 1994, showed their will to encourage the development of a world company of information. With the invitation of the European commission, a Conférence (ministerial) of the company of the information of G-7 was held the 25 and February 26th 1995.

Lately, the World summit on the company of information ( SMSI ) was organized with Geneva (Suisse) in December 2003 and a second top with Tunis (Tunisia) in November 2005. These tops brought together Heads of State, chiefs of secretariat of the specialized institutions of the the United Nations, representatives of the private sector, governmental organizations as well as media and civil society.

Some thinkers of the company of information

Manual Manors house - Peter Dahlgreen - Joel de Rosnay - Pierre Musso - Alvine Toffler - Dominique Wolton - Bernard Benhamou

Pierre Musso, in telecommunications and philosophy of the networks, the paradoxical posterity of Saint-Simon (1998), thinks that behind the technical object network hiding place a Idéologie, the Philosophie of the networks, at the origin of the policy of the company of information in the Années 1990. Since the Summit of Lisbon, more than on flows and telecommunications, one more stresses the human Connaissance S.

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