In 1986, an American expert on information management science called Richard O. Mason, after a long time study, puts forward 4 major ethical topics for discussion in the information age: information privacy, information accuracy, information property right and information resources access right.
We may discuss the basic characteristics of information culture from the material culture,behavioral culture,system culture and spiritual culture,and these characteris- tics are of important influence on the construction of advanced culture in information age.
It makes the transition mean except that old innovations is in whole society being to industrialization,Back industrializations even new economy or while expanding information ages,Need to change benign,appropriatly equally as" software" in ideology categories,such as thought,idea,etc. ,Could accord with the whole need of the society,coordinate the balance of each part in the social structure.
Internet is an information ages of a spoil lately, be called after newspaper,broadcast,the television three greatest medias after newly arisen"the fourth medium", this reads aloud all after May of 1998 United Nations news committee convene of the top of the annual convention use formally, having already got an extensive usage in the domestic.
Understanding the properties of information and transforming the information into products will then play a crucial role in the development of science and technology in the information age.
This paper provides a contemporary historical analysis of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI), the first systematic and comprehensive effort by African governments to bring their countries into the information age.