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The Needs for Information Culture Index and Its Exploratory Method of Measurement

  • Informatization Policy
  • Abbr : 정보화정책
  • 2002, 9(3), pp.61-78
  • Publisher : NIA
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy

손연기 1 Myoung Jin Lee 2

1한국정보문화센터
2국민대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper evaluates existing informatization indices and proposes a new type of informatization index. First of all, the paper shows the main characteristics of the existing indices and their limits. The informatization indices were develope to measure the degree of changes in social and economic activities toward emerging information society. Yet those indices has the limits in that they focus on a part of such changes or transition. They were mainly made to measure structural aspects of information society: information infrastructure, information usage, investment, and so on. It is now a common knowledge that our whole society is entering a new stage and then this transition is fundamental. It is important to capture such fundamental changes and transition as a whole. Cultural aspects(software) as well as structural aspects (hardware) must be conjoined to build an advanced information society. For this object, we proposed a new index of measuring informatization. This index is includes not only structural change toward information society but also cultural change (e.g. information mind). We have theoretically constructed three different fields to examine the various sides of transition toward information society. Two or three sub-fields for each field are also proposed to measure to various aspects of such transition and create an overall picture of information society.

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