Lex Portus (Oct 2019)
Public administration information power: the impact of global trends
Abstract
The comprehensive informatization of a society, the widespread introduction of new information technologies updated the discussions about the information power as a function of public administration in its broadest understanding. In modern conditions the information power plays the defining role in the life of a society and globalization processes. Indeed, the globalization itself is the result of the exchange of an information, the implementation of an information influence on public institutions in the most modern states. Most politically-legal institutes, the political relations, the forms of political and information impact on the public relations and public consciousness change due to the influence of the information power. In general, the information power has the wide impact on the formation of behavior of a personality and a society. The forming of the information power directly bind with formation of an information society, in which information becomes the main economic resource, and the information sector comes out on the top on rate of growth in today’s globalized world. The intellectual property becomes the main form of ownership, a human capital becomes the important; an information becomes a subject of mass consumption, the new legal bases of functioning of an information society are formed. Now, freedom of speech and information on the basis of the rule of law and the respect of human rights are the main postulates of the creation of a civil society, the statement of a real democracy. Therefore, the limits of the existence of the information power have to be agreed with the rights and the freedoms of a person. So, the right for access to information becomes one of inalienable rights of a human and a citizen. A priority task of the Ukrainian state is the ensuring the freedom of speech, the freedom of an information, the right for expression of opinion and the citizen`s position, the right for the receipt and the dissemination of the reliable information without obstacles.
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