One of the essential factors for accelerating the process of global information society formation is the economic development. On the one hand, poor economic development, namely the scare of financial resources, impedes the process of informatization. Needless to say, that the informatization is the organizational social-economic and scientific-technical process of creation of optimal conditions for ensuring corresponding rights and meeting the needs of citizens, state power bodies, municipal organizations and all forms of entities and organizations notwithstanding their legal institutional framework or types of ownership by formation, providing and using information resources.
On the other hand, it is complicated to achieve the desired progress while there is no induced economic interest among the members of the society. Bearing this in mind, governments in the process of maintaining the information society provide favorable conditions for securing economic rights. As a result, such kind of initiatives brought to the limelight such definitions as following: "digital economy", "information economy", "electronic commerce”, etc. The set of initiatives undertaken at the international and national levels creates the optimal environment for overcoming digital inequality and ensuring the economic rights in the global information society. In this article, the above-mentioned issues are considered from legal and economic perspectives.
Behind the Scenes of the Global Information Society: Libraries and Big-time Politics
