Digital Path to Sociopolis

The formation of new world competitive socioeconomic structures in Ukraine was the subject of a conference held February 22 as part of the EnterEX 2002 international exhibition of information technologies. According to conference participants, including representatives of the Kyiv City State Administration, National Bank, Soft Ratih Research Center, Kvazar-Micro Corporation, and others, this goal can only be achieved by simultaneously applying advanced, especially information and communication, technologies in all spheres of the sociopolis. Opening the conference, Yevhen Marchuk, National Security and Defense Council secretary and author of the sociopolis idea, said that it is most realistic to implement such technologies on the territory of such sociopolises as microregions, where one type of society comprehensively gives way to another more perfect one, because “this kind of implementation does not require heavy expense in a small territory.” Among the benefits, which society and the state could derive from the application of new information technologies, the NSDC secretary named electronic management, the system of electronic money, electronic payments, distance learning, etc.