Informatization

Abstract: As the core driving force of the new round of informatization development and industrial revolution, the disruptive achievements of artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly and comprehensively infi...

Abstract: Agricultural information technology (AIT) has been broadly applied to every aspect of agriculture and has become the most effective means & tools for enhancing agricultural productivity and for making use of full agricultural resources. As an important sub-technology of AIT, the using of technology of Agriculture Information Management directly affects the degree of agricultural informatization and efficiency of agricultural production's decision. In this paper, on the basis of introducing the concept of agricultural information management and analyzing the features of Agricultural data, the designing method and architecture of Intelligent Agriculture MIS was discussed in detail, finally, this paper gives an implementation example of system in agricultural production.

Abstract: The paper examines the consequences of the "informatization" of society, a term originated in France which describes what is happening to some of our key concepts and conceptions as the convergence of computers and telecommunications makes information the dominant resource in post–industrial society. The inherent characteristics of information provide some clues as to what that portends for the future. Information is expandable, is not resource–hungry, is substitutable, transportable, diffusive and can be shared. We will make trouble for ourselves by carrying over into our thinking about information, concepts developed for the management of things (property, depletion, depreciation, monopoly, unfairnesses in distribution, geopolitics, the class struggle and top–down leadership). Because we can no longer rely on old assumptions, the new information environment is likely to modify our inherited thinking about rule, power, and authority. In the past the inherent characteristics of physical resources made possible the development of hierarchies of power based on control, hierarchies of influence based on secrecy, hierarchies of class based on ownership, of privilege based on early access to valuable resources and of politics based on geography. These five bases for discrimination and unfairness are crumbling today and will force changes in some long–standing hierarchical forms of social organization. Information technologies will be assimilated without turmoil only if scholars recognize the need to rethink their disciplines in light of the erosion of societies based on material resources and industrial production, if citizens get used to the responsibility that goes with the influence and power almost casually available to them through access to information, and if generalist leaders are able to rethink the nature of leadership.