Bilgi Toplumu ve Bilgi Teknolojisi

Terms such as "information age", "information society", "information technology", and "information superhighway" are used very often in our daily life. This is mainly due to the fact that the importance of "information" for economic and social development is continually inceasing. In this paper, we review the concepts of "information society" and "information technology", and provide some figures with regards to the amount of information technology investment that is needed to establish the national information infrastructure in Turkey. As the principal task of universities has been to create and distribute information, we then look at the role of universities in information society, and summarize some of the views on information society and "networked" society