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Countries across the world are pushing their frontiers in governance in the move to information economy, and governments play a pivotal role in this transformation. These governments employ modern information and communication technologies to serve the citizens and businesses better. Raising the effectiveness and quality of government services is not only a matter of leading edge technologies; it also involves visionary leadership, clear objectives and sound execution mechanism. The role of Enterprise Architecture in shaping E-Government programmes cannot be overstated. Within the context of Singapore’s e-government initiative, this chapter describes the Methodology for AGency ENTerprise Architecture (MAGENTA), a rigorous, disciplined and structured methodology for development of agency enterprise architectures that enables agencies to align to and fully support the government’s transformation objectives and outcomes. Mechanisms for agencies to align to the overall Government Enterprise Architecture are detailed. The chapter concludes with a set of recommendations for future enhancements and research.

The past year 2008 became an important stage for forming the fundamentals of an information society in Russia. The Strategy of Information Society Development in Russia for the period till 2015 was adopted. Practical implementation of the Strategy is an exclusively urgent and important problem today, taking into account the global financial and economic crisis which has affected many countries of the world including Russia. Implementation of the Strategy creates new possibilities for development of a labor market and solving the employment problems, saving energy and materials, increasing labor productivity, efficiency of communications and quality of management.

At the same time large-scale informatization of society discloses many problems in the sphere of information security which were previously of secondary importance and were not considered as priority ones in the field of state and regional policy. The article is dedicated to analysis of these problems.

Our society lives at the moment of transition to an "Information Age". ICT competence becomes an integral part of success in a modern society.

The article gives an idea about implementation in the Tver Region of the innovative project "Creation of the Network of Information Centers of 170 Basic Schools of the Tver Region". The stages for organization of the structure forming a reach information educational environment in schools, ensuring the use of ICT by the participants of educational process in all aspects of school and out-of-school activity are shown. Thus the pupils, teachers and parents acquire the competences necessary for life in a modern information society.

Falsification of goods, including their unauthorized production and copying, becomes increasingly popular. Recent years saw the appearance of a whole new line of counterfeit goods - the "digital fakes", being the exact copies of goods, including branded packaging. It is difficult to qualify the existing legislation as complete enough in this respect, especially when individuals or legal entities registered in different states act as claimants and respondents under judicial claims.

The total damage from ICT falsification increases every year in the world approximately by 10%, in 2007 it reached $15 billion. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the global sales of CD and DVD decrease by 9.6% annually, whereas sales through the Internet grow by 26.8% a year, which, evidently, will result in the death of pirated products retailing, and, with the electronic commerce expansion using Internet banking, decrease the total level of pirated goods.

Development of the open software based on Linux operating system and promoting its wider usage is required for lowering the overall level of counterfeit goods.