Name	Department №17
	Phone:	(994 12) 5390167
	E-mail:	depart17@iit.science.az
	Head of structural unit:	Rasim Mahammad oglu Alguliyev Doctor of Technical       Sciences, Correspondent member of ANAS
	Total number of employees:	12
	Main area of activity of the structural unit:	Scientific and theoretical problems of the information society; Internet study; Internet regulation; E-government; Information Economy; Information warfare; Social networks; New media.
	Main scientific achievements of the structural unit:	The methods and algorithms were developed for web usage mining on the basis of log files; The methods of spam fighting were developed; The problems of legal regulation of the Internet were studied, and appropriate proposals were worked out; The basic principles of e-government establishment and its efficient management were studied and analyzed comparatively; The methods of content analysis of GIS technology and information space were proposed as a feedback mechanism of e-government management; The methods and algorithms were developed for the analysis of information warfare technologies in Wiki-space; The method and algorithm was developed for the detection of latent social networks in Wiki-space; The method and algorithm was developed for the efficient application of multimedia resources in information confrontation; The method and algorithm was developed to define the suitability of the content for the information impact collected in Wiki-space; Internet addiction issues were studied, and the methods were developed against them; The prospects and problems of the Internet of Things were studied, and appropriate recommendations were drafted out; Market economy transformations in the Information so-ciety were analyzed, some results were obtained; The proposals were drafted out for the protection of Intelligence property rights on the Internet; Internet- media formation was studied, and some proposals were worked out; Philosophical, social, psychological, political, economic, cultural, and ethical aspects of the Internet were analyzed, and some results were obtained; The course on the “Fundamentals of Information Society” was organized in Azerbaijan for the first time, and taught for Baku State University Journalism faculty students in 2008-2012 as a pilot project.