خصائص تميز مجتمع المعرفة و شموله لمجتمع المعلومات و سياساته : مدى توافق السياسة المعلوماتية الصينية للمجتمع المعرفي المصري و العربي

Abstract EN

Knowledge is the pillar of nations' development as it is considered the real societal source of power.

Therefore, our present era is called the era of knowledge.

The wealth of knowledge has become economically vital for developing many different facets of life.

Accordingly, as for each era resides its own wealth, knowledge is considered the wealth of the current era.

The information societies are converting gradually into knowledge societies because there is a relationship between economy and knowledge.

Economy is no longer depends only on information for development, but also depends on experiences and innovations that based on knowledge.

Consequently, there is a strong desire among many countries to shift towards becoming knowledge societies, including developing countries.

The knowledge society is a broader than the information society.

Thus, the information production policy is considered the basic foundation that needed to build a knowledge society because information strengthen the cognitive activities to be the most influential factors in the advanced production systems.

This shift has been mistakenly called (the era of the information revolution).

This term is mistaken because information is only a part of the knowledge revolution, which is based on the progress of science and technology.

As the progress in knowledge became the most accurate method to judge the development in societies, which relies adequately on the progress of the various institutions involved in knowledge, including scientific research institutions, educational institutions and information in various patterns, and involved in the production of information, which has become one of the most prominent elements of knowledge and society's economy, as suggested by the experienced countries such as China, Japan, India, Singapore, Malaysia and Korea, who were able to catch up by implementing foreign knowledge as foundation for their societal development, this research found imperative to introduce the following concepts:  Information policy, objectives and values that needed to be achieved .

 Information society and Information societal sectors.

• The characteristics of knowledge societies, shifting factors, and their differences with information societies  knowledge society's requirements and formational stages.

 Information policy of the Chinese development as strategic model that can be applied in Egypt and in the Arab countries (due to the similarity of the two countries in most human development obstacles such as inflation and economic problems, etc.).

• The views and the perceptions of Egyptian experts regarding the anticipating level of success when implementing the Chinese IT policy in Egypt.

• The barriers that blocking the transformation of the Egyptian society to become a knowledge society.

• The recommendations of the Arab experts regarding the requirements that needed to transform the information societies to knowledge societies in the Arab World.