The enigmatical Wilson’s diamond is a theory of information society and refers to a cooperation intertwining the four main actors of society as can be seen at cut diamonds. An efficient, cooperating, supporting and complementary interconnection among economy, state, civil sector and science is needed to manage a quick and succesful IT improvement of a country. IT mentor service development fits into this model, consequenly it has been displayed under a new heading for the scientific points of view as well as some analysis in addition to business, state and civil sector topics on the page http://itmentor.lap.hu. The meaning of Wilson's diamond is augmented by this example. Recent pieces of information evidence that the acclaimed Hungarian researchers of the information society find it necessary to boost this new profession and service. Representatives of science, György Csepeli, László Z. Karvalics, Szilárd Molnár, Róbert Pintér and others – point out that it is impossible without IT mentor factor to make up for the delay in creating a rapid and overall information society development in Hungary.
Written by Mátyás Gáspár – 27-01-2007
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