Information Scientist: Building sophisticated Technology Centric Information Infrastructure for all Round Socio-Economic Development Paul Prantosh Kumar1,*, Govindarajan S.2 1FBAS, BESU, Howrah, West Bengal, India 2Department of Computor Application, SRM University, Tamil Nadu, India *Email id: prantoshkpaul@gmail.com
Online published on 16 October, 2013. Abstract Information Scientist is one of the emerging professions in today's technology centric age. Information Scientist mainly deals with information activities and more clearly information processing. Information Scientist professionals are required in all most all type of organization whether it is MNC or Governmental Houses, Department or Ministries. Fundamentally, Information Scientist is essential where information play a lead role and main key resources. Virtually, Information Scientist is the right professional for sophisticated information management. Earlier and still in some cases, Information Scientist is mainly recruited in the Information Foundation and Information Enterprises; though today Information Scientist play an important role in all most all type of organization due to prime value of Information and similar facet. This paper is all about Information Scientist; including their need, changing need, larger working areas, values, key job, possible job and duties and obviously interdisciplinary skilled technologies. Efforts have been made to represent Information Scientist's various aspect brief manner; as still this (on Information Scientist) topic is less discussed Top Keywords Information Scientist, CIO, Chief Technology Officer, Information Management, Technology, Management, Information Science-Practice, Information Science, Technology (IST). Top |