Infosocionomics is a newly proposed field of social science by Prof. Dr. Shumpei Kumon (ex-President of Society of Infosocionomics, President of Glo-SAI) in the “Naha Declaration” of July, 2000.
Since the end of the 20th century, tremendous developments of digital technology in various fields has brought the modern world into a new stage, namely the informatized society. The features of the informatized society are fundamentally different from those of previous stages of the modern society. Infosocionomics is specifically designed field of social science to analyze the features of the informatized society.
The fundamental concept of Infosocionomics is super-imposition of the three dynamisms, namely the political dynamism, the economic dynamism and the social dynamism. All incidents and events that took place in the modern society since the middle of the 16th century are recognyzed as the results of overlapping (super-imposition) of these dynamisms.
The researches of social science, however, have not yet established a sophisticated modality that precisely reflects this three-dynamism perspective. Political science, for example, mainly analyzes political issues, leaving economic and social issues out of its academic framework. Economics mainly analyzes economic issues, leaving political and social issues. Recently many researches of economics analyze DX (Digital Transformation) or digitization. In those researches, however, the core features of social activities or informatization have fallen off the scope.
Therefore, we conclude that we need to establish a new research framework that can cover– the three dynamisms simultaneously, especially exploring the core features of informatization. That is the Infosocionomics.
In fact, the Infosonionomcs proposed in the “Naha Declaration” was based on the keen awareness of this problem, which led to establishment of the Society of Infosocionomics in 2005. Shumpei Kumon was inaugurated the first President of the society.