Foundation for Information Society (INFOTA) has been operating as a research institute and knowledge centre since 1998. Its activity covers R&D, innovation, application development and consultancy tasks for industrial, commercial and service sector, state organisations and municipalities in Hungary and abroad.
Its interest area has got a wide range: information society, social networks and multicultural issues, information management, knowledge management, eLearning, educational games, simulation and optimisation of value production business processes, ebusiness and e-services, data and text mining, economy modelling, trend analysis, decision support, digitisation and information retrieval, data protection and information freedom, IT safety and security, tourism and heritage protection etc.
Related to the above, it makes software development and implements mobile and cloud based systems.
The R+D+I projects are made partly on the basis of orders by companies and institutions, partly in the frameworks of Hungarian or EU project calls, in order to further develop achievements as well as to create new products.
INFOTA is a registered adult training institution.
Current courses
Introduction
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Priority project
TÁMOP-2.2.4-11/1 – Joint knowledge for the success of entrepreneurships along the border
In the framework of the call TÁMOP 2.2.4-11/1, the Foundation for Information Society received a 30.77 million HUF support from the European Union for the project entitled Joint knowledge for the success of entrepreneurships along the border. The support was received for the implementation.
Contact
- Mail: 1507 Budapest, PO Box 213.
- Phone: +36-1-279-1510
- E-mail: info@infota.org
INFOTA’s research library has been enriched with new professional publications and dictionaries
We are pleased to announce that the Foundation for the Information Society (INFOTA) has successfully participated in the Kazinczy Ferenc book and library expansion competition announced by Tinta Könyvkiadó. Thanks to the support, our foundation has been able to add modern linguistic and native language publications to its own specialized library collection at a significant discount.
In the research and education projects of the INFOTA Foundation, precise professional language use, structured information processing, and the connection of digital and traditional cultural values play a prominent role, especially in our heritage protection, museum and public collection projects. The new source works acquired through the competition – including modern explanatory dictionaries, etymological handbooks and native language puzzles – directly support the everyday professional activities of our staff and researchers.
We would like to thank Tinta Könyvkiadó for its support and the opportunity provided by the Kazinczy grant, which greatly contributes to the further development of our foundation’s intellectual workshop.
The latest volume of the Alma Mater series has been published under the title Studies on Information and Knowledge Processes 22.
The latest volume of the Alma Mater series has been published under the title Studies on Information and Knowledge Processes 22. The 190-page volume, published in December 2025, was edited by Ferenc Kiss and issued by the Information Society Foundation. As a new contribution to the Alma Mater series, the publication focuses on current theoretical and practical questions of information and knowledge management, as well as artificial intelligence.
The volume brings together studies addressing a broad range of topics, including the knowledge governance of artificial intelligence, trust and adoption of AI in business, the opportunities generative AI offers to SMEs, the implications of frontier AI for business model innovation, the relationship between policing and artificial intelligence, the links between explicit online knowledge, tacit knowledge, and AI, AI-assisted diagnosis of systemic organisational disorders and risk forecasting, and the role of hybrid intelligence and Edge AI in a new era of managerial knowledge. The collection includes both English- and Hungarian-language contributions and is available for download from the Foundation’s website.
https://infota.org/en/publications/alma-mater-study-series/tanulmanyok-az-informacio-es-tudasfolyamatokrol-22-studies-on-information-and-knowledge-processes-22/
AI Course Starts
In cooperation with Neumann János Nonprofit Public Benefit Ltd. and Neuron Solutions Ltd., we have created a practical training course for employees working in SMEs that introduces the basics of using artificial intelligence in the workplace. Registration for the first courses is now open!
(Courses run in Hungarian).
https://neum.hu/palyazati-adatlap/
Our foundation supports the 55th András Román Summer Course on Monument Protection
Infota supports the organization of the 55th András Román Summer Course on Monument Protection in Budapest, between 6-10 July, 2025.
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