Basics of the concept of situational informatization of population activities

The article presents basics of the concept of situational informatization of the population activities considered as an aggregate of education, production, and other kinds of activity. Situational informatization is studied as a means of stage-by-stage organizational and technological improvement of the object through planned transitions from the starting situation to the target one. The situations are presented by formalized descriptions of the predefined set of states spaces (defense, economics, etc.), which characterize the country's potential. The object is monitored on the basis of portraits of the achieved situations. Information technologies based on the situational informatization methodology are implemented in the human–machine environment for problem solving (“s-environment”) which serves as an infrastructural base of online services (banking, logistics, etc.). The definitions of state government system, economic mechanism (as the specialized systems of status rivalry), country's potential, the types and the portraits of situations, etc. are given.