OGAS

OGAS (Russian: Общегосударственная автоматизированная система учёта и обработки информации, "ОГАС", "National Automated System for Computation and Information Processing") was a Soviet project to create a nationwide information network. The project began in 1962 but was denied necessary funding in 1970. It was one of a series of socialist attempts to create a nationwide cybernetic network.^[1]

The US government in 1962 regarded the project as a major threat due to the “tremendous increments in economic productivity” which could disrupt the world market. Arthur Schlesinger Jr, historian and special assistant to President Kennedy, described “an all out Soviet commitment to cybernetics” as providing the Soviet Union a “tremendous advantage” in respect to production technology, complex of industries, feedback control and self-teaching computers.^[2]

^ Peters, Benjamin (2016). How not to network a nation : the uneasy history of the Soviet internet. MIT Press. pp. 35–55. ISBN 978-0-262-33419-8.
^ Mosco, Vincent (17 November 2015). To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World. Routledge. pp. 10–100. ISBN 978-1-317-25037-1.

[1] Peters, Benjamin (2016). How not to network a nation : the uneasy history of the Soviet internet. MIT Press. pp. 35–55. ISBN 978-0-262-33419-8.

[2] Mosco, Vincent (17 November 2015). To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World. Routledge. pp. 10–100. ISBN 978-1-317-25037-1.

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