Abstract
The article presents a general idea of the theory of self-organization (synergetics). It identifies various areas of synergetics and analyzes the objects of study of these areas. One of these areas is information synergetics, which studies the processes of information exchange, information modeling in society, living and inanimate nature. Information synergetics studies technical and information intelligent systems and patterns of information processes and interaction of elements in an information system. The article discloses general principles of the process of self-organization in the information space and the meta-model of self-organization, including joint activities between systems