University as a Provider of Public Electronic Services: Situation Analysis and Development Tendencies
University as a Provider of Public Electronic Services: Situation Analysis and Development Tendencies

Summary/Abstract: A rapid development of information and telecommunication technologies and their usage in the activity of organization that becomes more and more popular have encouraged scientists and politicians from different countries of the world to focus on the possibilities to transfer the services of the public administration in to the electronic area. In the beginning of the XXI century the majority of the European States and international organizations have adopted special conceptual acts (in Lithuania the main document of this character is the Lithuanian electronic government conception adopted in 2003) the most significant aim and goal of which is to provide remote public services by using information and telecommunication technologies. In Lithuania as well as in many other European countries there is an objective to foster the electronic government, to provide public services and information to the citizens as much efficiently and operatively as possible thus modernizing the national governance. The appearance of the electronic government is determined by new tendencies of public administration services using for this purpose information and communication technologies. In this way the electronic government becomes one of the methods improving collaboration between the State and the community. Higher education, its role and impact on various social activities makes an essential influence implementing modernization of the educational systems and fostering the overall development of the country (Rutkauskienė et al., 2006). Nowadays, a knowledge society distinguished by rapid change and based on information technologies is an inseparable part of political as well as educational discourse. As it has been pointed out in the documents on the Lithuanian educational policy (Lithuanian Education Guidance for 2003–2012), one of the most important challenges for a modern society is information explosion, i.e. awareness that information may not simply serve a person’s interests but enthral him as well.

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