Unia Europejska wobec wyzwań rewolucji internetowej
The European Union and the challenges of the Internet revolution

Summary/Abstract: The use of the potential of continually developing information and communication technologies (ICT) and especially the Internet leads to an increase of innovativeness, accelerates economic growth and impacts on all socio-economic spheres, thus contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of the citizens. These circumstances result in both a growing risk of marginalization of economies and an opportunity for faster economic growth, whereas for the least developed countries there opens a prospect of reducing their backlog. The object of the present article is to assess the situation and the activity of the EU in the context of challenges related to the Internet revolution and the ongoing transformation in the direction of likewise economy. Based on the information and data gathered from the literature, studies and reports, analysis is undertaken of selected indexes defining the conditions and range of the application of the Internet in EU economy and changes observed in this respect.

• Details
• Contents