Zróżnicowanie rozwoju społeczeństwa informacyjnego krajów Unii Europejskiej
Development diversification of information societies in EU-countries

Summary/Abstract: The information society is an important element of EU political strategies of the social and economic development of countries and regions. Together with the development of the information society and increasing use of modern Information and Communication Technologies, the digital divide appeared as a new inequality type between different units. The reduction of digital divide and increase of e-availability are priorities of EU policy for regional development and e-integration. In the article quantitative methods (principal component analysis, biplot, synthetic measures of development, S-time distance) are applied to evaluation of inequalities in the level of information society development between EU countries in 2007 and 2009 years. The analysis was prepared on the Eurostat data base.

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