PRÁCA S INTERNETOM AKO INDIKÁTOR POČÍTAČOVEJ GRAMOTNOSTI OBYVATEĽSTVA SLOVENSKA
INTERNET WORK AS AN INDICATOR OF COMPUTER LITERACY OF THE POPULATION IN SLOVAKIA

Author(s): KATARÍNA VILINOVÁ, Lucia Petrikovicova, Laura Babjaková
Subject(s): Social Informatics, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: computer literacy; internet work; European Union; Slovakia; spatial disparities;
Summary/Abstract: Computer literacy affects all areas of human life, and our subsequent control is almost inevitable nowadays. Due to the rapid growth of scientific knowledge and development of information and communication technologies, significant changes are taking place in individual countries. New technologies are coming to the fore through which there is an increase in country's economy, employment as well as labor productivity. To some extent, this fact is influenced by the ability of basic computer skills. This aspect is also important in terms of regional development at the national, regional and local level. The aim of the paper is to characterize selected indicator of computer literacy - internet work at three levels of Slovakia (state, district and municipality). The paper will be based by data from the Statistical Office of the European Union and Statistical Office of the Slovak republic. The methods of analysis, synthesis as well as graphical and cartographic methods will be the main methods used in the paper. Based on the achieved results, it can be stated that Slovakia achieved an average of 51.4 % in the development of internet use. It is very just above the EU average. At the regional level, the highest rate of internet use is manifested in the western part of Slovakia. At the local level in the case of the Nitra district, the internet was mostly used in the hinterland of the city of Nitra.

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