Suchergebnisse

In the age of common lnternet usage, we cannot imagine administration and local governance development without modern view into serving the citizens, which are looking forward for ensuring basic services and constant improvement of their quality. This some citizens' demands concerns governmental information systems. Citizens are demanding not only presentation of important for them and the city data and events, but also enabling quick and efficient way of dealing with their cases. Moreover except the administration cases they are also looking for public debate being followed at the lnternet. They are more willing to raise their critical opinion on the chat room or discussion forum. In this case modern politician must be aware of this virtual public sphere power if he or she wants to come up to contemporary citizen expectations. In Poland path of e-government development was not so smooth. As findings from the previous research confirm thesis about low e-services development at the beginning and even lack of them in some regions of Poland. Now we can observe the rapid growth of ICT in Poland and its visual impact on the local democracy shaping process. We can of course discuss both sides of this impact - positive and negative. According to cases mentioned in the paper I will try to present some important digital initiatives being introduced in Poland on the level of local democracy. It is worth to present some actions which are being introduced to improve administration and information system as for example: e-commune system (being implemented in different cities in Poland - the e-commune is not only presentation of information, but it is mainly "virtual office"); regional information portals (eg. Doba etc.). It is also important to describe the improvement of communication between local politicians and their voters - e-communication, econsultation (eg. blogs; discussion forums).

Three European research teams from the academic field meet to study the interest of media in matters concerning of the common European space. The results show that the European Union and its member countries do not constitute, at the moment, a usual priority issue in informative agendas of analyzed media in Poland, Romania and Spain. These results can be deduced of the analysis of the indicators of journalistic interest, such as, for example: the priority use of routine news to cover the European events; the low media interest in the Europeanist debate; the insignificant percentage of European news that media highlight on their front pages or summaries; the reduced length or extension of the majority of European news, the lack of an accurate knowledge by citizens of who is behind the spread news.