Development of Information Society: Problems and Solutions

The coming of the 21St century saw an increasing number of Lithuanians making use of computers.1 However, this situation should be seen from two different perspectives: state institutions and mass media pays a lot of attention to the development of information, or knowledge society, but people involved in the practical installation of information technologies (IT) are not very optimistic. State institutions are concerned with keeping up with the progress in this field in European Union, and especially neighboring Baltic countries; the consumer, on the other hand, sees IT in the light of the possibilities of his/her enterprise that usually are quite modest.