Development of the information society and rendering the public electronic services for people and business

Abstract

The amount of computers and the Internet usage have rapidly increased in the last years. The question of rural residents' involvement into the information society remains relevant. Rural areas are less provisioned with personal computers, and telecommunication facilities are not enough developed. So, the questions of the Internet usage and development of public electronic services are being solved slowly. It decreases people's motivation for usage of the information technologies, if the provision for personal computers depends on families' incomes, the Internet usage depends on the people's age. The amount of Lithuanian people, who are using information technologies, is increasing; decrease of its digital disjuncture directly depends on the improvement of electronic facilities and on development of the information content and public electronic services for business. The widest usage is in the public electronic services of the first level, and only half of the users are interested in the second level of the public electronic services.