AUTHOR:
Adam Rogala-Lewicki
ABSTRACT:
Norway – a northern country with a huge territory and proportionately small population, with impressive resources, is a graceful example of the use of new technologies in the process of building an open and transparent information society. In Scandinavia, doctrine of open government was born, and the very first legislative regulations of access to public information was implemented. It’s Norway, as one of three countries, alongside with the United Kingdom and the United States, where the first time in the history technological web – the Internet – linked international community. Norway was taken as a example to diagnose the transition of modern societies from the model of representative democracy to the model of information democracy, as well as a shift from the public attitude of access request – requiring the involveent of citizen, to an attitude of free publication. Finally, in this country one can observe one of the most advanced e-government and e-voting systems. Hence, countries in the Central and Eastern Europe should closely monitor solutions and learn from them.
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