Information Society in Hungary: Impact Assessment of Public Policies with the Help of Social Indicators

Péter Futó
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Péter Futó: Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University of Budapest, Fővám tér 8, H-1093 Budapest, Hungary

Society and Economy, 2005, vol. 27, issue 2, 171-193

Abstract: Despite significant policy efforts, in 2003 the Hungarian general population has fallen behind the Central and Eastern European (CEE) average regarding most social indicators of Internet access, usage, knowledge and attitudes. The article is a policy impact assessment interpreting the results of a population survey covering 10 countries of CEE, performed in 2003 within the framework of the SIBIS Project (Statistical Indicators Benchmarking the Information Society). The 10 Newly Associated States (NAS) covered by the survey are as follows: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. In case of Hungary the relevant strategies, legal framework development and support actions of various public policy areas are analysed with the help of an international comparative analysis of survey findings.

Keywords: e-society; e-learning; e-work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
Note: This article is one of the outcomes of the SIBIS Project. SIBIS (Statistical Indicators Benchmarking the Information Society) is a project funded under the “Information Society Programme” of the European Commission (IST-2000-26276). The Department of Sociology and Social Policy of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration was the Hungarian partner within the international research project SIBIS. The Hungarian research team was coordinated by Professor György Lengyel; researchers: Ildikó Hrubos, Marianna Kopasz, Lilla Vicsek and the author of this article.
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