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I. INFORMATION SOCIETY: CONDITIONS AND BURDENS For countries of East Central Europe it is same three target tasks closely interrelated but separable and identifiable that constitute toughest strategic challenge: * The program of catching up (the modernisation of economic-social-political system by strengthening competitiveness of each country and region of which extension of production and cultural potential and development of quality of life can be both source and result). * The Euro-Atlantic integration (the launching of process of catching up is at same time a step taken towards a higher integration and integratability degree). * Establishing open infrastructure of new democracies (strengthening civil (multi)-generation transformation of way of operation of citizens, their relation to institutions, behaviour patterns and reflexes simultaneously with gradually decreasing weight of state). For achieving above goals it is paradoxically same grand scale series of changes that both offer well established chances and mean greatest source of danger for East Central European group of countries: composite process global in all of its elements called challenge of society. The dilemma is thus presented in this form: information society, economy with an axis of knowledge either provide a historical chance for region, and then as literary scenario of a rational attempt of outbreak national can be born, out of which a series of actions and programs may outgrow which can generate visions by well to point, diligent work of generations. Or, quite to contrary, earlier model of dropping behind will be replaced by new symmetries, through a kind of illiteracy and infrastructural backwardness region will become outskirts of shaping information-communication world system, losing for a long time even hope for catching up and integrated. In its 1996 report IRDC (International Development Research Centre) states that the next quarter of a century nine (!) out of world's fifteen leading economies will regress to level of developing countries for lack of assimilation capabilities of knowledge and know-how required for new communication media. It is a challenge, as many people believe, just like transfer of commercial routes from Mediterranean to Atlantic Ocean was once. Because determining resource can be produced, and process, due to information technology itself, takes place independently, simultaneously to above processes getting into main stream may become an available option. For nation-sates much more is at stake than for multinational companies, and toughest lessons will present themselves on level government and regional federations. The actual content of social-economic structure change (its ties to culture, its intensive knowledge character, intellectual resource and creativity demand, multicultural embeddedness) that takes place at a pace of world history described by label age offers an opportunity never had before for countries of region which have out-of-date structure of industry in process of being restructured but have a social-cultural base that is perfectly adjusted to above challenge, and has been shaped during centuries in a characteristic way. The internal capabilities, however, are there in vain if right in moment of beginning they have to face threefold burdens: 1. Catching up is made difficult by problems of structure and attitudes developed historically. 2. The loser of forced economic paths that have evolved due to change of regime is, almost everywhere, nothing else but educational-cultural sphere. 3. Provided that proper attitude has developed and information strategy accepted as priority is backed up by high level decisions, financing of programs will clash with almost unbeatable hardships. …
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