ICT Education of future public administration staff oriented to the needs of knowledge society

Abstract

European Union (EU) gets across ambitious transformation from industrial society over information society to declared competitive knowledge society. Governments of EU members’ states are investing huge amount of money in the knowledge society to achieve economic growth and international competitiveness. Information and communication technologies (ICT) provide an efficient platform for national knowledge management. Thanks to accessible technology, citizens can actively participate in managing their government and country. Continuous development of ICT not only allows passive dissemination of information but also actively helps in knowledge creation. Main prerequisites for the successful use of ICT tools for eGovernment purposes are to have developed sufficient infrastructure providing Internet access, well designed and available eGovernment services and digitally literate users on both sides, i.e. as the public officials and citizens themselves. The paper presents how we are continuously innovating provided education in the field of ICT of specific target group, which will take a part in eGovernment in the future.