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The Digitization of Society – Case of Specific Chosen State Alliance of Four Central European States

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The purpose of this research is to study the process of the Visegrad Group citizens being gradually incorporated in the digital environment. The present digital world needs digital sovereign residents who are competent i.e. capable of dealing with Information Age systems; electronic devices, digital computers and modern scientific technologies and are open i.e. who are open and proactively ready to benefit from advantages and challenge possible risks of intended usage. Further requirements on the direction through the entire digital world are digital access and the spreader usage of distinctive products and services. An online survey was conducted examining this development, and respondents were questioned on certain issues and aspects of the digital world in the Visegrad Group; including countries as the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia

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  1. VSM/CITY University of Seattle, Panonska cesta 17, 85104, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Michal Beno

  2. FM CU, Odbojarov 10, P. O. Box 95, 820 05, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Darina Saxunova

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Beno, M., Saxunova, D. (2019). The Digitization of Society – Case of Specific Chosen State Alliance of Four Central European States. In: Silhavy, R. (eds) Software Engineering and Algorithms in Intelligent Systems. CSOC2018 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 763. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91186-1_1

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