E-Inclusion as the Part of E-Government Development in Lithuania

Abstract

The paper is based on a research dealing with the e-inclusion policy in Lithuania. Authors describe
and analyse public and private initiatives, designed to avoid electronic disjuncture, as these initiatives can
be realized through innovative projects. E-inclusion is an activity, an instrument of creation of information
society for everyone. e-inclusion helps to decrease the risk of digital disjuncture, to secure that disabled
persons, elder persons and socially sensitive sets be involved in development of e-government and avoid
new forms of disjuncture caused by information illiteracy and poverty of access to internet. Mykolas Romeris
University participated as a national correspondent for Lithuania in eInclusion@EU project, which
was launched under the European Union’s Information Society Technology program in 2004. The paper is
grounded on the material of this project.