The Lisbon Strategy stated a new strategic aim for the European Union �to transform the European Union into the most dynamic economy in the world in a decade, asserting of increase and betterment of opportunities of employment and bigger social cohesion. Implementation of the Lisbon Strategy means concentration on two main tasks: encouragement of stronger permanent increase of economy and creation of more and better job places. Most serious attention should be paid to differences between the socially disadvantaged, and the disabled. It is important to fight discrimination, encourage opportunities of employment for the disabled. Lithuania successfully participates in implementation programmes of the Lisbon Strategy. The state undertook for every resident who can and would like to work to create opportunities to ensure proper level of living by his or her work, care of socially most vulnerable persons more and develop more flexible forms of work organisation. Development of an information society is one of the three main priorities of the Republic of Lithuania stated in Lithuanian long-term development strategy. It conforms with the goals of the European Union. Objectives of Lithuanian information society development are coordinated with attitudes and demands of the Lisbon Strategy and initiative �eEurope � information society for everyone�. The disabled can integrate into labour market by taking part in telework and e-business. It is quite important that disabled persons could use IT opportunities. Authors consider the opportunity of disabled integration in labour market by implementing modern information technologies.

On June 1, which was the international day for the protection of children, the Secretariat of Special Assignments Minister for Electronic Government Affairs of Latvia launched an informational social campaign called �Be Careful: On the Internet You Are on Stage!� The aim of the project is to focus public attention on children�s safety on the Internet.

More than 50 NGOs and telecentres practitioners managing e-inclusion programs across Europe met for the Telecentre Leaders Forum � Europe (TLF �E) on April 8th and 9th in Radisson Hotel, Riga, Latvia. Participants shared innovative practices on e-inclusion and identified how to help NGOs and telecentre practitioners find resources they need to be sustainable and effectively contribute to achieving the goals of the Lisbon Strategy (2005) and Riga Declaration (2006).

Technological progress has made it easier to develop information technologies in rural Lithuania, but it is still true that people in the countryside are less advantaged then their fellow citizens in urban areas when it comes to accessing IT. Lithuania has invested quite a bit of effort in projects which seek to support and strengthen IT in rural areas. One such project involves the creation of rural Internet access points (RIAPs), and this is now an important programme which is supported by the Lithuanian government.

This paper is a review of numerical indicators related to higher education in the field of information and communications technologies in Latvia in 2007. The author focuses on trends since 2000 and offers his thoughts about students and graduates in this area.

It was two years ago that the Republic of Estonia entered a new phase in the administration of elections � for the first time in the world, Internet voting with binding results was applied nationwide. This process took advantage of an existing infrastructure for remote authentication, and the primary goal in I-voting is to provide voters with an alternative way of casting their ballot. This broadens accessibility and increases turnout.

In many ways, innovations and E-business compete for the attention of policymakers. Since much hype about E-business, attention has shifted more toward innovation politics, although potential links between the two policy areas appear not to be sufficiently explored, understood or utilised.

Information competence is a fundamental factor in seeking out or creating new knowledge and in improving one�s capabilities and skills in the knowledge society of our present day. This particularly applies to learning awareness. Information competence and the information culture guarantee competitiveness among young specialists. This paper focuses on scientific research which has studied intensive approaches toward educating people in the field of information literacy. The study was conducted among students and personnel at public institutions of higher education in northern Lithuania. The project was partly funded by the European Union under the name �BIBLIONOVA�, and it ran from 2005 until 2007.

One of the important ways in which Lithuania implements its employment policies involves co-ordination with the European Union�s Lisbon Strategy and the way in which it is being implemented in the country. Validated in 2005, the Lithuanian programme for implementing the strategy helps to determine the major elements of employment policy. Small and medium enterprises are an important component of the domestic market. Information technologies allow clients who are distant from major information centres to access information. In this article, the authors analyse the way in which the Web sites of small and medium Lithuanian enterprises present information about them.

Globalisation is a suggestive word. It is often used in various ways to describe a phenomenon of a worldwide nature. The term relates to the process of national economies which are becoming integrated into the global economy. This is a measure of internationalisation. It appears through global production networks and the organised marketing of transnational companies. We must not forget, however, that globalisation is still not part of all national economies which are seeking to achieve an identical level. Third World countries in particular are lagging behind the dominant triad of the United States, Europe and Japan.