(in Polish) Digital Europe

The course run as a seminar (class discussion) will focus on main aims and implementations of the information and digital society of the European Union with particular emphasis on the newest European Union’s programme scheduled for the period 2021-2027 “Digital Europe”. The rapid acceleration of digitalization in the XXI-st century amplified by latest occurrences as the COVID-19 pandemic has a tremendous impact on changes taking place in all spheres of our life. The crucial point of a discussion will be a vision of the European gigabit society promoted currently by the European Union, tools indispensable for its creation and the impact of this phenomenon on our life.

The course run as a seminar (class discussion) is devoted to a reflection on chosen digital processes in the European Union and Poland. This subject covers the development and the current stage of the European Union’s information and digital society, tools applied in its implementation, factors playing an important role in creation of its shape and scope as well as on positive and negative effects of digitalization.

These covers following topics:

1. Concepts of information and knowledge-based societies

2. History of the development of the information and digital society of the European Union

3. Causes of the technological gap between the European Union on one hand and the USA and Japan on the other hand

4. Achievements of the European Union in the development of the information and digital society in the period of the “Lisbon Strategy” and the “Europe 2020”strategy

5. Acceleration of the development of information and communications technologies at the beginning of the XXI century

6. The most important information and communications technologies playing a crucial role in the digital revolution process of the XXI century

7. The role of innovations in the development of digital processes and its impact on the European and global economy.

8. Aims of the new European Union’s programme “Digital Europe” in the direction towards the development of a digitalization process for the period 2021-2027.

9. The concept of the European gigabit society

10. Applications of the information and communications technologies in the sphere of electronic public services, business and people’s everyday fife.

11. Digital economy

12.. Digitalization processes in Poland

13.. European Union’s solutions in the sphere of cybersecurity

14. Impact of unforeseen circumstances as for example the COVID-19 pandemic on digitalization processes.

15. Information sources on digitalization in the European Union, Poland and on the world

Topisc will be shaped depending upon Students's interesta.

Student’s workload:

seminar – 15 hrs

preparation of a presentation or a coursework – 30 hrs.

acquaintance with official documents of the EU - 15 hrs

total – 60 hrs

Chosen official documents and publications

Chosen official documents of the European Union and Poland

1. Growth, competitiveness, employment. The challenges and ways forward into the 21st century. White papers. COM (93)700. 3 December 1993 Part A and B

2. Bangeman M. [i in.] Europe and the global information society. Recommendations to the European Council [online] European Commission, Brussels 1994 http://aei.pitt.edu/1199/1/info_society_bangeman_report.pdf (dostep: 21.04.2021)

3. eEurope. An information society for all. [online] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=URISERV:l24221&from=EN (dostep 22.05.2021)

4. eEurope 2005 [online] European Commission, Brussels 2002 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=URISERV:l24226&from=EN (dostęp: 21.04.2021)

5. EUROPE 2020 A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

COM/2010/2020 final

6. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions A Digital Agenda for Europe. COM/2010/0245 final

7. Program operacyjny – Polska Cyfrowa [online] Ministerstwo Infrastruktury i Rozwoju, Warszawa, 2014.[online] https://www.polskacyfrowa.gov.pl/strony/o-programie/dokumenty/program-polska-cyfrowa-2014-2020/ (dostęp 20 maja 2021)

8. Komitet Rady do Spraw Cyfryzacji, Sprawozdanie z prac zespołu zadaniowego “Od papierowej do cyfrowej Polski”. 2017 s. 3 [online] http://krmc.mc.gov.pl/download/50/16915/PaperlessCashlessnaKRMC2short.pdf (dostęp: 21.04.2021)

9. Directive (EU) 2016/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2016 concerning measures for a high common level of security of network and information systems across the Union. OJ L 194, 19.7.2016, p. 1–30

10. Ustawę z dnia 5 lipca 2018 r. o krajowym systemie cyberbezpieczeństwa. Dz. U. 2018 poz. 1560

11. Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (Recast)Text with EEA relevance PE/52/2018/REV/1. OJ L 321, 17.12.2018, p. 36–214

12.Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank. Investing in a smart, innovative and sustainable Industry A renewed EU Industrial Policy Strategy. COM/2017/0479 final

13. European Commission: Digimarket/en/news/digital-europe-programme-proposed-eu92-billion-funding-2021-2027tal Europe Programme [online] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single- (dostęp: 21.05 2021)

14. European Commission: Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI). 2020. [online] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/digital-economy-and-society-index-desi-2019 (dostęp 23.05. 2021)

15.COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Connectivity for a Competitive Digital Single Market - Towards a European Gigabit Society

COM/2016/0587 final

16.Regulation (EU) 2018/1971 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and the Agency for Support for BEREC (BEREC Office), amending Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1211/2009Text with EEA relevance.PE/51/2018/REV/1. OJ L 321, 17.12.2018, p. 1–35

17.European Parliament resolution of 1 June 2017 on internet connectivity for growth, competitiveness and cohesion: European gigabit society and 5G (2016/2305(INI)). OJ C 307, 30.8.2018, p. 144–153

18. Regulation (EU) 2019/881 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on ENISA (the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) and on information and communications technology cybersecurity certification and repealing Regulation (EU) No 526/2013 (Cybersecurity Act) (Text with EEA relevance) PE/86/2018/REV/1. OJ L 151, 7.6.2019, p. 15–69

19. Wspólna Deklaracja Polski i USA na temat 5G, [online] https://www.premier.gov.pl/files/files/5g_polska.pdf (dostęp 9.09. 2021)

20. Commission Recommendation (EU) 2019/534 of 26 March 2019 Cybersecurity of 5G networks. C/2019/2335. OJ L 88, 29.3.2019, p. 42–47

21.Regulation (EU) 2021/694 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 establishing the Digital Europe Programme and repealing Decision (EU) 2015/2240 (Text with EEA relevance)

PE/13/2021/INIT. OJ L 166, 11.5.2021, p. 1–34

22.WHITE PAPER On Artificial Intelligence - A European approach to excellence and trust. COM/2020/65 final

23.Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACT) and amending certain Union Legislative acts {SEC(2021) 167 final} - {SWD(2021) 84 final} - {SWD(2021) 85 final 21.04.2021

Treaties of the Council of Europe relating to the information society issues.

Publications:

24.Toffler A.: Trzecia fala, Warszawa PIW 2003

25.Castells M.: Społeczeństwo sieci. Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2007

26.Grabowska M., Ogonowska A.: The Information Society Policy in the European Union and Poland „Yearbook of Polish European Studies” 2013 vol.16 s. 267 -288

27.Grabowska M.: Innowacyjność w porządku prawnym Unii Europejskiej. W: Innowacyjność polskiej gospodarki wybrane aspekty. Redakcja naukowa Krzysztof Opolski, Jarosław Górski. Warszawa: Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2018 s. 15-25

28.Grabowska M.: Projektowanie i platformizacja w działalności Unii Europejskiej w obszarze innowacji. „Studia Europejskie” 2017 nr 2 (82) s. 69-93

29. Grabowska M.: Przemysł 4.0 w Unii Europejskiej. „Studia Europejskie. Studies in European Affairs” 2018 nr 3 s. 257-279

30. Grabowska M.: Europejskie społeczeństwo gigabitowe „Studia Europejskie. Studies in European Affairs”, 2020, nr 1 s. 153 – 172

31. 5G: sieci telekomunikacyjne nowej generacji[online] https://www.gov.pl/web/5g/dopuszczalne-wartosci-pola-elektromagnetycznego-w-polsce (dostęp: 01.12.2021)

32. K. Śledziewska, R. Włoch: Gospodarka cyfrowa. Jak nowe technologie zmieniają świat [e-book] Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2020

After completing the course students:

- deepened knowledge of the development of the information and digital society of the European Union

- knowledge on main aims of the “Digital Europe” programme of the European Union

- knowledge on newest information and communications technologies accelerating the XXIth century digital revolution

- understand the concept of the European gigabit society

- deepened knowledge on factors shaping digitalization and its impact on the development of the European and global economy and society

- knowledge on activities of the European Union in the area of cybersecurity

- knowledge on digitalization in Poland

- skilled at using information sources and services on digitalization in the European Union, Poland and on the world

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The assessment on a grade presented during the last class in a semester will be based on the attendance which is mandatory, active participation and delivery of a short presentation or a coursework.

Not applicable.