TCS: Tech Central Station - e-Poland at the End of e-Europe
"The Polish government has finally started to talk about a "knowledge-based economy" (a term first used by Austrian School economist Fritz Machlup, and adopted by the EU in the Bologna Declaration signed in 1999). Brussels is now implementing the assumptions of the Sixth Framework Program, which defined the targets for 2002-2006. The European Commission advises integration of the three pillars of the New Economy: e-business, e-government and e-learning. Detailed directives of the EU are included in the document e-Europe 2005. "
We need to push to get Slovakia up there.