INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT LEVEL IN CARPATHIAN REGIONS Piotr Werner Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies University of Warsaw Krakowskie Przedmieście 30 00-950 Warsaw Poland pawerner@uw.edu.pl Elżbieta Kozubek Institute of Geodesy and Cartography ul.Modzelewskiego 27 02-679 Warsaw Poland elak@igik.edu.pl Abstract Introduction Recently Information Society is one of the paradigms (tenets) of civilization development. It is synthetically defined by two features, and namely: (i) the general access to interesting the totality of population information as well as information satisfying interests of the different citizens’ and residents’ groups; this situation can be described as commonly well informed society; (ii) defined level of development and the spread of the ICT infrastructure, which in practice makes possible to treat them as general tools, the methods of work and the part of economic, technical, educational, cultural and different activity, both by individuals and mass. Objectives The aims of the project were the analysis of the development level of Information Society (IS) on Carpathian area in Europe as well as the study of coefficients characterizing the state of Information Society development and its dynamics. On the basis of analysis of definition the concept of Information Society there has been chosen the elements, which were recognized as the most essential factors influencing on development the IS. It has been assumed, that one of the most important factors of development the IS is the wide understood of accessibility to net. The following hypothesis was formulated: modified (between others hierarchical, taking into account e.g. demographic profiles) spatial coefficient of population potential is the