Information economy in European Union and Turkey

Data processing technologies began to change all economy from production tocommerce, from health services to tourism, all stages of the education and even the politicsand public administration. Differences in time and place are removed by data processingtechnologies, speed and range of work changes.For business enterprices, countries are both a potential market and also a rival. In theworld where new working forms came out, advances in science, computer andcommunication area are the base of this change. The developments that came out whileknowledge?s being processed, saved, transported, used are called as InformationTechnologies.Information technologies that are strategically important for Turkey, accelerateinvestigation-development, decision, planning, production and delivering processes and causeof increase in productivity. In this respect Turkey should be a good user of informationtechnologies and at the same time should produce these technologies.The aim of this work is investigating use of information technologies in EuropeanUnion countries and especially in Turkey and examining the studies directed at removingdigital diversity and making Information technologies widespread. From this point of viewevaluation of information technologies is investigated in detail as internet and electroniccommerce.