Heading towards the global information society and adapting itself to the requirements of the European Union, Poland is currently witnessing two transitions. Imperfect as it is, the information campaign about the latter makes the society aware of the changes in process. Simultaneously, the former is often regarded as something remote and not treated as a crucial problem of the country. The truth, however, is as follows: integration into the European Union actually consists of making up for lost time that accumulated over the last 50 years, whereas, the shift towards the global information society is the challenge facing even the most advanced nations. Joining this challenge is tantamount to the struggle of defining the role that Poland and Poles will play in the world to come. The global information society will be different from the society as we know it, just like this society is nothing like the agrarian society symbolized by feudal serfs, although the time span between the two is only a little more than a century, compared to the time scale of human civilization, this is not long. On the basis of the knowledge available today, this report sets out to show developmental tendencies of Poland’s transition to the information society. See project website