July 2000	Update: Czech Republic

(1) The basic information (number of inhabitants, infrastructure, town hall working hours, etc.) about all towns and villages are available on http://mesta.obce.cz. The lower number is related only to separated WWW sites offering extra information.

(2) Local "people’s" library is almost in every village, WWW pages can be found mostly for libraries in larger cities. They include also university and faculty libraries and libraries of the Academy of Science (totally 158, all of them with WWW sites)

(3) Seznam is the most important (in terms of market share) Internet search engine and directory in the Czech Republic, http://www.seznam.cz

(4) http://www.vlada.cz is the official WWW site of the Czech Government

(5) The basic information (address, services, working hours, etc.) about all museums and galleries are available on http://www.cz-museums.cz. The figure is related only to separated WWW sites offering extra information.

All the sectors show significant growth. The changes compared to Q4 are mostly related to increasing numbers for high schools, hospitals and local authorities (5-10%). Despite of the rapid development in the commercial sector, the public administration institutions still lack funding for increasing number of WWW services (especially hospitals, primary and secondary schools). The special cases are the large Web services containing information on small local authorities, resp. museums. They rarely have their independent Web sites (see the lower percentage) but all they are hosted on the site mentioned* (that means WWW pages exist for 100% of them).