"Economic analyses and historical evidence show that technological change is a factor that stimulates growth. The impact of the Information Society (IS) on growth will be significant and positive". Nevertheless, the emergence of the IS will depend on social acceptability, the capacity to react and flexibility of companies, and the measures that governments and administrative bodies make available in order to achieve an appropriate transition.

"Society and Cultural change" encompasses aspects related with the culture of social change and caused by the impact of the IS, and these will provide a response to the new ways in which we live and coexist, to the new ways in which we work and spend our leisure time, and to the new relations between governors and citizens. In this respect, the protagonist is social change, rather than technology. Therefore, the objective to be achieved in this context is to consolidate in our society tools that are related with the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), in order to strengthen social cohesion, promote equality, enhance the quality of life and improve interaction between political forces and the citizen. In short, the new Digital Society introduces and demands new forms with respect to how we communicate, work, interrelate and participate in society.

The following provisional indicators of the position in Catalonia have been proposed: