Terytorialne banki informacji

Abstract

The changes taking place in Poland, including the changes in the planning process, make it necessary to improve the access of self-government (and government) authorities to the information on socio-economic systems on a local and regional planes. The article contains the proposal of organizing the collection and spread of information in the form of data (information) banks, organized in a hierarchical system reflecting the administrative structure of the country and based on a so-called diffused database. Such banks would collect information describing in a comprehensive way territorial units as complex systems. Next, such information would be initially processed (reduced, selected and aggregated) and would be made available for self-government and government administrative authorities as well as for planning and research institutions. Since information banks should also contain a full set of decisions taken at all levels, as well as research and zoning findings, such banks would be the instrument of the implementation of a plan. In this way they would help realize one of the basic function of a plan — the informative function. Such an organization of the information system would have a significant unpact on territorial planning, and would unify methods and procedures, to the greatest advantage of small and/or weak communes