Text on European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk.

Only a few cities can claim that they have changed Europe and indeed the World. Gdańsk is privileged to be one of them. It is not a “caprice of history” that the Solidarity movement which, in the end, got the iron curtain torn, was born in this particular place. It is a logical consequence of ten centuries of the collective wisdom of the people that built Gdańsk and the region of Pomerania. The tragic assassination of the Mayor...

This paper motivates the study of the impact of digital government on social solidarity; builds a conceptual foundation with four types of solidarity – group-based, compassionate, instrumental and emphatic; relates digital government to the type and moment – pre-technological, technological and post-technological of solidarity; and puts forward the type-moment frame to study how digital government is supporting social solidarity...