In the shadow of the fast coming global environmental and social crisis we have to fundamentally reorganise our social communication and control processes and we need social innovation. We have to create such education to involve future generations – by using sense, emotion and will – in acquiring knowledge about the increasing ecological and social threats and also about the answers to them. This goal can only be reached if structures of public education and science, developed and successful in the industrial age, will be transformed to meet the challenges of information society – with autonomy, social involvement and co-operation.

Speaking about digital public goods, we think of goods to be provided to all. We do not want to close out anybody from the consumption of information or knowledge products. Recently, when information becomes a more and more important resource the significance of knowledge capital can be compared to of material capital. The article seeks what are the social and legal conditions, in addition to the "unlimited access", that create digital public goods.

The Hungarian information society – regardless to its modest development – is increasingly divided. In addition to the known reasons, it should be considered that the majority of the outcasts have neither direct contact with PCs and internet (the feature devices of information society), nor with persons using these devices on a daily basis. In order to break the cultural and knowledge barriers, that mostly responsible for the digital division, we have to launch such IT programs that regenerate incomplete social contacts in order to speed up the spread of innovation, new values and attitudes.

The article uses practical approach with everyday examples of the application of IT and communication devices and software showing that the use of simple looking technology how deeply affects everyday life and also democracy.

In recent times, not only the US but also other western democracies can be described as "two-rightwing-party-systems" or in practice as one-party-systems – monopolising political decision making by an institutional structure based on self-legitimising consensus. What are the social grounds and structural reasons that develop the negative tendencies in politics and justice – putting away political liberties, because they cause only trouble? The spoor leads to the structural crisis of the capitalist way of social reproduction.