EKW: eGov - THE SYSTEM TO SUPPORT PROCESS OF GRANTING VISAS

The purpose of the paper is to present the system that can support national authorities in the process of granting people with visas by enhancing the information about the people who apply for them. The process of gathering such information can be enhanced with external information filtered out from external sources (dedicated sources in the Internet) and derived from databases that are not accessible to the public. Moreover, the article touches the subject of e-government as a compilation of e-administration and e-democracy and the Polish state-of-the-art in the e-Government solutions.