February 21st, 2012
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— Pia Rybenfeldt, Chairman, DI ITEK, Danish ICT and Electronics Federation, session moderator #dsm12.
On February 27-28 more than 200 high level representatives from European Member States, institutions, business, civil society and academia will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark for a forward-looking dialogue on the political challenges of creating a fully-fledged European Digital Single Market.
The conference is titled “A Digital Single Market by 2015 – A driver for economic growth and jobs“ and will feature a number of sessions covering the different aspects of the digital single market.
One of the sessions – the one I am moderating – is called “Smart public services in the Digital Single Market – Seamless cross-border e-government”. It will deal with the numerous challenges and responsibilities facing the public sector in regards to fulfilling its purpose as a facilitator of services with the primary function of making life easier for the citizens of Europe.
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February 17th, 2012
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— Lars-Henrik Myrmel-Johansen, Director General, Ministry of Government Administration, Norway, session moderator #dsm12.
The Danish Presidency of the European Union is hosting a High Level Conference on the Digital Single Market in Copenhagen, 27-28 February 2012. I am moderating a session, which will focus on how to turn online start-ups into global players and how to strengthening the environment for web entrepreneurs in Europe.
Web entrepreneurs play an important role in boosting the digital economy. Web entrepreneurs will not only contribute with innovative content and services for you and me. They are essential to the actual creation of growth and jobs, which is on everybody’s minds these days.
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February 14th, 2012
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— Posted by by David Hendon, Senior Advisor Ofcom.
EU regulators are thinking hard about the effect of the data explosion fuelled by Smartphones, tablets and video apps on radio spectrum requirements and on broadband infrastructures. But at the same time, cloud computing offers the promises of transformed business models, new economic growth and new jobs. But with the new opportunities come new challenges. Europe’s policy-makers and regulators need to think about this too!
A single market for cloud services is still in the making. Though widely hailed as a means to reduce start-up costs and increase flexibility for new businesses, it is my impression that there is still some hesitation to fully embrace cloud technology. However well-founded that might be, this hesitation should not be allowed to hamper the growth and job creation offered by cloud computing. Rather we should explore how to provide users and providers with conditions that allow for competition and innovation.
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February 10th, 2012
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— Posted by Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, World Intellectual Property Organization, Senior Economist (in personal capacity)
In the current environment, the search for new sprouts of growth preoccupies many of us. With the focus on austerity measures, the Euro and capital shortages, we have our heads in the macro-economy cloud; with some danger of getting lost in it…
At this juncture it is critical to remember what the important sources of growth really are. I mean innovation and entrepreneurship of course, in particular as they relate to new technologies and new jobs. I mean business and policy practices which avert the real risks to innovation-based growth in Europe. They matter. Let’s not treat them as residuals to (surely equally important and connected) macro-economy matters.
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February 10th, 2012
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— Posted by Fabio Colasanti, session moderator and President, International Institute of Communications.
On 27-28 February 2012 the Danish Presidency of the European Union is hosting a High Level Conference on the Digital Single Market in Copenhagen. One of the conference sessions, the one that I am moderating, will focus on how to improve that all important trust in the almost endless possibilities of the Internet – at the benefit of citizens and the public sector, consumers and business alike.
Everybody reading this blog will probably be used to buying products and services on-line, such as books and DVD’s ; airlines tickets; hotels, rental cars, and so on. Most of “us”, with an interest in Information and Communication Technologies, would consider this a normal occurrence and would miss it greatly if it ceased to exist.
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February 6th, 2012
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— Posted by Jørgen Abild Andersen, Director General Telecoms, Danish Business Authority.
In these days of uncertainty, where everyone is worried about the economy and the future, constructive answers and solutions that can spark off economic growth and create new jobs in Europe are in great demand.
I see a digital way forward and out of the European crisis. I believe that creating a Digital Single Market in the EU is not only a prerequisite for sustainable growth, but holds a promising prospect for economic growth and jobs in Europe.
I am not alone in believing in the potential of a Digital Single Market. The European Heads of State have on several occasions stated that Europe must have a well-functioning Digital Single Market in place by 2015 in order to generate new economic growth. And last week in Copenhagen, a successful informal Competitiveness Council was held on the topic.
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February 6th, 2012
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— Posted by Gérald Santucci, DG INFSO, Head of unit: Networked Enterprise and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Some 80 people will attend on 8th February the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Conference that will review progress of the implementation of the PIA Framework (PIAF) for RFID Applications, which was developed by industry (January 2011), endorsed by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (February 2011) and signed in Brussels on 6th April 2011, in the presence of Vice-President Neelie Kroes.
Since last year, several seminars and workshops have been organised by industry associations in different EU Member States, often with the support of the relevant ministries. In Germany, the Federal Office for Information Security has released Guidelines for the implementation of the RFID PIAF. GS1 has developed a PIA Software Tool to guide its member organisations in preparing PIA reports based on the PIAF.
Therefore, one year after its completion, the PIAF confirms that it represents a success of coregulation. Indeed, it was designed, developed and approved by all stakeholders from industry, data protection supervisory authorities, ENISA, and civil society.
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January 26th, 2012
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— Posted by Morten Møller, DG INFSO, Head of Unit “Strategy for ICT Research & Innovation”
Det danske formandskab for den Europæiske Union startede den 1. januar 2012 og skal lede Europa gennem en tid med mange udfordringer og forandringer.
Det er en tid, hvor Europa skal løfte sig ud af krisen og det kan kun ske en gennem fælles indsats og ved at sikre, at det indre marked revitaliseres så det store potentiale udnyttes.
Arbejdsprogrammet for det danske formandskab identificerer det digitale indre marked som en af nøglerne til at åbne Europas vækstpotentiale. Det understreger, at et velfungerende digitalt indre marked bl.a. kræver nemmere eHandel i EU, sænkelse af ‘roaming’ priserne og øget genbrug af offentlige data til at udvikle nye digitale tjenester. Derfor glæder vi os til at arbejde sammen med det danske formandskab om at realisere de fælles mål.
Vi hilser det danske EU formandskab velkomment og ser frem til samarbejdet.
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January 13th, 2012
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Posted by Zoran Stančič, DG INFSO, Deputy Director-General
Back in 2011 a series of agreements that strengthen China-EU collaboration in the field of Information Communication Technologies were concluded by China’s Ministry of Industry & Information Technology and the European Commission’s Information Society & Media Directorate-General.
I was in Chengdu on the 30th November 2011 where I had the pleasure to chair the meeting between a delegation from the European Commission and the Chinese authorities represented by Vice Minister Yang Xueshan and his team. The meeting was organised in the context of the 3rd EU-China Information Technology, Telecommunications and Informatisation bilateral dialogue and was very useful and productive.
On the one hand, we saw there is a great potential to work together to promote sustainable urbanisation via the development of “green smart cities”. On the other hand, we both recognised that the introduction and the use of ICT to make our cities greener and to help address some of the challenges of urban life are crucial.
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January 11th, 2012
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— Posted by Gerd Heinen, DG MARKT, Retail financial services and consumer policy unit
Carrying a virtual train ticket or repaying a friend with your mobile phone, buying your groceries online, paying with your debit card abroad – the way European citizens shop and pay is radically changing. A secure and transparent integrated payments environment throughout the EU could create more efficient, modern and safer means of payments – for the benefits of consumers, merchants and payment providers. Therefore, an integrated market for electronic payments is an important building block of the Commission’s Digital Agenda, and the Digital Single Market in particular.
Today, the Commission had adopted a Green Paper ‘Towards an integrated European market for card, internet and mobile payments’ which assesses the current landscape of card, internet and mobile payments in Europe.
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