— Posted by Paul Timmers, Director “ICT Addressing Societal Challenges” at DG INFSO

In what areas and how could EU action on social media benefit employability, jobs and growth across Europe?

These questions will be addressed during the Digital Agenda Assembly on 21 and 22 June in Brussels, more specifically in the workshop Social Media Social Networking for Economic Recovery, Jobs and Growth. We will explore the use and great potential of social media for growth and jobs in Europe from three perspectives:

1 - businesses;

2 - social media platform providers;

3 -  the public sector.

We are interested in discovering successful European cases from which lessons can be learned, be it from the business usage of social media or web-entrepreneurs’ point of view.  Read the full entry

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— Posted by Robert Madelin, DG INFSO Director General

During the 1st Digital Agenda Assembly I noticed that online engagement is worth the effort. We have collected hundreds of positive feedbacks and constructive ideas from stakeholders and friends on twitter and other online platforms.

I’d like to go a step further now and I would appreciate to get your views on how we could deploy online engagement activities up to a greater extent in the future; in other words: “How can we keep the Digital Agenda digital?”

I believe that engaging in a conversation on Twitter is constructive. Therefore I have scheduled a Tweetchat on Thursday 30 June from 11:45 to 12:30. Please tell all stakeholders and people committed to achieve the Digital Agenda for Europe to join the chat. I am very much looking forward to this online discussion!

My personal twitter account is @eurohumph but I will be using @DigitalAgendaEU on Thursday. If you want to give inputs or ask questions, just use #daechat when typing your tweet. The key INFSO colleagues will be joining in, too, so I’m looking forward to a strategy-building exchange on Thursday…

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— Posted by Isidro Laso Ballesteros, DG INFSO Scientific Officer in unit responsible for Networked Media Systems, Workshop organiser at Digital Agenda Assembly

Social networks are dramatically transforming economic and policy landscape, e.g. Arab uprising, zero email companies, crowd sourcing of innovation, emergency and crisis response. Moreover, social networks are strategic platforms to increase competitiveness of all sectors for Europe. Contrary to common thinking, there are many very successful European Social Networks supporting cultural diversity very close to citizens (representing 200 Million registered users). Read the full entry

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