Here’s a new year message from me: 3 things I witnessed in 2011, and why they give me hope for the future.
(NB you can see this video with subtitles in English / Nederlands / Français / Italiano / Deutsch / Español / Polski: just click on the “CC” button at the bottom of the video screen).
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Thanks to everyone who replied to my tweet on Monday! Happy reading (or watching in the case of the Nick Bilton book)
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Tie between Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, and The Official Steve Jobs biography, Walter Isaacson
My picks
I live in the future and here’s how it works by Nick Bilton (Video about book)
Wiera Gran L’acusée, by Agata Tuszynska
Trois Femmes Puissantes by Marie NDiaye
Tussen twee vuren by Malin Persson Giolito
(I also read the Steve Jobs biography which really shows you different sides of the guy. He was a genius and a complex friend)
Your picks
Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, Clay Johnson
Dark Market: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You, Misha Glenny
Wired for innovation, Erik Brynkolfsson and Adam Saunders
Deconstructing Digital Natives, Michael Thomas
Adapt: Why success always starts with failure, Tim Harford
Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson
Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson (about how a trans-atlantic murder investigation in 1910 showed the world the importance of radio)
The Cluetrain manifesto
How the World Was One, non-fiction history of telecommunications by Arthur C. Clarke
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المفوضية الأوروبية - بيان صحفي
جدول الأعمال الرقمي
نيلي كروس تعين كارل تيودور تسو جوتنبرج لتعزيز حرية الإنترنت في العالم Read the full entry
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Viele Bürger haben die Mühe auf sich genommen und auf die Information über meine Einladung an Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg reagiert, mir im Rahmen unserer “Freiheit im Internet (No Disconnect)”-Strategie zuzuarbeiten: Über Twitter, durch offene Briefe sowie durch ausführliche Kommentare auf diesem Blog. Leider kann ich nicht auf jede Reaktion gesondert antworten obwohl ich alle sehr ernst nehme. Ich bin froh, dass das Internet eine so schnelle und vielfältige Rückmeldung ermöglicht und ich möchte auf demselben Wege antworten. Read the full entry
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You may recall that a few months ago I visited Nairobi, Kenya. While I was there I checked out some of the amazing projects that relate to the crucial role of ICT and development. I was really impressed with the ability of ICT to open up new opportunities – even in the poorest areas of the developing world. Ahead of the European Development Days, here’s a cool video showing some of what I learned there.
You can also watch on my YouTube channel a couple of shorter videos, also based on the same trip: the first about e-Learning – how ICT is used to train medical professionals in a country plagued by meagre resources, malaria and HIV; and a second about how ICT is expanding horizons in even the poorest schools.
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Imagine we had a resource available that could stimulate new innovations, a market worth tens of billions of euros, and increase the transparency and governance of public life.
We do – it’s the data held by Europe’s public institutions. And today I announced legal proposals to unlock this treasure trove. Benefiting not just web entrepreneurs, but journalists, academics, anyone who has a smartphone or uses public services.
The test site for the Commission's own data portal - going live 2012
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Es gab sehr viel Interesse an meiner Ankündigung einer “No-Disconnect” Strategie, um Internetfreiheit in der Welt zu verbessern. Insbesondere gab es auch einiges Interesse an meiner Entscheidung, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg zu bitten, mir dabei zu helfen.
Menschenrechte, dazu gehört auch das Recht auf Meinungs- und Kommunikationsfreiheit, spielen in der EU eine große Rolle – ob offline oder online. Read the full entry
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There’s been a huge amount of interest in my announcement of a “no disconnect” strategy, to improve internet freedom around the world. In particular, there has been a lot of interest in my choice to invite Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to assist me with this work.
Human Rights, including the right to communicate freely, runs through everything we do here in the EU. Online communications is no different. Read the full entry
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I was very pleased to read recently about the promising results of a programme in the UK which shows the enormous potential if we integrate ICT into health care more deeply. The figures from the study are incredible: showing telehealth, used correctly, can deliver a 20% reduction in emergency admissions, 14% reduction in bed days, an 8% reduction in tariff costs and an incredible 45% reduction in mortality rates. That’s impressive stuff. Imagine what this could mean if we could do it at European level.
Best of all, the study suggests that these telehealth results can be transferred to other locations – and this transferability to a national and a European scale is just what we’re looking for in the European Innovation Partnership on active and healthy ageing.
With the UK pilot being such a success and with the first deployment phase – to 50,000 people – now over, the UK’s next step is to deploy nationwide to three million at-risk patients. This large-scale commitment should deliver large-scale results.
Ultimately, this shows more than ever that innovative solutions, with technology and ICTs fully integrated into care services, can make the lives of terminally ill patients better. And help patients with care needs lead a normal life.
eHealth is undoubtedly delivering savings and radically reducing mortality rates. But such a large-scale deployment can only be achieved if all stakeholders work together: governments working with industry, and with social care and professional partners.
Innovation delivering better lives for people – this is just the type of radical change we need!
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Tomorrow is the International Day of People with a Disability; yesterday was its European equivalent. So now is a good time for me to talk about what Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can do to help the 80 million Europeans with a disability.
For people with disabilities, does modern information and communications technology help – or hinder? Read the full entry
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