I don’t think we could make the Digital Agenda succeed without the active involvement of all those people who are out there and interested in making it happen – stakeholders and citizens. To get them together, last year we held the first ever Digital Agenda Assembly: which I found very refreshing, with lots of participation and lots of ideas.
But this year I want to do things slightly differently. If you really want to “talk digital”, then you need to talk digitally, with an online forum too – and it’s now open for contributions!
We will still have an “Assembly” so people can come and give their views physically (the Assembly is on 21-22 June in Brussels). But with an online forum too, we can get a wider range of people joining in and contributing – and also make our real-life event smaller and more focused, giving us more bang for our euro.
We’ve identified 9 key topics – converged media; broadband; e-commerce; social media; cloud; data; security; innovation and entrepreneurship; and jobs and skills – that we want to focus on finding the answers to. So if you’ve got views on any of those topics, then please log on and share them.
My team and I will be actively following and participating in that debate. And we will take all the contributions to the physical Digital Assembly meeting, and that in turn will feed in to the review of the Digital Agenda that I am planning for towards the end of the year.
If you are interested, then get online and get engaged at http://daa.ec.europa.eu/. Or comment on Twitter with the hashtag #da12. And please discuss, contribute, and shape the work we’re doing.
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It says, “site under maintenance’. Perhaps it needs some work before you announce it?
Sorry if you experienced difficulties – it’s up and running.
I think it is wrong to open up yet another platform for discussions. There are already many possible ways to engage – why spent time, money and energy for a new special forum. I also don’t see any credible bargain in participating in the debates there – what’s the added value for those who participate?
The Commission should stop trying to create digital fora for debate and instead participate in online debates that are already taking place on a multitude of platforms with millions of users.
Ron,
I agree it’s important not to cut ourselves off from debates on other platforms, and having a specific online space for the DAA doesn’t prevent us from also participating in other debates. We do that with you pretty regularly, as far as I can see, on Twitter, for example. This is just another tool in the box of an evolving process of online engagement. Let’s see how it works out.
Thanks
David Ringrose, DG INFSO Communications Unit
This is a great initiative on your part. I just signed up to contribute to the online discussion. Your Digital Agenda should be one everyone’s agenda (also on those of your colleagues) as the online world will get the off line economy back on its feet again.
Just stopping by to say, I have recently sign up on the discussion site and hope that many more people will become aware it - perhaps a bit more tweeting about it might be a good move, as the timeline is so short