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Subject: Information Society Newsroom Update - 05/05/2004
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INFORMATION SOCIETY NEWSROOM UPDATE
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*** NEWS ARTICLE One step closer to ".eu" (5 May 2004) The Commission Regulation laying down public policy rules concerning the implementation and functions of the .eu Top Level Domain has been published in the EU Official Journal. The .eu domain is intended to provide a European Internet identity for companies and citizens, comparable to .org or .com.
This regulation is a further step towards the commercial availability of ".eu" names. It sets out public policy rules for a wide range of issues including eligibility, requests for domain name registration, accreditation of registrars, provisions for languages, reservation of geographical and geopolitical names, registration of names corresponding to prior rights, and a dispute resolution procedure.
The contract with the .eu Registry should be signed in the near future and a four month sunrise period in which names can be registered that correspond to prior rights or public bodies should start later this year. Pre-registration or reservation of .eu domain names is not yet possible. Action has already been taken by authorities in some Member States against organisations that have been making false or misleading claims to be able to pre-register names for the .eu domain
The remaining procedural steps for ".eu" to become operational are set out on the website, where you'll also find a list of "Frequently Asked Questions", additional background information and a copy of the Official Journal.
*** NEWS ARTICLE eGovernment : "Good Practice" tools (5 May 2004) On April 26, the Good Practice Framework on eGovernment was launched. A temporary demo site has been built up to show what the framework could be offering. It includes a description template, a set of assessment criteria, transfer tools and a database in which good practice cases are cathegorized according to their country, their theme, their user target and so on. The objective of the action is to establish a framework to facilitate the exchange of good practices, their transfer when appropriate and learning from experiences at local, regional, national, European and international level in order to foster strong commitment and continuity in the practical implementation of eGovernment.
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*** 13 May 2004 Creating a dynamic e-business environment - Benchmarking
the best eBusiness policy initiatives in Europe Barcelona, Spain The workshop is addressed to policy makers and SME support organisations with practical experience in training and coaching SMEs in the e-business field. The goal is to discuss the policy challenges ahead and to better understand what the success factors to bring SMEs to e-business are, as well as how to efficiently accompany them in the adoption of e-business.
The main objectives of the workshop are:
-To discuss the articulation between e-business, innovation and entrepreneurship;
-To identify good policy practices to accompany SMEs adopting e-business;
-To present ways of measuring the impact of e-business policies. Email: [log in to unmask]
*** 13 - 14 May 2004 The PRELUDE Challenge - Clustering Digital Innovation in
EU Regions Ennis, Ireland This conference presents the PRELUDE project and its nine Digital Regions, a major European effort to boost regional applied research and innovation through public-private partnerships. It will also showcase the Irish experience, particularly Ireland’s effort to modernise its economy and the public sector through a visionary strategy making use of the opportunities offered by the Information Society.
*** 14 May 2004 AMI atWork Communities workshop
Budapest, Hungary This workshop is organised by the New Work Environments unit of the European Commission's Information Society Directorate-General, in close collaboration with the MOSAIC Specific Support Action and the Central and Southeast European Innovation Area initiative (CEIA).The objective of this workshop is to prepare the launch event of the AMI@Work communities and the IST Strategic Objective 'Applications and Services for the Mobile User and Worker' projects on 7-9 June 2004 in Brussels.
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