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INFORMATION SOCIETY NEWSROOM UPDATE
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--------------------------------------- Economy and Work
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-- SPEECH
Erkki Liikanen
Innovation and Opportunities in the Enlarging Europe
29 January 2004
Speech at the 24 Hours Management Conference in Copenhagen (Denmark) on 29
January 2004



--------------------------------------- IS Industry
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en.htm

-- SPEECH
Erkki Liikanen
IST and Innovation Keeping the Leadership in Mobile Communications
29 January 2004
Speech at the Inauguration of the Center for TeleInFrastructure (CTIF) in
Aalborg (Denmark) on 29 January 2004



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-- NEWS ARTICLE
European potentials emphasised at Workshop on Grid Middleware (28/01/04)
Europe is well positioned for building up its lead in grid computing but
needs to ensure a continued dynamic environment that stimulates innovation
coupled with more efficient approaches for commercial exploitation. That was
the main message at the Workshop entitled "Delivery of industrial-strength
Grid Middleware", held by Information Society Directorate-General on 21
January 2004. The workshop brought together key industrial players and
representatives from research networks and centres to discuss the way
forward for European software for Grids. Grid Systems - the sharing of
information and processing resources between networked computers- are
considered to be potentially one of the major growth areas in the future
software and service industry. The European Union has made it one of the
strategic objectives in the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority
of the latest research program - the 6th Framework Programme. High-quality
middleware is a crucial component in grids as the layer that links together
sharable resources and applications on different computers.
The aim of the workshop was to discuss how EU actions and research can
better support the development of middleware to run distributed applications
with low installation and maintenance costs, which is reliable and secure
enough for businesses and industry to exploit. The need to address
industrialisation of grid software was stressed at the workshop. Several
speakers highlighted the potential benefits of open source software
development of grids and participants underlined the need to allow
co-existence of different licensing schemes to maximise innovation. The
high-speed European Research infrastructure was also seen as providing a
possibility to test and deploy Grid software. The importance of standards in
the international context was discussed and the role of industry was
recognised as paramount in this respect. Active strategies for multilateral
co-operation with third countries, either developing or industrialised, were
as well deemed to be required. The workshop participants recommended that
the Commission launches working groups addressing the issues identified
through, for example, specific support actions to be submitted in response
to the next IST Call for proposals.





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-- 2 - 3 February 2004
OECD Workshop on Spam
Brussels
This OECD workshop on spam is hosted by the European Commission, Information
Society Directorate-General. It will be opened by Commissioner Liikanen and
aims to explore the growing problem of spam, with a focus on the
international dimension.


-- 4 - 6 February 2004
13th NID Workshop
Athens, Greece
The workshop will gather participants in the projects funded within the
Nanotechnology Information Devices (NID) pro-active initiative. The workshop
will stage the review meetings of 20 projects in the NID initiative, plenary
presentations from invited speakers, and working group meetings on advanced
research topics in nanotechnology and nanoelectronics. The NID initiative is
part of the Information Society Technologies priority of the 5th Framework
Programme of the European Union. It focuses on the application of a broad
range of nano-scale technologies to information processing and on the
perspectives for replacing mainstream approaches, such as CMOS, when they
will reach the expected physical limits for miniaturisation.

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-- 5 February 2004
IDC eGovernment Conference 2004
London, UK





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