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Subject: Information Society Newsroom Update - 21/09/2004







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 (21 October 2004)

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) 

Workshop on personalisation and user profile management 

Sophia Antipolis, France



As ICT usage becomes an integral part of many people's lives, users expect to be able to personalise a product or service to meet their individual needs and will no longer accept "one size fits all" products and services. Personalisation can range from simple cosmetic factors such as custom ring-tones to the complex tailoring of the presentation of a shopping web site to a user's personal interests and their previous purchasing behaviour. Behind every instance of personalisation is a "user profile" that stores details of the user, their preferences and other information that can be used to deliver to the user an experience that is tailored to their individual requirements. An ETSI Specialist Task Force on "User Profile Management" is addressing all of the above issues and will provide guidance to assist ICT product and service designers to make it easy for users to manage their user profiles.

	

	

									

								

						

						

		

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European Commission announces 20 European Information 

Society Technology Prize winners  (20 September 2004)



Twenty winners of the European Information Society Technologies (IST) Prize 2004 were selected by the European Commission on 17 September 2004. The winners will each receive ? 5,000 and will be invited to exhibit their products in the European IST Prize Winners Village at the 2004 IST Event in The Hague from 15-17 November. The IST Prize is Europe?s most distinguished award for groundbreaking IST products. It is organised by Euro-CASE with the support and sponsorship of the IST Programme of the European Commission.

	

	

									

								

						

		

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United States and European Commission hold Information 

Society Dialogue  (17 September 2004)



At the September 17, 2004, meeting in Brussels of the annual Information Society Dialogue (ISD), officials from the United States and the Directorate General for the Information Society and other services of the European Commission (EC) pledged continued cooperation in the area of telecommunications and information society issues, including on international matters of common interest for both the United States and the European Union.

	

	

									

								

						







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http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/cal.cfm



				





*** 23 - 24 September 2004

Second Mobile Communications Seminar

Brussels, Belgium



This Second Mobile Communications Seminar on "Health, Environment and Society. Best Practice Exchanges between EU Member States" follows the January 2004 Conference. It aims to contribute towards Europe-wide science-based public policy and regulation on health and electromagnetic field(EMF) in order to ensure safety for everybody and improve public information. Commissioner Figel' will deliver a speech to this open and interactive Seminar.





	



*** 28 - 29 September 2004

IMST 2004 - 4th European Workshop on Innovative Mass 

Storage Technologies



Aachen, Germany



This workshop provides a forum to gather specialists from all areas of mass storage technologies and emerging nonvolatile solid state memories. A strong interaction of industrial and academic specialists is encouraged in

this medium sized workshop, providing opportunities to people with different backgrounds to gain a deeper and

broader understanding of the field.





	



*** 30 September 2004

"Brain gain ? the instruments"



The Hague, Netherlands



If Europe is to remain a competitive and dynamic knowledge society, it needs more highly educated people. In fact, more than our own higher education institutions can deliver. Therefore, keeping Europe attractive for international partners in science and applied sciences is a dear necessity. Some European countries are well aware of the global competition for talented people. However, Europe as a whole has just started to develop instruments for that competition. But how do these instruments perform?

The conference offers an opportunity to discuss the effectiveness of these instruments, to propose new instruments and national policies, and to formulate recommendations for the existing EU instruments.





	

				

	



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