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Subject: Information Society Newsroom Update - 11/05/2004
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INFORMATION SOCIETY NEWSROOM UPDATE
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*** NEWS ARTICLE Connecting Europe at high speed: Commission takes stock of
national broadband strategies (11 May 2004) The number of people and businesses accessing the Internet at high speed has grown by more than 80% in the year to January 2004, says a new European Commission report. Broadband take-up is now faster in the EU than in the US with several Member States among the best performers around the globe. The EU15 Member States all have national broadband strategies in place and the new Member States will table theirs before the end of 2004. All Member States agree that progress should be market driven. Growth has been fastest in those countries where competition particularly from alternative networks has allowed a choice of providers and driven down prices. However, there remains a role for public authorities whenever markets do not deliver the necessary investment. National broadband strategies therefore aim at increasing coverage of under-served areas and steps to stimulate demand. The Report concludes that national approaches must be kept under review and updated during 2005, both to take account of new ways of delivering high speed access and to learn from good practice in other countries.
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http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/newsbytheme.cfm?tpa_id=2
*** EVENT (27 May 2004)
Conference : Fostering Structural Change: An
industrial policy for an enlarged Europe Brussels, Belgium Is there a process of deindustrialisation in the EU? Stakeholder conference organised by the Enterprise Directorate-General of the European Commission.
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http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/cal.cfm
*** 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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