 |
 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Europe's Information
Society
Newsroom
Update
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- - - - [
Latest News ] - - - -
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/newsbytheme.cfm
PRESS
RELEASE
European Charter for Film Online endorsed by major
industry
players (23 May 2006)At the Cannes Film Festival, major
representatives of the film and content industry, of Internet service providers
and of telecom operators from the EU and the U.S. endorsed on 23 May the
European Film Online Charter that they had jointly developed under the auspices
of the European Commission. This Charter - the first of its kind in the world -
identifies the preconditions for enabling content and infrastructure providers
to make film online services a commercial success. The Charter will serve as
reference for future commercial agreements as well as for a broader Content
Online policy of the European Commission.
PRESS RELEASE
Europe Day
at Cannes: Slovenian director Blaz Kutin
wins "New Talent" award (23 May
2006)In the presence of Culture and Audiovisual Ministers from the EU Member
States, the President of the Cannes Festival, cinema professionals and
technologists meeting to celebrate Europe Day 2006 at the International Cannes
Film Festival, Blaz Kutin, Slovenian scriptwriter and director received on 22
May the "New talent in the European Union" award from Viviane Reding,
Commissioner for Information Society and Media.
NEWS
ARTICLE
Cannes Declaration 2006 - "European films go global" (23 May 2006)At
a meeting convened by Viviane Reding, member of the European Commission
responsible for the Information Society and Media, and Gilles Jacob, President
of the Cannes Festival, the European audiovisual ministers of the European Union
present at Cannes, together with the European Commissioner adopted a declaration
in which they identify a certain number of needs and actions to be put in
place.
Declaration in French: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/doc/media/cannes_declaration_fr.pdf
EVENT
ANNOUNCEMENT
HealthGrid 2006
7 June 2006 - 9 June 2006 Valencia,
SpainThe event offers an open forum for the integration of Grid Technologies and
its Applications in the Biomedical, Medical and Biological domains, in view to
pave the path to an International Research Area in HealthGrid. Grid middleware
and Grid applications developers, Biomedical and Health Informatics users and
security and policy makers are encouraged to participate in a set of
multidisciplinary
sessions.
Subscription Information
This is the Newsroom Update of Europe's Information
Society: Thematic Portal (http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/menu.cfm)
- a 'one stop shop' to all European Information Society policies, activities,
news and more from across the European Commission.
An archive of all Newsroom
Updates (http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/newsletterarchive.cfm)
is now available.
You may unsubscribe or broaden your subscription by going
to
Your Profile (http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/userprofile.cfm).
Please
do not reply to this email address - contact details for all organisations
behind the Portal can be found on the
Portal Contacts (http://europa.eu.int/information_society/help/contact/index_en.htm)
page.
- - - -
[ Links ] - - - -
Your Profile
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/userprofile.cfm
Information
Society Newsroom
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom
Information
Society Portal
http://europa.eu.int/information_society
Portal
Contacts
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/help/contact