- In what ways do you see ICT and broadband promoting growth and competitiveness, especially in order to emerge from the economic crisis?
- What steps are you taking to encourage the take-up of broadband in your country?
- What are the aims of national strategies for broadband that you have launched or that are in preparation?
- In what form should the European policy for information society and the media (post-i2010) incorporate the fight against the crisis and the potential of the ICT?
If this is what our ministers have to care about during a Council meeting, then maybe they should just join the desk officer on a coffee!
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Really Julian ! Are you not getting to be too harsh on what you call 'remnants of the EU presidency'?
In his last point: .....
§ In what form should the European policy for information society and the media incorporate the fight against the crisis and the potential of the ICT?......
Fight 'against crisis' is new , but 'fight against potential of ICT' is going on in Europe for quite a while,
lomg before CR got their shot at it :-)
Just from the top of my head: I recall, in 2005 city of Prague wanted to provide free WI-FI access to all, and that was shot down in Brussels, when the mobile operators asked for 'protection of their invesments' in CR. Competition is artificially limited by selling the bandwith to private companies, which then use them to generate obscene profits ... which they use to lobby for restrictions..
In fact, I don't attack the issue itself, I am attacking this paper with is so general and politically unambitious that I regard it as a waste of time.
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