[GSDI Legal Socioecon] EU Commissioner-designate for Digital Agenda presents priorities and actions

[Roger Longhorn]

*European Union. Commissioner-designate for Digital Agenda presents 
priorities and actions

*The Commissioner-designate for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes (Dutch), 
was recently questioned by the group coordinators of the European 
Parliament's industry, research and enterprise (ITRE) committee. Topics 
discussed at the meetings included aspects of net neutrality, protection 
of intellectual property rights in cyberspace, distribution of the 
digital dividend and ways to transform a patchwork of national online 
markets into a single one to improve the everyday life of European 
citizens.

During the hearing, Ms Kroes, set out the key issues she wants to work 
on during her mandate: development of information and communication 
technologies (ICT); providing safe and secure 100% broadband access; 
improvement of the computer skills among citizens; exercising open 
standards in the public sector and creating a truly single online market.
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Related Links:*
Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes´s written response to European 
Parliamentary hearing 
<http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/008-67217-013-01-03-901-20100113IPR67216-13-01-2010-2010-false/default_en.htm>
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/008-67217-013-01-03-901-20100113IPR67216-13-01-2010-2010-false/default_en.htm
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Related news items in IPR-Helpdesk: *
18/01/2010. European Union. Commissioner-designate on Innovation maps 
out concrete priorities and actions 
<http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/news/news_6841.en.xml.html>
http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/news/news_6841.en.xml.html
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Kind regards

Roger Longhorn
ral at alum.mit.edu