Tag: egovernment

The European Court of Justice issued yesterday (24 November) a historic ruling establishing that member states cannot impose the filtering of the Internet for the purpose of preventing illegal downloads of copyrighted files.

A European Parliament committee may be at odds with the European Commission over online gambling, but it is possible to forge a compromise to the benefit of consumers, argues Khalid Ali from European Sports Security Association.

EU telecoms ministers took an important step towards diluting the market dominance of Microsoft's Office software on Monday (19 April) when they agreed to roll out online services using more interoperable document formats, according to Brussels-based competition lawyers.

EU ministers have declared their wish to implement e-Government services while the Commisison is improving its online presence.

The Parliament has launched its new web portal with a series of round table talks on the information society, the first of which was about ethical questions arising from the emergence of millions of weblogs.

An independent committee is looking into the alleged security flaws of an e-voting system set to be used for the next European and regional elections. The report is due out on 1 May.

A two-day seminar on e-democracy has marked the starting point in Europe's attempts to draw citizens closer to their governments using online technologies.

The European Commission revealed on 1 December the results of a large-scale survey on the use and quality of public government online services.

The first pan-European benchmarking study on e-government sites and service users will be made public in September.

The Commission welcomed on 9 July the pledge by 30 European ministers to accelerate the rollout of eGovernment; proposed new programme on cross-border interoperability.

Italy wants eGovernment to be a "top priority" for its six-month EU Presidency.

The Commission has proposed that Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey follow the 10 future EU members in joining the Union's programme for the exchange of data with EU Member States' administrations (IDA).

Microsoft will team up with Beijing for e-government developments now that China has signed up to participate in the US software company's Government Security Programme.

On 20 November, the Commission decided that from 1 January 2003 the administrations of nine more candidate countries will be able to exchange data with EU Member States' administrations.

The eGovernment conference held on 19-20 September concluded that e-government services must "cater for the EU's linguistic diversity" and be delivered "as close as possible to the customer".

According to a new report for the Commission, published in June 2002, EU administrations should share software on an open source licensing basis to cut soaring eGovernment information technology costs.

In a speech on 1 July the EU Presidency, on behalf of the EU, stated that the main topics on the agenda of the Summit should be e-government, e-learning and e-inclusion.

On 28 May the Commission presented an eEurope 2005 Action Plan, due to be adopted by the European Council in Seville on 21-22 June 2002.

The European Commission has adopted a draft Council framework decision on "attacks against information systems". The proposal addresses new forms of criminal activity against information systems, such as hacking, viruses and denial of service attacks (DoS).

The European Commission announced on 5 March the set up of a secure communications infrastructure for information exchange among European public administrations.

Shortly after the adoption by the Council of Europe of the first treaty on cybercrime, an EU seminar on 27 November discussed cybercrime, focusing on the issue of data retention. The issue has received extra new attention since the events of 11 September in New York and Washington.