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The European e-business interoperability forum
kicks off its activities on 18 February with the aim of lifting
barriers to e-business take-up in Europe.

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 EU's e-government-related activities are "very fragmented", says a new analysis to be unveiled at the forthcoming e-Forum Summit in Valencia, Spain.

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

Eastern Europe in general has overtaken several Southern and Northern European countries in ICT use in the public sector and e-government, a new survey reveals.

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.

The three top prize winners for the eEurope Awards for eGovernment Applications were announced on 7 July by Information Society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen.

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

The Italian city of Como will host an eGovernment Ministerial Conference and Exhibition on 7-8 July.

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).

Under a partnership agreement, TeleCities and Deloitte & Touche have joined forces to create an European eDatabase for promoting eGovernment across the Union.

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.

EU Member States have made a lot of progress in providing online public services, but more for businesses than for citizens. This is the conclusion of a benchmarking study undertaken by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young on behalf of the European Commission.

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.

E-government: large potential still to be tapped While many companies already take the internet for granted, the state and particularly public administrations are still in the process of finding ways to tap the potential offered by information and communications technologies (ICT). …

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".

Technicalities: E-Government for E-Europe With their sights set on EU accession, countries across the region have high ambitions for e-government. Unfortunately, they are missing much bigger problems at ground level. Among the many commitments made by would-be members of the EU is the creation of e-government …

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.

The 'Regulating & Facilitating eBusiness' conference on 25-26 June offered a review of the key legal and policy aspects affecting e-business.

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.

A study, carried out for the Commission by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in April 2002, shows the availability and interactivity of public services on the Internet have risen by 10% points to 55% since October 2001.

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.

55 Members of the European Parliament have tabled a motion for a Resolution to introduce e-democracy in the EU.

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).