If Internet users are to be truly free to choose whatever software and applications they desire to use, we need an established norm for open standards as a prerequisite for both consumer friendliness and easy market innovation in an fair,…
Category: Open Standards
Sample letter to European Commission on Open Standards
Dear Commissioner (Tajani, Almunia, Barnier or Kroes): As public interest citizen organizations (or individual) we are writing to you to express our concern over the content of the EU Digital Agenda that shall be presented in late April. According to…
SOS Open Standards in EU digital agenda
STOP THE ELIMINATION OF OPEN STANDARDS FROM THE EU DIGITAL AGENDA Please write to Commissioners Almunia, Barnier, Tajani and Kroes demanding: 1. Policies and funding promoting openness in the ICT market. 2. Energetic policies in the public sphere in favour…
Digital Commissioner Kroes proposes new EU policy of open standards
AN IMPORTANT POLICY PAPER, A Digital Agenda for Europe –?A policy for smart growth and innovation in a digital society, HAS BEEN LEAKED OF WHICH AN EXCERPT IS BELOW. DIGITAL AGENDA COMMISSIONER KROES HAS PROPOSED A SERIOUS MOVE OF THE…