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…
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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…
A few ACTA notes
fter speaking with people in or close to the negotiations, European Commission and Spanish Presidency of the EU, this is some of what I have gathered despite dealing with very tight-lipped people: 1. The negotiations are not going that well…
Remarks from floor at MDG conference at EP
Thank you Michael Cashman MEP for organizing this important event on the Millenium Development Goals. As others have said we have to get as far as we can on the money we have, especially to provide more access to essential…
The broad threats of ACTA
ACTA THREATENS: DEMOCRACY: ACTA aims to create a new model of global governance that bypasses the normal procedures of multilateral international institutions, the European Parliament and national legislatures.
“Piratería digital” y pérdida de empleo
Cuatro mitos y realidades acerca de las descargas ilegales en la Unión Europea 1. Una metodología burda y no científica de la industria de entrenimiento de EE.UU.
JOB LOSSES IN EUROPE AND ” ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS”
JOB LOSSES IN EUROPE AND ” ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS”: MYTHS AND REALITY 1. IT IS GROSSLY FALSE TO DIRECTLY RELATE THE NUMBER OF PIRATED DOWNLOADS WITH NET JOB LOSSES IN EUROPE. Studies that blame Internet downloads for massive job losses reflect…
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…
ACTA campaign rolls on in the EU
The almost unanimous approval of a European Parliament resolution critical of ACTA (http://bit.ly/da3Mso) last Wednesday seems to have taken the EC and some member states by surprise. Now according to our informations they are organizing the counter-attack and the future…
Should you be concerned about ACTA? These people are.
Privacy and data protection “Intellectual property must be protected, but it should not be placed above individuals’ rights to privacy and data protection.” Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), issued a report on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), claiming…