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,…
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…
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.