More than twenty years of European policy for the development of the information society

The policy adopted by the European Union to boost the progress of the information society starts with the “Delors White Paper” and the “Bangemann Report”. During the first stage, and despite the supposedly social nuances, the liberalisation of telecommunications prevailed over any other aspect. A gr...

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Main Authors: Claudio Feijóo, José Luis Gómez-Barroso, Edvins Karnitis
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Language:English
Published: Netcom Association 2007-03-01
Series:Netcom
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/netcom/2389
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description The policy adopted by the European Union to boost the progress of the information society starts with the “Delors White Paper” and the “Bangemann Report”. During the first stage, and despite the supposedly social nuances, the liberalisation of telecommunications prevailed over any other aspect. A greater broad-mindedness, and thus more actions, came from the eEurope programme, developed during the first five years of the century. With the start of 2006, it has been replaced by a new strategy, baptised i2010. However, this is not the change that can prove most decisive. The vision of a Europe driven by its incorporation to the information society has been thinned down after the modification of the Lisbon strategy. This diversion of the course that had been taken in the past represents a worrying backward step, which is aggravated when considering the situation described in a not so encouraging preview of the results of eEurope.
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title More than twenty years of European policy for the development of the information society
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European Union
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European policy
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