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"In its Brussels meeting of December 1993, the European Council requested that a report be prepared for its meeting on 24-25 June 1994 in Corfu by a group of prominent persons on the specific measures to be taken into consideration by the Community and the Members States for information infrastructures. On the basis of this report, a program identifying precise procedures for action and the necessary means will be defined.

The report is wholly the product of the group of prominent persons. It does not necessarily represent the views of the European Commission or the European Council and is distributed under the condition that it is not modified in any way."


Europe and the global information society
Recommendations to the European Council

Contents

Chapter I: The information society - new ways of living and working together

  • A revolutionary challenge to decision makers
  • Partnership for jobs
  • If we seize the opportunity
  • A common creation or a still fragmented Europe ?
  • What we can expect for...
  • The social challenge
  • Time to press on
  • An Action Plan
  • New markets in Europe's information society
  • Chapter IIA market-driven revolution
  • A break with the past
  • Ending monopoly
  • Enabling the market
  • Towards a positive outcome
  • Chapter IIICompleting the agenda

  • Protection of intellectual property rights (IPR)
  • Privacy
  • Electronic protection (encryption), legal protection and security
  • Media ownership
  • The role of competition policy
  • Technology
  • Chapter IVThe building blocks of the information society

  • The opportunity for the Union - strengthening its existing networks and accelerating the creation of new ones
  • New basic services are needed
  • Blazing the trail - ten applications to launch the information society
  • Application One: Teleworking
  • Application Two: Distance learning
  • Application Three: A network for universities and research centres
  • Application Four: Telematic services for SMEs
  • Application Five: Road traffic management
  • Application Six: Air traffic control
  • Application Seven: Healthcare networks
  • Application Eight: Electronic tendering
  • Application Nine: Trans-european public administration network
  • Application Ten: City information highways
  • Chapter VFinancing the information society a task for the private sector

    Chapter VIFollow-up

    An Action Plan - summary of recommendations


    This report is available as a PostScript document from the RARE document store.


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