A peaceful revolution has changed the world as we knew it until the mid-1990s. The availability of almost any information throughout large parts of the world affected the way the economy and the global fight for power work. But it has also confronted Europe with new challenges, brought about new risks for privacy and excluded large parts of the population from the core of social processes.

Wissenschaftler aus der Grenzregion wollen das Sprachenlernen
vereinfachen - EU fördert Projekt mit einer Million Euro
Computerlinguisten entwickeln gemeinsam mit Phonetikern,
Fremdsprachenexperten und Fachleuten auf dem Gebiet der Künstlichen
Intelligenz ein neues E-Learning-Konzept für Deutsch und Französisch.
Das zwei Millionen Euro teure Projekt mit dem Titel Allegro (Adaptive
Language Learning technology for the Greater Region) [...]

Last week, the Lisbon  Council hosted one of my favourite events ever, The 2010 Innovation Summit. It was what an event on innovation should be: open to new ideas, collaborative and, well, simply different. Intellectually, the discussions were underpinned by a new e-brief we launched at the occasion, entitled Wikinomics and the Era of Openness: [...]

Source : http://www.archive17.fr/ …Mais qu’entend-on ou que faut-il entendre par archivage, conservation, dématérialisation, cycle de vie du document, risque de non-disponibilité des documents, diplomatique, original, système d’archivage électronique, horodatage, etc. ? Marie-Anne Chabin vous propose son Nouveau glossaire de l’archivage….

After one month of holidays, I just got back into the European affairs today. First thing in the morning, I checked EurActiv.com to read the latest articles and analysis about my favourite theme: ICT. And, oh, surprise, I saw that the web portal dedicated to the EU had been revamped (once again).
Duplicate content, an important SEO [...]

English Version Source: http://greatemancipator.com/2010/03/09/d… (The Great E-mancipator, 09-03-2010) Le “W3C e-government interest group” vient de publier European E-participation Summary November 2009 “L’étude sur la disponibilité de services pour le développement de la participation en ligne dans l’UE” est destinée à…

Meine Erwartungen an die eSkills Week der DG Enterprise und Industry waren wahrscheinlich viel zu hoch.
Dies wird der Grund sein, warum ich von dieser Veranstaltung leider mehr als enttäuscht war. Dies bezieht sich sowohl auf die Sichtbarkeit in EU-Kreisen als auch auf die Anzahl der Veranstaltungen. Es ist selbstverständlich möglich, dass außerhalb Brüssels in dieser [...]

How Can You Improve Your Blogging?
When it comes to the web, being found by the search engines and read by visitors, the title of a blog post is very important. On the one hand, a title needs to pull in the visitors to make them want to read. This is a very important skill to [...]

English Version Le rapport (study) pour le développement de l’interopérabilité entre administations, monde des affaires et citoyens. Un titre un peu abscon mais pour un thème important. Publié par IDABC de la Commission européenne. Lire plus sur http://www.epractice.eu/en/news/307837 Informations complémentaires:…

EnEnglish Version NuNuméro 306, 22 février 2010 Source: http://www.headstar.com/egb2010/306.html · First social media officer for UK council · ‘Quality risk’ for free mapping data · Don’t broadcast, engage, MPs told · e-Petitions policy becomes political football · Twitter - help…

Nea say écrivait il y a quelques semaines que l’accès à Internet était un droit fondamental, bien plus il était un bien de première nécessité. C’est ce que confirme une enquête menée par BBC World Service
Les gens sont fascinés par la disponibilité incroyable d’informations à partir de l’Internet : quatre personnes  sur cinq dans le monde [...]

At her speech to the Lisbon Council’s 2010 Innovation Summit last week, the EU’s highly charismatic and enthusiastic Chief Innovation Officer, Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn laid out her vision of transforming Europe into an “I-conomy”, connecting and speeding up innovation all along the whole policy chain from research to retail, building a functional single market for [...]

On Friday last week I had the pleasure of attending a Lisbon Council event on the subject of innovation. I can’t lie, it was a fascinating event with some excellent speakers and interventions.
However, I don’t want to dwell on the content. Instead, I’d like to recall a conversation I had in the coffee break.
One of [...]

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a tool designed for the digital communication and presentation of financial and business data. It has been developed to allow users throughout the world to easily access timely accurate and relevant financial information from both world-wide and local organisations. However, although internal use and basic forms of digital reporting [...]

English Version Mardi 2 mars 2010 « Electronic Frontier Foundation » publie un guide sur les droits des lecteurs de livres numériques : « Digital Books and Your Rights : A Checklist for Readers ». Le guide, composé d’une liste…

A while back I and a number of others were blogging about how a very light, bottom-up usage of Web2-style tools and techniques (bloggingportal, delicious, tagging, google alerts, etc.) could help build links between national and EU online discussions and develop the slowly emerging European public space.
The importance of this was brought home to me [...]