Digital agenda for Europe annual progress report 2011

Abstract

The Digital Agenda for Europe 20201, a European instrument to cover investment and research focus for the period 2010 to 2020, provides for specific effort to be invested in areas of ICT to enable and sustain European growth. The 2011 progress report2 has just been published, highlighting progress to date as well as setting on the next steps to be taken in the period 2012 and 2013 (the next 12 to 24 months). The SESERV deliverable D3.1: First Report on Social Future Internet Coordination Activities3 looked at the Digital Agenda in the context of societal challenges and trends, and how they may affect the Future Internet (FI). In addition, the SESERV Oxford Workshop6 in June 2011 and the SESERV Athens Workshop4 in January 2012, with participants from technology providers, social scientists, including economists, as well as policy makers, highlighted concerns and issues of various stakeholders in the light of how technology is developing. In this short report, we draw on the:

1 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm and associated documents.

2
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=7699&utm_campaign=isp&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=newsroom&utm_content=tpa-5

3 Available from http://www.seserv.org/publications/deliverables
4 http://www.seserv.org/fise-conversation/Outcome-of-the-SESERV-workshop-on-the-interplay-of-economics-and-technology

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ORCID for Mike Boniface: orcid.org/0000-0002-9281-6095

ORCID for Brian Pickering: orcid.org/0000-0002-6815-2938

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