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European governments failing on Web accessibility
News The report titled eAccessibility of public sector services in the European Union, was commissioned for the UK presidency of the EU to evaluate eAccessibility and establish the scope of public policy towards the issue.
[November 25, 2005, 8:50]
EC report backs open source for government
News However, the increasing attention paid to open-source software by the European Commission and by individual European governments is likely to influence decisions taken elsewhere in the world, where the European Union provides significant amounts...
[July 8, 2002, 14:31]
EC refuses to relax 3G rules
News The EC is also concerned that health fears could hamper the rollout of 3G networks, and wants European governments to put more effort into reassuring the public that mobile handsets and masts are safe.
[June 12, 2002, 15:38]
Barrett points to France in Encryption lesson
News Like the US, European governments are worried that powerful encryption technology could be used by terrorists and criminals to shield their activities and intercept confidential information. More specifically, he urged governments across Europe...
[September 25, 1998, 16:45]
EC pledges to promote open standards
News The European Commission has pledged to support open standards and promote interoperability, to avoid vendor lock-in of European governments to any one technology. The critics argued that this could lock governments into using Microsoft products in...
[June 11, 2008, 17:31]
European regulation fails to solve broadband problem
News Ebone's chief operating officer Duncan Lewis said the current situation is unacceptable.eEurope is under threat due to the local broadband bottleneck and European governments are ineffective in delivering on their commitments," he said.
[May 3, 2001, 11:30]
Public sector IT spending climb to continue
News Western European governments will invest $49bn (£27bn) in IT in 2009, compared to $38bn last year, predicts analyst firm IDC. Other areas where governments will be looking to spend money is back-office re-engineering packages offering traditional...
[August 3, 2005, 16:50]
Ira Magaziner: U.S. at odds with EU Net privacy directive
News While European governments are undeniably concerned about providing safeguards for personal data in cyberspace, they also recognise that any EU-wide policy that is seriously at odds with U.S.policy could mean damage to their economies, he said.
[August 26, 1998, 6:44]
Europe to push open source for e-government
News Open-source software is increasingly seen by European governments as a way of encouraging local software industries, because it is not owned by any one entity, and thus theoretically places small, local developers on a level playing field with...
[July 21, 2003, 13:34]
How Norway is tackling Internet regulation
News SAFT, which stands for Safety Awareness Facts and Tools, is something of an experiment in Internet self-regulation and comes as European national governments and the commission itself are weighing whether additional laws are necessary.
[November 7, 2003, 13:55]
Echelon: Government spying breeds business distrust
News Duncan Campbell's Scientific and Technical Options Assessment (STOA) April 2000 report to the European Union entitled Interception Capabilities 2000 states that those governments implicated in Echelon routinely monitor commercial communications.
[June 30, 2000, 10:38]
Will Euro taxes hinder Net growth?
News In their testimony, the two men offered their views on how European governments might be able to level the playing field with American competitors by assessing Internet taxes. Asked how European governments would be able to find and charge...
[December 15, 1999, 9:02]
France passes controversial antipiracy bill
News EU governments from terminating a user's internet access without a court order. Opponents of the legislation also fear that it will pave the way for governments to violate its citizens' personal privacy rights.
[May 13, 2009, 11:06]
EU urged to rethink e-government
News European governments should take care in how they set up e-payments systems, it adds. However, the involvement of the respective governments should be technically neutral and be limited to correcting a level playing field and avoid unnecessary...
[September 22, 2004, 11:20]
Businesses reap rewards of e-government
News Stanislas Cozon, vice president, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, said in a statement: "The results show that in the past year significant progress has been made by European governments in providing strong online services around income-generation.
[February 7, 2003, 13:52]
Data protection laws still face uphill battle
News The European Commission on Friday issued its first assessment of the 1995 Data Protection Directive, arguing that data protection legislation has achieved many of its aims, but admitting it still faces steep opposition from businesses and non-EU...
[May 19, 2003, 16:24]
France Telecom threatens EC over roaming clampdown
News Didier Lombard, chief executive of France Telecom, said that the EC's proposals were reminiscent of Communist governments in Eastern Europe. The industry, with the apparent support of the French and UK governments, is fighting Reding's proposal to...
[December 19, 2006, 16:01]
CeBIT 98: Gerstner Keynote P3 - Responsibility
News IBM is working with the U.S.government, with the European Union and governments around the world to support an unrestricted market for encryption products that interoperate globally. First, people must have inexpensive access to the...
[March 19, 1998, 16:38]
Is Microsoft losing ground to Linux?
News The European Union awarded on Thursday a $249,000 (£160,700) contract to UK-based system-integrator Netproject to study the feasibility of moving the information systems of several member countries' governments to the Linux operating system from...
[November 4, 2002, 12:11]
EC joins growing debate on future of 3G
News Experts have questioned whether they can afford to pay for infrastructure costs given the huge bill for licenses and there has been calls for governments to pay back some of the money they have claimed from the auction of spectrum.
[March 21, 2001, 6:12]
