INFORMATION POLICY: Europe

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EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Commission of the European Communities. Information Society Project Office.

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/Welcome.html

Commission of the European Communities. Information Society: Concepts, Work programme and examples of public and private initiatives.

n.d.

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/g7/backg/sntr-g7.html

Commission of the European Communities. Statement: Towards the Information Society.

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/backg/statemnt.html

Commission of the European Communities. The INFO2000 Programme.

URL: http://www2.echo.lu/info2000/infohome.html

ESPRIT.

URL: http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/home.html

Europe and the global information society. (Bangemann report.)

European Communities special report (Brussels, 26 May 1994).

"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 Member States for the infrastructures in the sphere of information. On the basis of this report, the Council will adopt an operational programme defining precise procedures for action and the necessary means."

URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Global/Multinational/GII/bangemann_report.summary

The European Information Society in Action.

Information Society Project Office.

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/backg/action95.html

Europe's Way to the Information Society: An Action Plan.

Followup to the Bangemann Report. Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament and to the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions. (COM(94) 347 final - Brussels, 19.07.1994)

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/backg/action.html

I'M Europe.

"Welcome to Information Market - EUROPE ! An initiative of Directorate-General XIII of the EC to provide the World Wide Web with information about Europe and the European electronic information market."

URL: http://www.echo.lu/

The Information Society Page.

Information Society Project Office. Note: this is an excellent site for primary source documents.

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/infosoc.html

Introduction to the Information Society - The European Way.

Information Society Project Office.

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/backg/brochure.html

White Paper on growth, competitiveness, and employment - The challenges and ways forward into the 21st century.

Commission of the European Communities. (COM(93) 700 final - Brussels, 5 December 1993)

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/backg/whitpaper/top.html

NATIONAL POLICIES

[DENMARK] Info-Society 2000.

Report from the Committee on the Information Society by the Year 2000. Ministry of Research. November 1994.

URL: http://www.fsk.dk/fsk/publ/info2000-uk/kolofon.html

[ICELAND] The Icelandic Government's Vision of the Information Society.

1997.

URL: http://www.stjr.is/framt/vision00.htm

[NETHERLANDS] A Vision for Acceleration. Working Plan for the Information Superhighway.

November 1995.

URL: http://www.minez.nl/nota/snelweg/englisch.htm

[NORWAY] The Norwegian Way to the Information Society - Bit by bit.

State Secretary Committee for IT. November 1995.

URL: http://odin.dep.no/html/nofovalt/offpub/utrednin/it/it-way/index.html

[SWEDEN] Swedish IT Commission.

URL: http://www.itkommissionen.se/english/eng.html

[UK] Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency.

URL: http://www.ccta.gov.uk/

[UK] Creating the Superhighways of the Future: Developing Broadband Communications in the UK.

URL: http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/dti/dticmd/dticmd.htm

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/europe/uk-csf.txt

[UK] Directory of UK Telecommunications Software Providers.

HMSO.

URL: http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/dti/telesoft/telecoms.htm

[UK] Information Superhighways - Opportunities for public sector applications in the UK.

May 1994.

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/europe/uk-is.txt

[UK] Superhighways for Education, a consultation paper on Broadband Communications.

April 1995.

URL: http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/dfee/supered/supered.htm

[UK] Superhighways for Education: The Way Forward.

November 1995.

URL: http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/dfee/supered2/supered.htm

ORGANIZATIONS

ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers Italy.

Associazione per la Libertà nella Comunicazione Elettronica Interattiva.

URL: http://w3.nexus.it/altri/alcei/

APEDANICA.

Asociacion para la Prevencion y Estudio de Delitos Abusos y Negligencias en Informatica y Comuncicaciones Avanzadas (Madrid, Spain).

URL: http://www.cita.es/apedanica/

CommUnity - Computer Communicators' Association.

Leeds, United Kingdom.

URL: http://www.community.org.uk/

DANTE.

URL: http://www.dante.org.uk/

Digitale Burgerbeweging Nederland.

Netherlands.

URL: http://www.db.nl/

TERENA - Trans Europe Research and Education Networking Association.

Netherlands.

URL: http://www.terena.nl/

ECHO - European Commission Host Organization.

URL: http://www2.echo.lu/home_echo.html

Electronic Frontier Ireland.

URL: http://www.efi.ie/

Electronic Frontier Norway.

URL: http://www.efn.no/

Privacy International.

London, England.

URL: http://www.privacy.org/pi/

RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens).

URL: http://www.ripe.net/

Terena Document Store.

Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association - was formed in October 1994 by the merger of RARE (Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne) and EARN (European Academic and Research Network).

URL: ftp://ftp.terena.nl

OTHER RELATED RESOURCES

EUROPA.

European Commission service offering information on the European Union's goals, institutions and policies.

URL: http://europa.eu.int/index.htm

The Information Society Glossary.

Published in the occasion of: The G7 Ministerial Conference, 25-26 February, 1995, Brussels. © ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels / Luxembourg, 1995.

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/g7/backg/glossary.html

The Information Super-Highway Bonn-Moscow.

Information Super-Highway Bonn-Moscow. This "Information Super-Highway" is a result of successful collaboration between the German National Research Centre for Computer Science (GMD) and Russian Academy of Science.

URL: http://www.ras.ru/local.docs/RASGMD_e.html