| Author (Corporate) | European Commission |
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| Series Title | COM |
| Series Details | (2012) 784 final (18.12.12) |
| Publication Date | 18/12/2012 |
| Content Type | Policy-making |
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Europe’s future sustainable growth and competitiveness depends to a large extent on its ability to embrace the digital transformation in all its complexity. Information and communication technology (ICT) is increasingly impacting all segments of society and the economy. The internet is empowering people to create and share their ideas, giving rise to new content, entrepreneurs and markets. ICT is the essential transformative technology that supports structural change in sectors like health care, energy, public services, and education. But the EU is not positioning itself well enough to benefit from these digital developments. It risks losing out in global competitiveness, economic growth and societal development. The Digital Single Market remains fragmented, with public service infrastructures and online commerce still being determined by national territories. Investment in public and industrial research, development and innovation is falling well short of the target. This Communication refocuses the Digital Agenda to better stimulate the digital economy through mutually enhancing and complementary measures in the following key areas: - Advancing the European borderless digital economy, creating the world's largest and richest digital single market for content and services, while fully guaranteeing consumer and creator's rights; - Speeding up public sector innovation enabled through the deployment of interoperable ICT and a better exchange and use of information; - Regaining world leadership for network services, by stimulating private investment in high-speed fixed and mobile broadband networks, enabled by legal predictability, improved planning and targeted private and public EU and national funding; - Fostering a secure and trustworthy internet environment for users and operators, based on strengthened European and international collaboration in responding to global risks; - Establishing a coherent framework and conditions for cloud computing services in Europe creating the world's largest cloud enabled ICT market; - Creating a favourable environment for transforming traditional business, and spurring innovative web-based ventures. Increase digital literacy and the proliferation of digital skills, to fill the gap between demand and supply of ICT professionals; - Implementing an ambitious strategic research and innovation policy for industrial competitiveness based on funding key enabling technologies. |
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| Source Link | Link to Main Source http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0784:FIN:EN:PDF |
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| Subject Categories | Business and Industry |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
