Commission: Beware digital media’s tribal lure

During the annual conference of Future Media Lab, which took place in Brussels on 20 January 2015, Jonathan Hill - head of cabinet of European Commissioner for Culture Tabor Navracsics - warned that digitisation posed a danger to media diversity, defending the EU should focus as much on content and quality as access issues within the planned digital single market strategy.

On 12-13 February 2015, the Startup Europe Summit took place in Berlin. It featured EU's Digital Commissioner Günther Oettinger and Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip - the first spoke in support of net neutrality and tech-startups, the second called for other forms of IT promotion.

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EurActiv, 17.02.15: Oettinger: IT sector needs new 'generation of Shakespeares' http://www.euractiv.com/sections/infosociety/oettinger-it-sector-needs-new-generation-shakespeares-312161

EurActiv, 13.05.15: European specialist media dodges crisis http://www.euractiv.com/sections/media-freedom-and-innovations/european-specialist-media-dodges-crisis-314309

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