EU in race to digitise economy

EU Observer reports on some of the EU Digital Agenda’s purposes. Brussels wants all EU citizens to have internet access, to routinely shop online and their medical records stored in a data cloud.

The bid to see virtually all facets of life conducted electronically by the end of this decade is part of the EU's much-vaunted Digital Agenda. The ultimate economic aim is to make sure that the 27-nation bloc is still among those that count - along with China and the US - by 2020.

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ESO: Background information: Digital agenda: Connecting the EU http://www.europeansources.info/record/digital-agenda-connecting-the-eu/

ESO: Background information: E-commerce growth 'sluggish', Commission finds http://www.europeansources.info/record/e-commerce-growth-sluggish-commission-finds/

European Commission: Digital Agenda http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm

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