Visby Agenda – Creating Impact for an eUnion 2015

9-10 November 2009

se2009.eu/visbyagenda

20094 August, Communication: COM(2009) 390 final: Europe’s Digital

Competitiveness Report,

September, Report: A Green Knowledge Society –an ICT policy agenda to 2015 for Europe’s future knowledge society,

November, Conference: Visby Agenda –creating impact for an eUnion 2015, 9-10 November and Presidency conclusions,

17-18 December, Council conclusions: TTE-Council (Transport, Telecom & Energy)

2010Commission initiative for a new ICT-policy agenda to 2015(Commission initiative for a post-Lisbon agenda to 2020)Spanish presidency to adopt commission initiative

Wide and public debate

#visbyagenda – we will listen

se2009.eu/visbyagenda

(ourvisbyagenda.eu)

Program & invitation in September

Wide and public debate

#visbyagenda – we will listen

se2009.eu/visbyagenda

Private initiative, an example:

www.ourvisbyagenda.eu

MS MS MS MS MS … MS/Pres

EUCOM

Councilconclusions

Visbyagenda

Visbyagenda

Comminication Openconsultations

New ICTagenda

Some facts:• There are about 20 million SMEs in Europe. • In Sweden, more than 8 out of 10

companies use ICT to some extent as a tool in their activities

• In the Budget Bill for 2009 the government pushed for increased use of electronically procurement. The effort must be increased

• the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency – 22 million SEK per year since 2009 – a national procurement support program in order to make the whole procurement process electronically

Other relevant activities

• Internet Governance – an open, resilient and global Internet

• Network openness – report by PTS

• Radio spectrum policy

• The government plans to present a detailed direction for policies in a broadband strategy

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