EU DIGITAL AGENDA Telegram - published 18 January

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IEU.MONITORING: EU DIGITAL AGENDA Telegram - published 18 January 2016

# BIG DATA

  • Competition in a big data world – Speech by EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager at the DLD Conference in Munich
  • Transparency and User Control Critical to Success of Big Data - Vodafone Institute

# DSM

  • A busy year ahead building the Digital Single Market - Blog by Andrus Ansip
  • EP Background: Digital Single Market
  • Highlights - Vote in Plenary: Towards a Digital Single Market Act - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
  • Deutsche Telekom: Primal fear of all things digital

# DATA PROTECTION

  • Letter to Barack Obama, Jean-Claude Juncker, Donald Tusk and the Heads of Government and State of the 28 EU Member States on cross-border data flows and “Safe Harbour” - signed by BUSINESSEUROPE, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, DIGITALEUROPE and the Information Technology Industry Council
  • Vortrag "The New Data Protection regulation - a global standard made in Europe" - Jan Philipp Albrecht, MdEP

# CYBER SECURITY

  • New good practice guide by ENISA on disclosing vulnerabilities

# TSM

  • “Regulatory framework will remain at the heart of BEREC’s work in 2016”- BEREC Chair presents the role of the regulation at the workshop on “Digital Europe”

# ITU & ISO

  • ITU: New global platform to assist development of Smart Sustainable Cities

# ISA2

  • EU Commission and EU Member States: From ISA to ISA²

# CODING

  • New record for the EU Code Week: more than half a million people took part in 2015

# INTERNET GOVERNANCE

  • ICANN54 and a Commitment to Human Rights – LSE Media Policy Project

# MEDIA

  • Publishers focus on audience engagement for 2016 - Future Media Lab
  • New Norwegian initiative to promote freedom of expression and independent media - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

# COPERNICUS

  • EU Commission: Jason-3 satellite successfully launched, will provide marine data to EU's Copernicus programme  

# INDUSTRY 4.0

  • High level conference on the digital transformation of industries and enterprises

# AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

  • EU Parliament: Oral question - Autonomous driving - O-2016-000004

# CONNECTIVITY

  • United Kingdom: Rural internet expansion across UK by Gigaclear gets GBP 18m EIB support

# EU REGISTERS


# EU PARLIAMENT

  • Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection: Timetables for dossiers
  • Subject files: Working Group on Labour market impacts of digitalisation and robotics - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
  • Draft agenda - Monday, 25 January 2016 - PE 575.254v01-00 - Committee on Culture and Education

# EU COUNCIL

  • Cm 1021 2016 Init Working Party on Information Exchange and Data Protection (DAPIX)
  • St 5180 2016 Init Information exchange developments, strengthening implementation and use of different systems - the focus of DAPIX
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