IEU Monitoring: EU DIGITAL Telegram - 10 March 2016

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# DATA JOURNALISM

  • Awarding the world’s best data journalism - Google Europe Blog

# DSM

  • Prof. Dr. Susana Sargento - Winner of the EU Women Innovators Prize 2016 – Blog post by EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger
  • Vice-President Ansip in the United States: "Data is the foundation of our digital future"
  • EU Parliament: Text adopted - Towards a thriving data-driven economy - P8_TA-PROV(2016)0089 - Thursday, 10 March 2016 - Strasbourg - Provisional edition
  • Digitaleurope: European Parliament’s Big Data Report provides useful guidance on future digital single market initiatives
  • ECTA: European Parliament beats the drum of competition in the interest of end-users
  • ETNO: Upcoming events
  • EuroCPR, 14 March 2016, Marrakech: Content Creation and Distribution in the Digital Single Market
  • Bits, 15 March 2016, Brussels - Protecting the Digital Consumers
  • CeBIT, 14 - 18 March 2016, Hannover - Global Event for Digital Business
  • European Internet Forum, 16 March 2016, Brussels: An ambitious EU framework for 5G deployment
  • ENISA, 16 March 2016, Brussels: Security Certification of ICT products in Europe
  • BIPT, 16 - 17 March 2016, Brussels: Creating the right conditions for digital products, networks and services to flourish in the digital single market
  • European Commission, 17 March 2016, Brussels: 2016 CEF Telecom virtual Info Day
  • ETSI, 21 – 22 March 2016, Sophia Antipolis: Internet of Things in the Smart Home
  • Getting to equal. How digital can help close the gender gap at work - Accenture - March 2016

# INDUSTRY 4.0

  • DG Grow: Strategic Policy Forum on Digital Entrepreneurship  - Accelerating the digital transformation of European industry
  • Study - Industry 4.0 - EP THINKTANK

# TSM

  • ITU strengthens ties between technology, business and policy  - Economic and policy requirements to play a greater role in informing ITU standardization
  • #NetFutures2016, tech & telecom sector talk innovation – ETNO

# EBU

  • DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET: THE EBU PRESENTS ITS VIEWS ON THE FUTURE OF AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA REGULATION
  • Eurovision announces deployment of brand new Flex solution at Eurovision Song Contest

# COPYRIGHT

  • U.S. COPYRIGHT ROYALTY JUDGES RELEASE FINAL DETERMINATION IN WEB IV PROCEEDING

# CYBERSECURITY

  • BSI erteilt Zertifikate im Rahmen der RSA Conference 2016

# E-GOVERNMENT

  • EU Commission: Interoperability for European public services - revision of EIS and EIF DIGIT - CWP - Impact assessement planned : Yes

# E-COMMERCE

  • Report: Expensive Ecommerce Options Don’t Always Pay off - ARC - March 2016
  • The State of European FinTech: A Tech.eu report on funding and M&A activity in 2015 - Tech.eu - March 2016

# E-HEALTH

  • WHO Europe: E-health in practice
  • e-Standards conference for health information

# SPECTRUM

  • EURLEX: OJ:JOL_2016_063_R_0003: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/339 of 8 March 2016 on the harmonisation of the 2010-2025 MHz frequency band for portable or mobile wireless video links and cordless cameras used for programme making and special events (notified under document C(2016) 1197) (Text with EEA relevance)
  • UK Ofcom: New Spectrum for Audio PMSE

# INTERNET GOVERNANCE

  • ITU: World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum, Geneva, 2 - 6 May
  • Geneva Internet Platform: Engaging digital actors - fostering effective digital policy - monitoring digital governance

# EU REGISTERS

# EU PARLIAMENT

  • Answer - Connected cars - E-015239/2015
  • Answer - Negative impact of correction coefficients on staffing of European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency and other EU decentralised agencies - P-000008/2016
  • Motion for a resolution on regulating cyberspace - B8-2016-0272
  • Oral question - Deployment of cross-border e-identification tools and online services - O-2016-000042
  • Motion for a resolution on the role of technology in teaching and in the classroom - B8-2016-0285

# EU COUNCIL

  • Cm 1852 2016 Init Working Party on Intellectual Property (Copyright)
  • Cm 1853 2016 Init Working Party on Intellectual Property
  • St 6888 2016 Init Business ownership and security risk acceptance for IT platforms or systems and platforms processing documents and files for Council decision-making.

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