When E-Mail was invented in the late 80’s of the last century (sic!) most people announced the end of the written letter within the next five years. Today (25 years later) we have to look back...
EUROPEAN WIDE DIGITAL LICENSING: AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT (Games, apps, add-ons, e-books, movies, tv-shows, music, podcasts, social media content [e.g. YouTube videos], subtitles, dubs etc) ALL RULES...
On 1 July 2016, the provisions on trust services in the eIDAS Regulation will apply. All the main actors in the European market, like trust service providers, supervisory authorities, conformity...
Sharing information is vital and formats need to be interoperable. Standards are important to avoid fragmentation and secure interoperability. It is important to showcase real-life experiences as a...
Below are a number of key messages from previous eIDAS high-level private sector events: Once one is using eIDAS, one is benefitting from the reuse, and one has the insurance, which will reduce the...
By easing the cross-border and cross-sector use of electronic identification and trust services, the eIDAS Regulation has the potential to positively impact an increasing number of sectors where...
Two weeks ago, the Municipality of Thessaloniki launched its e-Government web portal ; an effort based on open and free source software. On June 29, I will present our experience in Athens, on the...
Ecommerce Europe launched the survey “Barriers to Growth” amongst its European-wide membership base in Q1 2015. With the survey and its other projects, Ecommerce Europe provides European...
The e-commerce sector drives great innovation in the online payments sector. Consumers want to be able to pay wherever and whenever, and they want to pay easily and at a fair cost. These new consumer...
During the Ecommerce Europe Annual Conference of 8 June, representatives from the policy, the consumer and the industry side came together to discuss how smart harmonization at the European level can...
Ecommerce Europe launched the first Worldwide E-commerce Roundtable on Sunday 7 June in Barcelona, bringing together some of the biggest representatives of the e-commerce sector in the United States...
The European parcel delivery market is far from integrated, and service providers, online merchants, and regulators will need to work together to deliver better service to the European consumer...
DIGITALEUROPE’s vision is of a European Union that nurtures and supports digital technology industries, and that prospers from the jobs we provide, the innovation and economic benefits we...
Your experience I am a regular buyer of ebooks. I live in Spain but I am a British national. I cannot buy ebooks from the UK Amazon site when in Spain (I can if I visit the UK). I often find that...
We are about to enter into the potential phase of evolution of technological progress [up to now characterized by the "slow" processes , "easily" perceptible and "understandable"] of "exponential...
Technology [and especially the automation / robotics] has as its objective the improvement of human conditions, allow welfare to all, and also allow human progress, reporting the consequential levels...
Where technology meets creation: a vision for a sustainable creative content market May 2015 The Linked Content Coalition (LCC) is a not-for-profit global consortium of standards bodies and...
Disenfranchised individuals throughout Europe face a major ‘Barrier’ for gaining employment. That barrier is the Internet documentation of past mistakes. NuPersona & Xam Mobile...
Prof Dr Micheal Hofmann, Prof von Hayak, Prof Claus Schawb 1978, role of IT in Europe Market place A very brief recap of those rich experience on the IOISS Blog space we would like to share with...
Multinational companies don't support a single market Companies like Google inc. currently do not support publishers from any EU-member state to conduct business (read: receive payments ) via their...