Public Policy Blog

This month, we celebrate our 1rst Public Policy Blog Anniversary! It is a pleasure to have shared these last twelve month with all of you and to celebrate today our one year milestone. ICT world policy is currently crossing an interesting moment with all the challenges to build a successful and Sustainable future that puts [...]

On 11 January 2012, European Commission adopted the 2012 Communication on e-commerce and other online services that aim to double the retails online sales and the weight of Internet sector in European GDP. The Communication identifies 5 priorities and is accompanied by a 16 goals action plan. As I already wrote in my post on Cloud [...]

On 14 December, Commissioner Kroes met a small group of industry representatives concerning Cloud Computing policy. As members of this initiative amongst others, Oracle, Google, SAP and EuroCloud presented her a set of 10 Recommendations on how to boost Cloud services in Europe.

With such a grandiose and sweeping event title one immediately wondered how much could be achieved in just two days (1st and 2nd of November).  The agenda that slowly seeped out in the run-up to the conference didn’t do much to inspire confidence, the themed panels seemingly covering so much ground that it made it [...]

The European Commission and the U.S. Government, under the framework of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC), have agreed on a set of 10 fundamental principles for trade in information and communication technology (ICT) services. The EU and the US, in cooperation with other countries, will promote these principles worldwide in order to support the global [...]

When using the term Transatlantic Relations we tend to narrow its different dimensions to the particular US-Europe bilateral relationship at the economic level.  The Transatlantic Economy is generally studied focusing on cross border trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment and jobs mutually generated between the US and Europe[1].  Knowledge, understood as reciprocal sources [...]