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Tag: Digital Agenda

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Improved EU rules for stolen personal data online

EU common rules enable a high standard of protection for your personal information everywhere in Europe, and their scope has just been expanded by new specific rules for consumers when telecoms personal data is lost or stolen.

More and more Europeans going mobile, but many still without computer skills

The Internet is now present almost everywhere in Europe, with more and more Europeans accessing it on mobile devices, shows the latest overview of digital progress in the EU. This fact lies in stark contrast with another finding, namely that almost half of the same population has little or no computer skills.

Code of EU Online Rights published

The Code of EU Online Rights is a document outlining online consumer rights and principles that exist in European legislation, offering simple, transparent and understandable explanations of the legal rights and obligations of EU citizens.

Interview with Chi Onwurah MP: “European regulators need to be more robust in setting key message for competition in NGA”

Chi Onwurah is the UK Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills, and is a board member of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Ms Onwurah spoke to Aphaia's Boštjan Makarovič about the future of telecoms regulation and Next Generation Access networks.

Digital Agenda for Europe gets an update for 2013

The European Commission has adopted 7 new priorities of the Digital Agenda for Europe that are to be the focus of activities in 2013 and 2014.

Monthly Round Up: November 2012

In the news this past month: Britain addresses the culture, practices and ethics of its press, Europe and USA join in making the Internet safer for children, and the European Commission publishes a study on broadband coverage in Europe in 2011.

Aphaia to speak at the 2012 FTTx Eastern Europe conference

Dr Boštjan Makarovič, Aphaia’s Chief Consultant, is to speak at the FTTx Summit Eastern Europe conference that is taking place in Budapest between 18 and 21 September 2012.

15 million Europeans online for the first time in 2011, half of EU labour force still without sufficient ICT skills

The European Commission has published its annual scoreboard on the progress of the implementation of the Digital Agenda in the European Union.

Aphaia at the Ultra Fast Broadband Conference

Yesterday, on 21 May Aphaia’s Chief Consultant Boštjan Makarovič attended the conference Ultra Fast Broadband Policy and Practice, that took place in Brussels.

European Commission refers Hungary to European Court of Justice over telecoms tax

The European Commission has referred Hungary to the European Court of Justice for failing to end a special tax on the turnover of telecommunications operators. The tax in question was introduced in October 2010 in response to the economic crisis of the country.