Information-Society-Policies_Proceedings

Within the framework of the ICT Partnership, the Information Society DG of the European Commission and the Presidency of the European ISOC Chapters Coordination organised an information meeting with ICT associations and representatives of ISOC Chapters in Europe on Friday 7th of December afternoon in Brussels.

The meeting did cover a wide range of issues linked to EU policies, such as Internet governance, DNS, multilingualism, eContent, etc . In the light of the presentations made by EC Officials and participants to EU projects, there was an open discussion on how the user and demand requirements could impact Internet related programmes at the level of Europe and world-wide.
Opening	Jacques Berleur, Recteur honoraire des Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix à Namur, Chair of ISOC-Wallonie, Richard Delmas, DG INFSO
ICANN : Current positions and prospects	Christopher Wilkinson, GAC Vice Chair, Adviser DG INFSO
Creating value with DNS	Loïc Damilaville, Director CVFM
Users and business issues related to DNS developments	Jon Thorhallsson, CECUA
eContent and the multilingual dimension of DNS	Patrick Vande Walle, DG INFSO
Project Euractiv -Crosslingual	Rianne Ten Veen, Euractiv, Information Society Coordinator
MEDEF, Mouvement des Entreprises de France	Sophie Le Pallec, MEDEF
Information Society DG, Espace Beaulieu - Bruxelles Contacts : Richard Delmas, DG INFSO - Marie-Anne Delahaut, adjointe à la direction et conseillère, Institut Jules-Destrée

		Information Society Policies Bruxelles, December Friday 7, 2001