Tag: digital single market

Tomorrow is a big day for the data economy. Data’s very concept is changing. It has become a commodity: its ownership can be transferred, it can be marketed, reused, aggregated, transformed, bought and sold.

Later today, Brussels will play host to an important event for international development – or rather, an event that advances digital for development.

Anyone reading the international news headlines over the last few weeks will know that cyber warfare remains very much alive.

Many of you will be following the twists and turns of the EU's reform of copyright law.

For those who follow my blogs, you know that I have written a few times already about the importance of trust in the online environment.

Summer is now upon us - and things are getting a lot easier for the digitally minded traveller around Europe.

Reforming Europe's copyright laws has turned out to be one of the most controversial parts of the entire Digital Single Market project.

I have written in the past about the EU's commitment to emerging technologies, supporting and prioritising top-quality scientific research and innovation.

Back in October 2014 at my European Parliament hearing, I talked about the Digital Single Market (DSM) needing to remove obstacles that prevented people from exercising their rights as consumers and entrepreneurs.

I have often talked about the need for trust in the online environment. It is a basic condition that must exist within any digital economy or society, and of course for the Digital Single Market (DSM) that we are now building in Europe.

I have said for a long time that Europe urgently needs to invest in its digital future – both politically and financially.

Europe faces some serious health challenges that are simply not going away.

Europe has always been home to world-leading inventors and innovators.

I recently went to Barcelona to take part in the Mobile World Congress.

This will be a decisive year for the Digital Single Market.

The internet is a fascinating and diverse place to explore and be entertained, to learn and play, to shop and communicate. But it can also be dangerous and frightening, especially for children.

Building trust and confidence in the online environment goes hand-in-hand with building a Digital Single Market (DSM).

I would like to welcome European Parliament President Antonio Tajani with this guest blog, timely given the EU-African Union summit that is now being held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Today is the start of European Robotics Week, now in its seventh year.

Quantum theory has fundamentally changed our understanding of how light and matter behave at a microscopic scale. It has led to a drastically different approach to computing, sensing and communications. It has transformed our daily lives beyond measure.