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Indicators on fixed and mobile telephony, broadcasting and bundle, together with financial indicators on telecom data, are available in this files.

This study provides comprehensive data on the 2016 retail prices of fixed broadband offers for consumers in the EU28, Iceland, Norway, Japan, South Korea, Canada and the USA.

The Broadband Coverage in Europe study is designed to monitor the progress of EU Member States towards their specific broadband coverage objectives, i.e. ‘Universal Broadband Coverage with speeds at least 30 Mbps by 2020’ and ‘Broadband Coverage of 50% of households with speeds at least 100 Mbps by 2020’.

At the 2017 i~HD Conference you can find out how big data can be used for clinical research, how hospitals are successfully reusing patient data as 'Learning Health Systems', and how they are improving their data quality. A major part of the conference will be dedicated to patient perspectives on reusing their health data for research.

This event is organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in cooperation with the Government of Portugal. This year's edition will focus on "A Sustainable Society for All Ages - Realising the potential of living longer".

This event will convene more than 200 media and information literacy professionals from institutions, NGOs, media outlets and academia from all over the world. Together, they will address the need to develop media literacy and critical thinking in education and training at all levels, including through citizenship and media education.

The High Performance Computing (HPC) factsheet explains what HPC and its research is about. Today, these systems are able to perform more than 10 power 15 operations per second (petascale) and are expected in a few years to reach 10 power 18 operations per second (exascale), a computing power level comparable to aggregating all computing capabilities of the cell phones of the entire European Union population.

CREDENTIAL is a EU funded research project developing, testing and showcasing innovative cloud-based services for storing, managing, and sharing digital identity information with a demonstrably higher level of security. The main idea and ambition of CREDENTIAL is to enable end-to-end security and improved privacy in cloud identity management services to manage secure access control. This is achieved by advancing novel cryptographic technologies and improving strong authentication mechanisms.

The Horizon 2020 project ‘TYPES’ participated in the Digital Assembly 2017, co-organised by the European Commission and the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, in the panel entitled “Ensuring Confidentiality of communications data and of users smart devices: the proposed ePrivacy Regulation”.

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is opening a call for Expression of Interest for Membership of the Permanent Stakeholders Group to be assigned for a period of two and a half years. The Permanent Stakeholders Group advises the Agency in respect of the performance of its activities. It shall in particular advise the Executive Director on drawing up a proposal for the Agency’s annual work programme, and on ensuring the communication with the relevant stakeholders on all issues related to the work programme. Deadline for applications is 4 October.