Consumers benefit from a large choice of communications services that can be provided either by a telecoms company or a pure internet provider; modalities associated with the technical implementation...
Experience: In two decades, the internet revolution has transformed citizens’ lives and supported the development of a wide range of new services. It has also deeply transformed the way...
The British bank NatWest does not permit its iPad app to be downloaded outside the UK; so any customer living outside the UK won't have the benefits of using the app. The app is handier than using...
Experience: Digital platforms exert a monopoly by capturing big data Many dominant digital-based companies exert a monopoly on their market (e.g. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple iTunes, GooglePlay...
This is a Policy Brief by industriAll European Trade Union , the European federation of trade unions in the manufacturing sectors (190 affiliates, 7 million members, across all industrial value...
This is a Policy Brief by industriAll European Trade Union , the European federation of trade unions in the manufacturing sectors (190 affiliates, 7 million members, across all industrial value...
Experience: Progress in Advanced Manufacturing (also known as " Industrie 4.0 " in Germany) critically depends on the availability of a standard for the communication protocol and for the data format...
Experience: Digital platforms exert a monopoly by using opaque search algorithms Many dominant digital-based companies exert a monopoly on their market (e.g. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple iTunes,...
Experience: I am Serial Internet Entrepreneur. I started many Internet projects, some of them sold to large EU-based media house. I consider myself very experienced/knowledgeable in that industry...
Experience: EFADs' Resolution on the potential reforms to EU copyright rules Ideas: The Association of the European Film Agency Directors (EFADs) adopted in March 2015 a Resolution on the potential...
Euractiv France reports on the cultural sector's reactions to the Reda report and the prospect of European copyright reform. (EN) Accedez à la version française ici ...
Experience: Digitalization in every sector is increasing rapidly. Various countries realize the big need to make production more efficient and in order to do that, there is big investments into...
Professor Gesche Joost from the German Design Research Lab and Digital Champion of Germany outlines her "napkin" digital single market vision at the Startup Europe Summit 2015 at Factory Berlin. She mentions the need for: harmonised copyright rules strong pan-European consumer rights elimination of...
Experience: According to studies, 100 million Europeans never use the internet – as they themselves explain it is because they don't have a computer or that it's too expensive, too difficult,...
Sites by BBC Worldwide are not available in the UK due to licencing reasons. It would be great to have a single market where we at least don't block content produced in the country in the same...
Coadec 's Executive Director, Guy Levin, was invited to speak at the EPP Group (the centre-right group in the European Parliament) meeting in Toledo on a panel about the digital single market. Here...
Experience: I'm currently project partner in the EU Commission backed DigiChampz Initiative ( www.digichampz.com ) This project is looking at the opportunities and benefits of the digital economy in...