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Are we building economic obsolescence into the next generation?

January 28, 2016

  Youth unemployment is a global issue. Approximately 74 million young people (15 – 24) are unemployed globally. In Europe the figure is around 4.5 million. Spain, Greece, Italy and Croatia each have youth unemployment rates exceeding 40 per cent.     The social implications of this large scale youth unemployment are profound. Very soon… » read more

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Digital Single Market, Education, Grand Coalition, InfoSociety, Public Affairs, Workers mobility

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Digital Agenda Assembly: what can you do for Europe?

July 1, 2013

The Digital Agenda Assembly took place in Dublin on 19-20 June. DIGITALEUROPE attended Workshop 1 on the Grand Coalition and Workshop 4 on technology enablers. Overall, jobs and education came out as leading drivers of the Digital Agenda. Take John Higgins’ pitch to Workshop 1. Having urged participants to define a digital job – just… » read more

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Culture, how many crimes are perpetrated in your name!

May 28, 2013

“Liberty, how many crimes are perpetrated in your name!” History tells that these were the last words uttered by Manon Roland before being beheaded by guillotine in 1793. She was not afforded much time to elaborate, but considering the context (she was executed by the very same people whose cause – the French revolution –… » read more

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Culture, Education, EU Priorities and Opinion

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Creating digital jobs easier than putting humans on the moon

April 23, 2013

I’ve always been interested in space. Mysteries of the universe, space travel, black holes and all that. So it was a real pleasure to hear an 83-year-old Buzz Aldrin speak at a dinner in Brussels recently, and to discover that my dinner table neighbour worked for NASA. It got me comparing the challenges of getting… » read more

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Education, Grand Coalition, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth

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A ray of hope?

June 5, 2012

Media seem to go by the unwritten dogma that only difference in opinion, not consensus, is worth the headlines. Regardless, agreeing common principles has always been a prerequisite to joint action or effective progress in the real world. This at least holds true for the European Union, this innovative construct of national governments whose collective… » read more

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Economy & Euro, Education, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth

EUhackathon 2012: Bridging the gap between government and technology

April 19, 2012

The stereotype of a hacker is some dodgy looking, long haired, uncouth youth who creates and cracks codes in order to exploit a company or organisation. Nothing could in fact be further from the truth says Caroline De Cock, organiser of the EUhackathon, who is actively working to change the perception of a “hacker” into… » read more

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Education, InfoSociety, Innovation and Growth

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Living In Today’s Online World: e-Skills Week 2012

February 22, 2012

In today’s digital world some ‘lucky’ children are practically born with touch-key knowledge. As a digital native, it is easy to imagine how over 200 billion people use the internet worldwide and millions more come online each year. But what about those people who have not been so lucky? According to data from Eurostat released… » read more

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Education, EU Priorities and Opinion, Romanian, Uncategorized, Workers mobility

e-Skills4Jobs4Life

November 16, 2011

In a bid to help Europe – and most especially Europe’s youth – seize the best opportunities for jobs generated through digital technologies, DIGITALEUROPE and European Schoolnet have joined forces with the European Commission – DG Enterprise and Industry – to organise a European e-Skills Week in 2012 on 26-30 March 2012. Youth unemployment, has… » read more

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Economy & Euro, Education, Science & Research, Uncategorized

DIGITALEUROPE

DIGITALEUROPE is dedicated to improving the business environment for the European digital technology industry, and to promoting the digital technology industry's contribution to economic growth and social progress in the European Union. Click here for

DIGITALEUROPE (www.digitaleurope.org), is the voice of the European digital technology industry. Our membership includes large and small companies in the Information and Communications Technology and Consumer Electronics Industry sectors. DIGITALEUROPE membership is composed of 61 major multinational companies and 41 national associations from 29 European countries. In all, DIGITALEUROPE represents more than 10,000 companies all over Europe with more than 2 million employees and over EUR 1 Trillion in revenues.


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