I spent last week in Europe, in between Stockholm, Brussels and Paris
The Right to be Forgotten
For the last few days I’ve been musing about the recent “right to be forgotten” that has been imposed on Google (and,
Municipal Broadband Event in Brussels
Benoît Felten will be speaking next week on Thursday February 7th (14.00-18.00) at an event organised in Brussels by the Swedish Association of Local Authorities
A bit of good news on the ETNO/ITU take-over attempt front…
European Parliament Stairs (cc) photogreuhphies
This just in: the European Parliament posted a resolution with a large majority against ITU’s attempt at regulatory control of the internet. Here are the salient articles:
5. [The European Parliament] believes that the ITU,
Forget incentives to incumbents and eliminate hurdles to all others!
In a speech yesterday, EU commissioner for information society Neelie Kroes announced some new proposals to boost investment in Next-Generation Networks. The plan in a nutshell st
Neelie Kroes Tweets!
It may sound anecdotal, and in a certain way it is, but I find it interesting (
Policy Failure ?
THD92 is good to go
THD92 is a massive local government fiber project in the suburbs close to Paris. I wrote in depth about it back in 2007 when it was announced, but not much happened since then. The pending ruling by the EC didn't
The Incentive Paradox aka European NGA State Aid Guidelines
At the end of last week, the European Commission finally released its new rulings on state aid for broadband. The full document