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- PRESS RELEASE
- ICT research: Commission-backed project to help identify systemic financial market risks
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(18 October 2010)The European Commission is investing in a research project to develop new systemic risk indicators for "early warning systems" that could alert governments and bankers to impending financial crises in the earliest stages and take early action to stop them from spreading. Researchers from universities in Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, experts at Yahoo! and the European Central Bank will investigate how financial institutions are exposed to systemic risk as a result of complex, highly inter-connected digital information and transaction systems. Based on a new multi-disciplinary research approach, the project will analyse the complex system of global, ICT-based financial transactions, along with internet search queries, to monitor the build-up of risk in the financial system and the economy as a whole.
- PRESS RELEASE
- ICT research: EU funded project helps to map pollution
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(14 October 2010)Real time maps of air, ground and water pollution can now be made available to everyone thanks to an EU-funded research project called INTAMAP. The INTAMAP project has developed open specifications software to draw up contour maps that not only show the exact location of polluted areas but also illustrate where pollution is coming from and where it is headed. Such information enables public authorities to decide more quickly on appropriate action to tackle the source of the pollution and allows individuals to avoid it. Researchers from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands and the UK worked on the project which received some EUR 1.8 million in EU funding. Applying ICT research to benefit Europe's citizens and businesses is a key element of the Digital Agenda for Europe adopted by the Commission in May 2010.
- PRESS RELEASE
- Digital Agenda: household survey reveals more Europeans on-line but concerned about costs and security
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(13 October 2010)Europeans are becoming increasingly "digital" according to a European Commission Eurobarometer survey which questioned 27,000 households throughout the EU on their use of internet, telephones and TV. More Europeans are subscribing to broadband internet and digital television in fixed-cost bundled 'packages'. Increased broadband take-up means even more Europeans are going online with 35% now using social networking websites. However, they have concerns about cost, quality of service and security, as well as online freedom. One fifth of fixed and mobile internet users reveal that they have experienced problems with blocked content and applications. The Commission's May 2010 Digital Agenda for Europe not only sets ambitious targets to bring broadband internet to all of Europe's citizens but also outlines measures to boost competition, trust and security.
Reminders
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- eChallenges e-2010 Conference and Exhibition
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27 October 2010 - 29 October 2010 Warsaw, Poland
This is the twentieth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 650 delegates from commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge, experience and good practice. eChallenges e-2010 will focus on applied ICT research topics addressing major societal and economic challenges.
New in the Library
- SPEECH
- Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda
- Spreading Cultural Wealth with ICT
Opening Speech at "Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century (AVA21)" Conference, Ghent, 13 October 2010
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