Full coverage: Europe

31.05.2004 Two Australian scientists will work with their British counterparts to work on the design of faster laser-driven computers. This collaboration is being facilitated by the British Council Eureka Prize for Inspiring Science.

27.05.2004 On May 24, 2004, the Social Welfare Centre in Prijedor opened its Multimedia Laboratory. High ranking officials, representatives of the media and citizens were present at the opening ceremony.

20.05.2004 Il "Gruppo Proprietà Intellettuale" di Attac-Italia esprime disapprovazione per la votazione dei ministri europei sulla "Brevettabilità delle invenzioni a mezzo di elaboratori elettronici". Il consiglio dei Ministri Europei ha approvato il 18 maggio la direttiva sulla brevettabilità del software stile USA, in sfregio al Parlamento Europeo che aveva votato ed approvato il 24 settembre 1993 una direttiva completamente opposta ma rispettosa degli interessi europei. Come ha votato l'Italia? Sebbene il ministro Stanca abbia dimostrato opposizione alla direttiva l' Italia si è astenuta permettendo, pilatescamente, l'approvazione della direttiva.

20.05.2004 Oxfam has created what it claims to be the charity sector's first video
email. The videos to be streamed into Oxfam's monthly digital newsletter, available this week, show British schoolchildren demonstrating outside Westminster on behalf of the one million children worldwide who have no access to education.

20.05.2004 Latest study by a mobile research firm claims that under 25-year-olds spend five times as much of their disposable income on mobile phones, calls, texting and content as they are with music retailers.

20.05.2004
To the dismay and anger of many in the open source/free software movement, a meeting of the European Union Competitiveness Council in Brussels won approval this week for a new draft, which must now go before the directly elected European Parliament later this year. The draft relates to EU's relentless march toward software patenting.

20.05.2004 "Projekti informatizacije i izgradnje efikasnog sustava u tijelima državne uprave među osnovnim su poslovima Središnjeg državnog ureda za e-Hrvatsku. Veliki problem pri ostvarenju tog projekta predstavljaju visoke cijene internetskog pristupa, kao i nepostojanje kvalitetnih e-usluga tijela državne uprave." izjavio je danas državni tajnik u središnjem za uredu e-Hrvatsku Miroslav Kovačić na otvaranju Četvrtog e-business foruma.

19.05.2004 Four telecentres became operational in remote areas of Romania as part of the Dot-GOV project. These centres will offer a range of services to the village communities, from facilitating communication in emergency situations to tap the potential of e-commerce.

18.05.2004 Schools in the UK are now reaping the benefits of government's support to include ICTs in the curriculum. However, there is still a long way to go before ICTs can become an integral part of the school curriculum.

17.05.2004 Sixty-six returnees, refugees and IDPs, as well as persons with special needs from Prijedor, successfully completed the course on the basics of information sciences. The training programme lasted from February 1 to April 30, 2004, and was financed by the Danish Refugee Council.

13.05.2004 U petak, 14. maja 2004., u 20:00h u prostorijama Centra za nove medije_kuda.org, Brace Mogin 2, Detelinara, Novi Sad, odrzace se promocija novog izdanja Centra za proucavanje informacionih tehnologija (CePIT) Beogradske otvorene skole (BOS).
Knjiga Globalni gradjani donosi najvaznije rezultate empirijske studije korisnika Interneta u Srbiji, koju je istrazivacki tim CePIT-a sproveo tokom 2003. godine, kao i temeljan uvod u koncept, teoriju i istrazivanje informacionog drustva.
Na promociji ce govoriti Nenad Golcevski i Goran Milovanovic, urednici CePITa, koji ce ukratko predstaviti neke od najvaznijih rezultata dobijenih u ovoj obimnoj studiji.

08.05.2004 La Free Software Foundation Europe invita nei giorni 10-17 maggio a partecipare ad azioni di protesta contro la normativa, in procinto di votazione al Parlamento Europeo, che intende introdurre brevetti per i software; l'Associazione Software Libero presenta emendamenti al Decreto Urbani per salvaguardare il software libero. E mentre inizia a Roma il Forum della Pubblica Amministrazione (Forum PA), le associazioni per il software libero ribadiscono che la Direttiva del ministro Stanca "delude le aspettative" e fa dipendere la scelta del software negli enti pubblici da "criteri puramente economicistici".

03.05.2004 Since 2001 children's usage of mobile phone has almost doubled, according to a recent survey. It also shows that many of them are leading stressful lives.

02.05.2004 Yesterday, April 29, the first workshop of the Trans_European Picnic was held in Novi Sad, in the facilities of kuda.org.

The workshop was led by Guy van Belle, from the Amsterdam based organization Waag Society, organization which works in the field of use of streaming and internet technologies in art forms, primarily in performing arts and music, but also in the field of visual arts.

OneWorld SEE talked to Guy van Belle about the workshop.