Full coverage: Europe

30.05.2005 The BBC, Channel 4, the Open University and the British Film Institute BFI) have launched the Creative Archive, an initiative to provide access to public service audio and video archives.

30.05.2005 The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), working with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has published its strategy for e-learning.

27.05.2005 In a 17-minute podcast, Si Brindley, a Britisher, can learn the numbers 1-10 and the days of the week in Shona, the main language of Zimbabwe.

26.05.2005 The city of Portsmouth with its 186,000 people has devised a novel solution for its traffic problem - with a state-of-the-art communication system in place, nobody has to wait at the bus stop for the buses to come.

24.05.2005 The Centre for Contemporary Arts promoted the new internet site www.reka.org.mk, at the press conference held today at the NGO InfoCentre in Skopje. The web-site is dedicated to the Reka Region in Western Macedonia.

20.05.2005 University of Glasgow and Bristol researchers have detected TV watching as one of the eight factors, ncluding lack of sleep and parental obesity, for child obesity.

20.05.2005 The Central National Bureau for e-Croatia started the public debate on the draft-Law on Electronic Documents. All interested to present their opinion and join the discussion can do it by May 30, 2005.

20.05.2005 Viviane Reding, the Commissioner for Information Society and Media, and Ján Figel’ launched a multi-annual, multi-stakeholder drive to build digital competence at home, school and the workplace at the “Towards a learning society” conference, in Brussels.

19.05.2005 Ministers of Transport and Communication from the Southeast European countries will participate the Regional Ministerial Conference on Information Society, in Thessalonica, Greece between 30th June and 1st July 2005.

17.05.2005 Free Software Foundation Europe, Italian Linux Society e Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia, raccogliendo le adesioni dei Linux User Group e delle associazioni sensibili all'argomento, hanno deciso di inviare una lettera aperta ai parlamentari italiani per supportare la discussione in Senato della mozione contro i brevetti software. Se la direttiva europea sulla brevettabilità del software diventerà legge, i paesi dell'Unione Europea si troveranno a gareggiare nella ricerca, nello sviluppo, nella produzione del settore ICT con le armi spuntate.

17.05.2005 Svih 460 osnovnih i srednjih skola u Makedoniji ce dobiti internet pristup na pocetku skolske godine 2005/2006. Internet pristup je obezbjeđen kroz grant USAID-a i projekta ''Makedonija se konektuje''.

16.05.2005 The Zamisli Srbiju web presentation, prepared by the youth from the Lingua-Kraljevo NGO, won the award for the best concept for a web-site. The award was given at the final conference “Youth+Technology=Entry into EU”, for the competition “Serbia – EU Candidate”.

16.05.2005 BECTA's recent research on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of ICT systems in schools has been welcomed by the Open Source Consortium (OSC) and Schoolforge UK.

13.05.2005 All 460 elementary and secondary schools in Macedonia will have broadband internet access at the start of the school year 2005/2006. The internet access is provided through a grant of the USAID’s Macedonia Connects project.

13.05.2005 DAREnet is formally launched to provide free access to research materials produced by the major Dutch universities.

11.05.2005 European academics and politicians have proposed an alternative project to counter Google's plans to create an online library of digitized literature.

06.05.2005 Eighteen French municipalities will use e-voting machines during the referendum of 29 May 2005. The referendum will provide municipalities with the possibility of testing one or more e-voting systems. Some of the e-voting experiments will be legally binding (e.g. in the city of Antibes Juan-les-Pins), while others will not have any legal value. More.

04.05.2005 Fondacijata Metamorfozis ja organizira konferencijata „Avtorskite prava vo digitalnata era". Temite na konferencijata ke gi obraboti m-r Maja Bogataj, ekspert za avtorski prava od Pravniot fakultet pri Univerzitetot vo Ljubljana. Konferencijata ke se odrzi vo Sveceniot amfiteatar na Pravniot fakultet „Justinijan Prvi" vo Skopje, na 10 maj, 2005 godina, so pocetok vo 9.30 casot.

04.05.2005 The European Commission today announced its policy of preserving and exploiting Europe's written and audiovisual heritage using the internet and the digital technologies.

04.05.2005 Gjatë fundjavës së prillit, 23-24, është organizuar Installfest nga OJQ-ja Softueri i Lirë. Festivali i instalimit për përdoruesit e kompjuterëve në Maqedoni që duan të testojnë dhe provojnë Sistemin Operativ GNU/Linux është mbajtur në hapësirat e Shkollës për Inxhinieri Elektrike në Shkup.