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Working Groups

The EURIM work programme is reviewed quarterly by the Council and comprises:
  • working groups and sub-groups to set policy agendas
  • a monitoring service to keep members abreast of developments and initiatives to which they may need to respond

The following working groups are currently active:


Exercises which may well lead to working groups in co-operation with others are being organised in the following areas:


The monitoring service currently covers:


Outputs and documentation from working groups that have completed their activity can be found in the Resources section of this website in the Working Group Archive

 

Knowledge Economy

The objective of this group is to ensure that the UK/EU are competitive (in terms of regulation, skills, communication infrastructures etc.) in the global knowledge economy.  The group is currently focusing on the factors that make the UK and the EU the primary choice for knowledge businesses to locate their operations.

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Skills/Learning Networks

The objective of this group is to identify and promote the actions necessary to ensure that the UK has globally competitive lifelong learning networks by 2010 (DfES target announced in 2002) and a world-class knowledge and information skills base.

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Transformational Government
This group is focussed on identifying and promoting good practice in the use of information systems disciplines (not just technology) to help  deliver efficient, effective, joined-up, socially inclusive and accessible public services, when and where these are most needed.

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Intellectual Property Rights (monitoring service)

The objective of this group was to promote constructive and informed political debate on the issues around intellectual property in the digital age. The past papers and outputs and significant outputs from the monitoring service are available here.

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E-Commerce Directives (monitoring service)

EURIM works with the e-Business Regulatory Alliance and others to monitor initiatives and consultations that could affect those running e-Commerce and to organise responses when necessary.

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e-Crime

The objective of the group is to stimulate action and help set the agenda for a cross-cutting national strategy to address e-crime and the fear of e-crime, to provide business and consumers with the same level of protection and redress on-line as off-line and to make the UK the safest place to do business on-line.  

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Personal Identity and Data Sharing, Retention and Protection

The objective of this group is to help identify, publicise, protect and promote good practice in the secure management of personal information and identities across both public and private sectors - and to help ensure the detection and deterrence of ignorance, incompetence and malpractice.

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Communications Policy and Regulation

This group is looking at the organisation of a major exercise on Internet Governance and Policing in co-operation with the All Party Communications Group, PITCOM, the European Internet Foundation, the US Internet Caucus and others.

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Manifesto Commitments

This working group provides inputs to those working on policy formation with the main political parties including via the Conservative Technology Forum and the Labour e-Futures and various aligned and non-aligned Think Tanks.

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