Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-24-Speech-3-281"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Re-use of public sector documents2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030924.8.3-281"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-24-Speech-3-2822
lpv:speaker	lp:Reino Paasilinna2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Mr van Velzen has again worked skilfully. He does so smoothly and shrewdly and the results just pour out. I wish to thank him for that. There are many kinds of information, and public information is one. Administrative data must obviously be free of charge to the public and it has to be obtainable from one place, or portal. As far as the business world is concerned, it will obviously pay for renewal to be possible at the point where information is created, thus getting a return on investment. This is an important area. It is estimated that public sector information is worth in the region of EUR 70 billion a year and the content industry employs about four million people in the European Union. That is a lot. This market is worth more than EUR 400 billion. Even the value of the mobile communications industry is set to rise in the near future to around EUR 20 million in terms of its content, and that is content on a relatively tiny scale. Knowledge and information are the most important factors in a democracy and an economy. The fact that we are saturated with information separates us from the less well-off. It is a security factor and an instrument of war. ‘Information poverty’ hits the same people as social poverty. Would the chance of a little charity not help? After all, information does not shrink at the point from which it is distributed to others, no matter how much of it is shared. I would furthermore like to ask the Commissioner whether this could not be one new element in our development assistance programme: the sharing of information and knowledge, because we will not have any less of it even if we share it with others."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph