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Mr President, the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats sets great store by this House’s active involvement in the second world summit on the information society. After Geneva, we have now reached a second phase. We therefore greatly appreciate Mrs Trautmann’s own-initiative report and also her way of going about things. Although she managed to organise the dialogue between the groups in a very fruitful and sound manner, she also knows that we have some critical comments to make about the presentation of the report.
The title of the report ‘On the information society’ is very ambitious and broad indeed, but what is it about? It is about Parliament expressing an opinion and making its contribution to the conference of 16 to 18 November 2005. That is why we suggested she should choose less ambitious and more direct wording along the lines of ‘The world summit on the information society, second phase’. This would also be more in keeping with Mrs Reding’s communication. As I said, our group greatly appreciates this discussion and active participation.
Access to the Internet, special attention to ICT and education all over the world, on-line government and truly participatory democracy are crucial. High-level ICT is not only central to our Lisbon agenda but also, and specifically, to its implications for the developing countries. A combination of education and development of networks and corresponding services is of major importance for developing countries. We would do well to consider what support the EU can offer in this context.
I would now like to turn to the instruments that we discussed. The PPE-DE Group advocates a framework of independent regulatory authorities guaranteeing access, freedom of expression and information, cultural diversity and multilingualism. We are therefore opposed to even more rules and regulations, and we support the existing current basis for on-line government. Having also debated the free and public search programmes, we will not be backing the amendments that have been tabled concerning them.
Last week, as we just heard, Mrs Reding unfolded her plans for
2010. She places ICT in the context of the development of economic growth and job creation, and this something that we welcome. This is where economic growth and a social model fit together very well. In
2010, the emphasis is on a competitive and open internal market, on increasing EU investments, information and communication technology and on promoting a universally accessible information society in order to narrow the gap between the haves and have-nots. This is what ties in with EU policy, for the gap is still enormous.
We in the PPE-DE Group are very keen that there should be projects at global level to flesh out, and it goes without saying that this means that a financial basis is urgently needed. It can hardly be said that the past weeks have increased confidence in this area. That will be the subject of a follow-up debate."@en1
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