EU: Digital expansion released this week

By David Haworth Opportunities for research funding into the next generation of digital technologies have been unveiled this week with the European Union's (EU) executive, the European Commission publishing a long awaited report on Next Generation Networks (NGN). This should reveal the EU's plans for implementing the next generation of high-speed Internet connections. Much is riding on what EU digital agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes hopes will be a flagship policy, which will pave the way for a fully digital internal electronic communications and media market ...


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