Anticipating the collective volume "Europe 2.0 perspectives and developments in the European dream," Nicole and Simone Vallinoto Vannuccini (ed.), Shadows Court, Verona, May 2010. From Chapter
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Internet, Europe and digital rights
Arturo Di Corinto *
What the digital revolution has changed the way people think, work, earn money or having fun is now a common understanding.
The digitization of content and networks has created new industries, new markets, promoted a new relationship between rulers and ruled, and created new modes of social organization and division of labor. Changes that are now under the name of Society, all-purpose term used to indicate the increasing role that information and communication take on in the social, economic and global policy. However, these changes that have radically altered the world of research, education, commerce, media, cultural industries, have not only created new wealth, but also great poverty, helping to reshape the geopolitical world.
Romancing the framework of the information superhighway Clinton's memory, Europe has tried to take a leading role in this process through the so-called "Lisbon Strategy". Yet, despite the bombastic ads, such a strategy, which aimed to transform Europe's largest economy in the digital world, seems to have failed miserably because of the inability to make the system the potential of its Member States, with a rich and active civil society, an entrepreneurial dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises, and a competition-oriented regulatory framework of markets, but also to tolerance, diversity and freedom.
were many events over the years have prevented Europe become a cherished place in Lisbon. The jealousies of national states, the pressing of lobbyists, the anti-competitive behavior of many companies, the inclination of many countries to violate human rights of its citizens, the failure to reap the benefits of innovation socially produced. Preventing the proper osmosis between basic research and applied research, the synergies between research centers, public and private, and research and development departments of large enterprises and between them and local authorities, instead of Europe forward, retreats. In addition to this, the inability to speak to the territories, institutions with weak financial structure and investment, difficulties in accessing credit from banks located round up the lost opportunities to develop a healthy economy informational. Quite the opposite of what was happening in places like California that is not by chance, while a "small states", with the ability to invest in research, technology and innovation, is the ninth in the world economy.
The digitization of content and networks has created new industries, new markets, promoted a new relationship between rulers and ruled, and created new modes of social organization and division of labor. Changes that are now under the name of Society, all-purpose term used to indicate the increasing role that information and communication take on in the social, economic and global policy. However, these changes that have radically altered the world of research, education, commerce, media, cultural industries, have not only created new wealth, but also great poverty, helping to reshape the geopolitical world.
Romancing the framework of the information superhighway Clinton's memory, Europe has tried to take a leading role in this process through the so-called "Lisbon Strategy". Yet, despite the bombastic ads, such a strategy, which aimed to transform Europe's largest economy in the digital world, seems to have failed miserably because of the inability to make the system the potential of its Member States, with a rich and active civil society, an entrepreneurial dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises, and a competition-oriented regulatory framework of markets, but also to tolerance, diversity and freedom.
were many events over the years have prevented Europe become a cherished place in Lisbon. The jealousies of national states, the pressing of lobbyists, the anti-competitive behavior of many companies, the inclination of many countries to violate human rights of its citizens, the failure to reap the benefits of innovation socially produced. Preventing the proper osmosis between basic research and applied research, the synergies between research centers, public and private, and research and development departments of large enterprises and between them and local authorities, instead of Europe forward, retreats. In addition to this, the inability to speak to the territories, institutions with weak financial structure and investment, difficulties in accessing credit from banks located round up the lost opportunities to develop a healthy economy informational. Quite the opposite of what was happening in places like California that is not by chance, while a "small states", with the ability to invest in research, technology and innovation, is the ninth in the world economy.
continues in the book.
* Arturo Di Corinto. "The Sole24ore", "PeaceReporter", "Point-Computer." Author of books and essays on open source collective work, copyright and technological innovation. He is the author of Revolution OS II, the first Italian film about open source. President of the Free Hardware Foundation Rome. Cognitive psychologist, has taught and researched at Stanford University and La Sapienza University in Rome. He has participated in many campaigns for the promotion and protection of freedom of European digital. Sites: www.frontieredigitali.net; fhf.it; www.dicorinto.it.
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