he European Commission today outlined the main steps that
Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution
that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking,
the decisive shift to on-line business services, nomadic services based on GPS
and mobile TV and the growth of smart tags. The report shows that Europe is well
placed to exploit these trends because of its policies to support open and
pro-competitive telecom networks as well as privacy and security.