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Welcome to Digital Europe

The Digital Europe project was completed in 2003. This website remains a useful resource but is no longer being updated.

What was Digital Europe?

Digital Europe was a panEuropean research project investigating the impacts of ebusiness on sustainable development.

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Links

Digital Europe featured in Nature magazine. To read the article visit www.nature.com (opens in new window)

Digital Europe featured on BBC News Online. To read the article visit news.bbc.co.uk (opens in new window)

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Making the Net Work book coverMaking the Net Work published

A book based on the findings of the Digital Europe project is now availa ble. To find out how to purchase your copy visit the publications page here


Venice conference

The project's final conference was held on 3-4 July 2003.

Link icon Download presentations here
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Read news article here 

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Read BBC Online article here


Final theme reports and summaries published

Link icon Case study on digital music available to download
Link icon  Publication downloads page
Link icon  View Summary report page

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Resources

This website has a number of resources for visitors including an archive of news items on ICTs and sustainable development, commentaries on the key issues and interviews with experts and decision-makers including Erkki Liikanen, Prof. David Crystal, Kate Oakley, Malcolm Forbes and Arto Karila.
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Information Society Technology programme logo

Digital Europe - ebusiness and sustainable development (DEESD) is funded by the European Community under the 'Information Society Technology' Programme (1998-2002) no. IST-2000-28606

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related news...

Digital in Venice: the final conference
11 July 2003

Small is not necessarily beautiful
20 March 2003

Digital Europe: into the final lap
31 January 2003

related publications...

The environmental impacts of mobile computing: a case study with HP
17 June 2003

Comparative regional case study
16 June 2003

Inclusion in the Information Society: case study with AOL
16 June 2003

Mobile phones and social capital in Poland: case study with Vodafone Group
16 June 2003

Social and environmental impacts of ebanking: case study with Barclays PLC
16 June 2003

Telework and sustainable development: a case study with GeSI
16 June 2003

Is ebusiness good business? Survey key findings
22 May 2003

Cymru Ar-lein and sustainable development
7 April 2003

Project theme report: Ebusiness and sustainable regional development in Europe
19 March 2003

Project theme report: Social responsibility in the information society
19 March 2003

Project theme report: Virtual dematerialisation - ebusiness and factor X
19 March 2003

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