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Case Study:
Work - the Movie
Case Study:
Power of the Mind
Case Study:
Measure to Manage
Case Study:
Growth Market
Forum:
Fifty of the Best |
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 t was Nicole Fontaine, President of the European Parliament, who summed up the importance of the new information and communications technologies to today's and tomorrow's citizens: "Neither the discovery of fire in primitive times, nor the invention of the wheel, electricity, the telephone or radio caused such a rapid leap forward in civilisation. And this new type of economic activity, based on the exploitation of knowledge, is not the preserve of a few educated people, but open to all."
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A rapid leap forward -
Nicole Fontaine, President of the European Parliament, opens IST 2000.
| Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society, took up the theme from the point of view of the producer. To realise the huge potential of the new economy, he pointed out, Europe needs to build an adequate infrastructure, to learn the necessary skills, and to adopt a new state of mind: "The era we are entering is one of intense creativity and innovation," he said. "Economic success will depend on our success in promoting the spirit of enterprise at all levels of industry."
This change of speed requires a corresponding change in the way European policy is conceived and in the way support is delivered in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). "Research financed by the successor of the IST programme must encourage risk-taking and adopt a longer term approach. Its resources must match the importance that information and communication technologies now have, both in the development of our economy and in all areas of research. Finally, to make the programme compatible with the rapid life cycle of the technology it addresses, we must develop faster, more flexible procedures," said Mr Liikanen.
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December 2000 
IST 2000
