European Information Society Awareness Week

The European Information Society Awareness Week will take place on 6-10 May 1996. The Week is organized by the European Commission, DG XXIII, and the Information Society Project Office (DG III and DG XIII), in collaboration with members of the network of Euro-Info Centres and other intermediaries.

The objective of the Week is to promote awareness of the Information Society and its practical implications for businesses, and SMEs in particular, by means of events held throughout the European Union, Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean countries.

The events organized will take account of local needs, and will present the following types of technology:

- General basic services/tools: e-mail, file transfer, EDI, video-conferencing, multimedia, online databases, Internet;
- Electronic commerce: online supply of products/services, electronic transactions, electronic procurement;
- Organization of work/production: teleworking, production planning;
- Education: distance learning, self-training.

Some of the events being held as part of the Week will have satellite link-ups to the "Business on the Web" conference in Paris on 9-10 May (see RTD-News RCN 5840). This conference is part of the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, to be held in Paris in the same week (see RTD-News RCN 5530).
Further information, including a full list of events planned, may be found on the World Wide Web at:

http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/promo/seminar/eisaw.htm(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)

Information may also be obtained from:

European Commission
Mr. Nic Morris
DG XXIII - Enterprise policy, distributive trades, tourism
200 rue de la Loi
B-1049 Brussels
Fax +32-2-2300520
E-mail: eichdt@belgium.eu.net

or

European Commission
Mr. Jan Hens
Information Society Project Office
200 rue de la Loi
B-1049 Brussels
Fax +32-2-2994170
E-mail: jhe@ispo.cec.be