01 Krise der 90er Jahre

	Krise der 90er Jahre - Looking at the whole picture

Die Präsentation des europäischen Wegs in die Informationsgesellschaft im Internet 1994/1995:

As telecommunications and computer companies are busy cementing alliances around the world and governments prepare their people for the information age, national solutions seem irrelevant. Of what use today is a network which stops at the national frontier? After all, the concept of a network is based on the idea of interconnection and open access. It is clear that an international approach should be adopted. The United States, Japan, Canada, and the EU have all launched information society initiatives. Their goal is to connect people, businesses, schools, universities, libraries, hospitals to a world wide network which will be part of a Global Information Society.

But the European approach to preparing for the Information Age goes beyond the implementation of a regulatory framework or the creation of an information infrastructure in a technological and economic sense. The concept of “information society” expresses the European Union’s desire to look at the whole picture. Our approach stems from Europe’s original social model which is based on a constant search for a balance between economic and social requirements.

1994: The Information Society is Launched

	The White Paper
	The Bangemann Report
	The Corfu Conclusions
	The Action Plan
	The Essen Conclusions

In 1994, the European Union pushed ahead with the Information Society agenda in a number of ways: the White Paper which linked the creation of a common information space in Europe to the goals of Growth, Competitivenes and Employment; the Bangemann Report, prepared by a high level group of industrialists, which concluded that liberalisation should be accelerated and that the private sector should pick up the bill for most of the investments necessary for the information society; the Action Plan which was prepared at the request of the Corfu European Council and set out the Commission’s ambitious programme for Europe’s entry into the information society; and the year ended with the Essen Conclusions which provided the European Council with a report on the progress achieved so far.