Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-293"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-12-13"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20001213.10.3-293"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-13-Speech-3-2942
lpv:speaker	lp:Geneviève Fraisse2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Indépendant (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in the course of these two minutes, I should just like very briefly to emphasise first of all that this e-content programme is coming about, let us not forget, in the wake of the Lisbon and Feira Councils which, where e-Europe is concerned, concluded in particular that this new economy needed to be founded upon knowledge which favours integration and overcomes the digital divide. I should also like us to remember, when devising this e-content programme, that we are concerned not only with information but also with knowledge and, moreover, with knowledge which favours integration and prevents social division. That is why I have proposed a lot of amendments to emphasise the importance of access for all. As has been said, information ought of course to be available to businesses, but it ought also to be accessible to everyone. I therefore want us to emphasise the possible democratic aspect of digital content or e-content. Secondly, I should like to point out to the Commission that it chose not to define the term ‘digital content’ and that this gives me grounds for concern. I should like to know what will be included under the heading of ‘content’. If we include only content useful to businesses, particularly meteorological and geographical content (as is extremely desirable), it must not of course be forgotten that, where content intended for citizens is concerned, it is a much more complicated matter than of simply taking information useful to businesses. Citizens are involved because content relating to the arts, education, sport, tourism and so on, seems to me to be just as important. In implementing the programme, I therefore want us to have a requirement for a definition of what may constitute digital content. It is in fact necessary to show concern for everyone. This means that digital content offers an opportunity to all those who have not had access to schooling, be it lifelong training or because they are handicapped, and I want digital content to make a better approach to such people possible. To conclude, why deprive ourselves of digital content? Cultural and linguistic diversity is served by the e-content economic project, and I am pleased to know that we shall be able to support linguistic diversity thanks to digital content."@en1

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