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"Mr President, I must apologise to the Commissioner because, as she probably knows, I do not normally make a practice of turning up just in time to speak. Unusually, everything has run very early tonight. I am pleased to be here to support Mrs Trautmann’s report, particularly because I was part of the delegation that went to the first World Summit on the Information Society in December 2003 with her distinguished predecessor, Erkki Liikanen. I was privileged to be there in the great chamber in Geneva when he made a very eloquent speech on behalf of the European Union.
I can tell colleagues from that experience that it is quite clear how respected the European Union has been and continues to be within the whole process of developing the work of the information society. It has given a clear lead to other member states as well. I am sure that Commissioner Reding will want to continue that important tradition, because there is much work to be done.
I want to underline two points that were emphasised to me during that time in Geneva. The first is the importance of our research programme and spreading that research programme out to the less-developed world. There are many computer scientists struggling with totally inadequate facilities who would really like to be on our research networks and working with our research scientists. I know that part of the next generation of the ‘Geant’ programme, which the Commissioner launched last week, will address that issue. I cannot overstate the importance of that, particularly because we want those computer scientists to develop the tools, products, services and new ideas that will help their communities, whether it is in health, education or other forms of local service provision, particularly over a very widespread area and one where communications are very light.
Secondly, there is the importance of encouraging them to have a competitive infrastructure for telecommunications, to bring those costs down, to encourage competition so they can have the same access as us to plentiful, cheap services. If we can achieve those two things, along with the other things, it will be a tremendous advance for all those countries."@en1
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