Deadline for Awards that help bridge the digital divide fast approaches

Entries for the European e-Inclusion Awards will close on September 12, 2008. Organisations have only two weeks left to submit their entries demonstrating how they have used ICT to help address social and digital divides in Europe.

Real-Time Text Taskforce (R3TF) launched.

R3TF is an open forum for engineers, experts, motivated individuals, companies and organisations who want to help to test, implement, and advance the wide spread adoption of Real-Time Text (RTT).

Staff Working Paper towards a renewed Social Agenda for Europe

On 2 July 2008 as part of the Renewed Social Agenda, the Commission published a Staff Working Paper on the contributions of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to the welfare and social cohesion of European citizens and on the initiatives that the Commission is going to undertake in this area during 2008.

Commission wants a web that is better enabled for the disabled

15% of Europeans suffer from some form of disability, and many face barriers such as reading a website's small text or even knowing how to access websites and online services.

Public consultation on web-accessibility

On 2 July 2008 the European Commission launched a pPublic consultation on web-accessibility and other e-accessibility issues.

EU consults on bringing down mobile phone tariffs in Europe

Aiming to spur competition among operators and lower phone charges for European consumers, the European Commission has started a public consultation on the future regulation of "voice call termination rates" in the EU based on a draft Commission Recommendation on termination rates.