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Thierry Nabeth 
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New report from IPTS: EU27 survey of electronic identity, privacy and data protection
Hello,
I have noticed that nobody appears to have mentioned this report from IPTS (the prospective lab of the European Commission).
Here it is:
Pan-European survey of practices, attitudes and policy preferences as regards personal identity data management
Authors: W. Lusoli, M. Bacigalupo, F. Lupiañez, N. Andrade, S. Monteleone, I. Maghiros
[4 June 2012]
Opening data, the boost could be up to 140 billion euros per year.
In an interview Neelie Kroes indicated that by opening data, the boost could be up to 140 billion euros per year (including the indirect gains). (cf. "Neelie Kroes: Information is the new oil!"). This prediction is based on some economic studies by Graham Vickery who heads the Information Economy section of the OECD in Paris.
Maybe we could try starting to be more specific of the types of applications that will generate this value.
Skills for growth
Some ideas from management field that seems to be very applicable in our context is about putting growth directly at the core of our reflection.
In particular:
1° Thinking of more radically models (versus evolutionary) of the digital economy.
2° Importance of new skills (soft-skills, cross-disciplinary, inter-cultural, etc.) more able to manage the growth of organizations.
3° Developing Entrepreneurial mid-sets
Reference:
Digital divide. It is also about the usage
Interesting article about a new form of "Digital divide":
This is not about people not having access to technologies, it is what they are doing about it.
Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era
May 29, 2012, The New York Time
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/us/new-digital-divide-seen-in-wasting-...
Flexibility and security (flexisecurity)
There seems to be a conflict between the protection of the employment, and the flexibility (fluidity) of the job market.
Yet, if I am not wrong, Denmark has managed to combine the two with the concept of flexisecurity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity .
I believe it could be worth to incorporate this (apparent?) conflict in our debate.
A reference:
