Driving the Digital Single Market – EURIM event

I attended the EURIM meeting about Driving the Digital Single Market through the kind invitation ofMEP Malcolm Harbour to the EIF – European Internet Foundation . I was wearing my Policy bloggers network hat. Andrew Griffin also attended the event on behalf of the Policy bloggers network. The meeting was organised at the House of Lords

The event Driving the Digital Single Market organised by The Information Society Alliance (EURIM) aimed to discuss how to join up the many and varied initiatives and directives intended to foster the creation of a globally competitive Digital Single Market into a co-ordinated policy approach at European and Member State level. This meeting was a part of a series of roundtable meetings with key players, with the objective of producing agreed recommendations on policy priorities.

The main objectives on 23rd January were to identify:

- the initiatives that need to be subjected to joined-up scrutiny;

- who is interested in working with who to help achieve this;

- who is willing to help organise such co-operation.

Some of the ideas discussed were:

- Cross cutting topic – enforcement of ecommerce directive for the Digital single market

- Competition law

- Cross border management of VAT

- Cross border management of Taxation

- Consumer rights

- Going for growth

- Digital agenda (in context of the Digital single market)

- Impact on retail and Suppliers

- Radio spectrum release(cross border harmonization and pricing)

- Data protection for the Digital single market

- Identity for the Digital single market

- Cross border Payments and Security for the Digital single market

- Internal v.s. external market – How does internal market work helping global competiveness(external markets)

- Consumer rights and support of business – getting balance right

- Vat on digital books

- Standards for EU market

- Open standards for the Digital single market

- Superfast broadband (as an enabler to the Digital single market)

- Ecommerce of directive – status of and relation to Digital single market

- Hargreaves report

- Digital Certificate management, Electronic invoicing for the Digital single market

There are also a number of papers, which have been used as a basis for the discussion at you can find them HERE and also more resources below. I see this as the start of a discussion and we look forward to participating more in this discussion

Links to relevant resources:

Taking a Global Approach to Information and identity Governance

Identity Challenges in a Single Market (includes attempts to summarise the relevant initiatives)

Review and analyses of current and future European e-ID Schemes

Information and Identity Governance Topics for Masters Students (attempts to list the issues that need study)

Driving the Digital Single Market – EURIM event