The competitiveness of the modern nations and that of the European states in particular leans on the technological development and the use of networked facilities. The advent of the traditional internet was a gigantic leap in the working habits and procedures in the organisations. However, the original model is depleting and the growing demands of bandwidth and complexity of services required hint that there must be a breakthrough in the infrastructure of the Internet soon. Acknowledging this fact, the EC do not want to lag behind the technological development but to lead the change to position Europe in a favourable situation to face the challenges of the future. Hence, the EC has made an appeal to European wide action to ensure the competiveness of the ICT sector in Europe. The conference recently held in BLED, hosted by the Slovenian Government is a first step to start building this initiative.
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