Friday, February 25, 2011

The contours of the future National Council of Digital unveiled

Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to improve dialogue between Tech News Buzz policy and new technology sector, the National Council of the digital future (CNN) is the subject of a report submitted to the government Friday, February 25. "This council will be consulted on all draft laws and regulations and the government action in the areas of information society", said Industry Minister Eric Besson.

"We expect an order of appointment of its members in the next two or three weeks in March," he also said the report's author, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, co-founder of the commercial site Priceminister. com, and appointed by the Government to consult on its implementation. "The big problem is: what will the cast, so what is their legitimacy, which is an essential condition for the council to be effective?" He said, arguing its side so that these members are elected.

"Personally, I'm fairly limited to a committee of ten or twelve people," he said. EXPLORATION AND TRANSMISSION The mission of this new advisory body is twofold. First, CNN should take into account "the voice of this industry that many jobs (...) represents a real challenge for growth and innovation in France," the report said.

On the other hand it should enable the authorities to "find interlocutors with whom to exchange, with respect to the fragmentation of the digital representation of actors." In this context, the CNN "must have a proactive role: to participate in the definition of digital policy" of France by sending such proposals to the government and parliament, and playing the role of "transmission belt" between industry players and authorities.

But this body to advise the authorities especially the "earliest possible" to "any project" legislation (draft law, decree or statutory instrument). "AVOID CONFRONTATION SYSTEMATIC" Recalling the laws governing the Internet (Loppsi) and illegal downloading (Hadopi), or the project - now suspended - to tax the purchases of online advertising space in the last Finance Act ( "Google tax"), the report argues that these are "examples where players of the digital economy have opposed, often severely, a public policy initiative or parliamentary government." Being consulted ahead, "we can avoid confrontation systematic." Its composition must reflect "a real economic dimension", has also pleaded M.

Kosciusko-Morizet in the report, while offering that includes representatives of consumers, telecom operators, equipment manufacturers, intermediaries techniques such as hosting and shopping sites or media.

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