European Commission ICT Task Force 2006
An ICT Task Force was launched in 2006 to create a favourable environment for business, growth and jobs in the EU. The European Commission invited representatives from the ICT industry, trade unions, SMEs, chambers of commerce, consumers, investors, and academia to form an ICT Task Force to: identify major obstacles to the ICT sector's competitiveness and the uptake of ICT; help mobilise the sector and draw the attention of Member States to the obstacles identified; and recommend possible policy responses.
The EU ICT Task Force addressed the following topics: ICT uptake; IPR for competitiveness and innovation; innovation in R&D, manufacturing and services; SMEs and entrepreneurship; skills and employability; and achieving a single market. Six working groups were created to analyse these topics and prepare summary topic papers.
The recommendations of the ICT task Force were incorporated in the Thessaloniki Declaration adopted at the European e-skills Conference in 2006.
