CEPIS website to align with EU digital accessibility directive
CEPIS is working with the University of Alcalá to align the CEPIS website with the EU Directives 2016/2102 and 2019/882 on digital accessibility.
2020 .eu Web Awards virtual gala held 16 December
The .eu Web Awards gala will be held on 16 December 20:30 to 21:40 virtually from Teatro Verdi in Pisa.
CEPIS calls for the right to encrypt
CEPIS’ Legal and Security Issues Special Interest Network (LSI SIN) calls for the rejection of a planned resolution in the Council of Ministers, which would grant authorities special access to encrypted communication between EU citizens. The special access, or ‘master key’, will weaken end-to-end encryption, and endangers digitisation in Europe, the LSI network warns.
Commission publishes eGovernment report
The European Commission has published the eGovernment benchmark report for 2020. It shows that digital delivery of public services has improved during the last two years across Europe.
All public websites must be accessible from now
As of 23 September 2020, all public sector websites are required to be accessible to Internet users with disabilities.
Commission President commits to invest 20% of NextGenerationEU in digital
The President of the European Commission gave her annual State of the Union address. She emphasised the importance of digital in the (post)pandemic times and committed to spend 20% of the Next Generation EU budget on digital matters.
Internet industry calls for more European tech sovereignty
The Internet industry organisation ‘ECO’ has called for more European sovereignty over developments in technology, which is causing disruption across the region and the world.
Participate in survey on perception of AI by IT Professionals
The CEPIS expert group on Information Society has prepared a survey on the perception of Artificial Intelligence (AI) of IT professionals.
