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"Information and communication technologies (ICT) play crucial roles in responding to global challenges and helping us to develop a shared vision of the type of society in which we wish to live. Sustainable solutions to problems such as energy supply, logistics, health care, security, water and food supply and climate change require multinational cross-functional initiatives in technology, policy, collaboration and innovation. Some nations are already more advanced in devising national solutions, although they are not always those where the adverse impacts of these problems are currently most acute, and many challenges are strongly related to developments across national boundaries."

This report contains the proceedings of a conference that was held in Belgium in April 2001, and focused on the information revolution in Europe. The participants argued that the information revolution is following a different course in Europe than in America, and is proceeding more slowly

This report explores whether and how the Freedom of Information Act's inclusion of electronic data is affecting (or expected to affect) US federal agency procedures, with special attention to the implications for interactions with citizens and private-sector organizations

Interaction through online social networks potentially results in the contestation of prevailing ideas about health and health care, and to mass protest where health is put at risk or health care provision is wanting. Through a review of the academic literature and case studies of four social networking health sites (PatientsLikeMe, Mumsnet, Treatment Action Campaign, and My Pro Ana), we establish the extent to which this phenomenon is documented, seek evidence of the prevalence and character of health‐related networks, and explore their structure, function, participants, and impact, seeking to understand how they came into being and how they sustain themselves. Results indicate mass protest is not arising from these established health‐related networking platforms. There is evidence of changes in policy following campaigning activity prompted by experiences shared through social networking such as improved National Health Service care for miscarriage (a Mumsnet campaign). Platform owners and managers have considerable power to shape these campaigns. Social networking is also influencing health policy indirectly through increasing awareness and so demand for health care. Transient social networking about health on platforms such as Twitter were not included as case studies but may be where the most radical or destabilizing influence on health care policy might arise.