fyi- Europe and the Global Information Infrastructure: Holland

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Subject: Europe and the Global Information Infrastructure: Holland
>
>Last week the Dutch government announced its National Information
>Actionplan. Its purpose is to help Dutch entrepreneurs to take full
>advantage of the opportunities offered by the emerging global information
>infrastructure.
>The Action Plan consists of several demonstration projects in both public
>and private sectors.
>
>The key project for education is BVEnet - a network which will connect all
>institutions of (secondary) vocational education, adult education and
>workplace training to the Internet and which will concentrate on new ways
>of learning and teaching in a knowledge-based society. After almost twelve
>months of preparation this project has now officially been launched. :-))))
>
>More info on the National Information Actionplan can be found at URL:
>http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/nap/home.html
>This web page also has info about the discussion list on the action plan.
>
>The Dutch action plan is one of the first results of an effort started mid
>1994 by the European Union (Bangemann Report, an Action Plan from the
>European Commission). More info on European activities can be found at URL:
>http://www.echo.lu/
>
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>                       Frans Hoffman - hoffman@xs4all.nl
>                    Ministry of Education - The Netherlands
>                             project advisor BVEnet
>