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• European Commission´s Information Society Directorate-General
• European Commission´s Information Society eEurope archive site
• ISPO -Information Society Project Office (archived website) The Information Society Project Office aims to promote co-operation and development in the various areas of the Information Society. ISPO acts as a bridgebuilder between Commission Services and external organizations interested in the Information Society. ISPO is part of the Information Society Activity Centre. ISAC is jointly established by DG Industry and DG Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research (respectively DGIII and XIII of the European Commission).
• "eEurope 2005: An information society for all"- An Action Plan to be presented in view of the Sevilla European Council
• "eEurope 2002: An Information Society for all" An Action Plan accepted by the European Commission at Lisbon, agreed by Heads of State and Government in Feira sets out a roadmap to achieve eEurope's targets.
• eEurope+ At the occasion of the launch of the eEurope+ (eEurope Plus) Action Plan on 16 June 2001 in Gothenburg, the European Commission warmly welcomed the political undertaking of the Heads of State of the EU Candidate Countries to embrace the challenges of the knowledge-based economy. The eEurope+ Action Plan aims to assist in accelerating reform and modernisation of the economies in the Candidate Countries through the use of Information Society technologies and tools. It is mirrored on the eEurope 2002 Action Plan of the EU-15 but with additions and changes of the objectives, actions and timetable to reflect the economic and social situation in the Candidate Countries.
  
• "Information Society: Connecting Europe" - European Ministerial Conference, Ljubljana, 3-4 June 2002
• "Information Society: Accelerating European Integration" - European Ministerial Conference, Warsaw, 11-12 May 2000
  Riport on conference
• Information Society and the Candidate Countries - Former site: JHLC: EU-CEEC Joint High Level Committee
• Links to websites dealing with the Information Society
• Irish presidency website
• ECHO: I*M-EUROPE acts as a medium for supporting the actions of DGXIII of the European Commission in stimulating the European electronic information services market and multimedia content industries
• ECHO: I*M-EUROPE Information market calls for proposals and tenders
• Welcome to Europa
• WWW Servers in EU Offices in the World
• Research at the European Commission
• Cooperation with Third Countries and International Organisations
  Scientific and technological cooperation in Europe the aim of which is to strengthen links with COST, EUREKA and certain international organizations. In connection with PHARE and TEMPUS there will also be activities concerning the Central and Eastern Europeancountries and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union in order to safeguard their scientific and technical potential;
• Internal Cooperation (DG XII)
  • COST European Cooperation in the fields of Scientific and Technical research, Hungary activity since 1991
  • PECO Information Society and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary activity 1992-1994
  • INCO International cooperation appears increasingly as one essential dimension of EU activity in the field of technological research and development (RTD). It is in this context that the 4th Framework Programme (1994-1998) made changes, by establishing a specific RTD programme "Cooperation with third countries and international organizations". Scientific and technical co-operation in information technology, advanced communications and telematics, as part of the Fourth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (second action line, International Co-operation programme or INCO ) - the part dealing with Central and Eastern Europe is called INCO Copernicus, Hungary activity 1995-1998.
• CORDIS - COmmunity Research and Development Information Service -
• The fourth RTD Framework Programme - Overview
  Research programmes and related sites Information and Communications Technologies
  • ACTS
  • ESPRIT 4
  • TELEMATICS 2C
• The fifth RTD Framework Programme
  • IST - Information Society Technologies Programme
    Research, technology development and demonstration under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme
  • Hungarian homepage of IDEAL-IST and of the Hungarian IST Liaison Office (ISTOK)
  • Slide Presentation (in Hungarian)
• Planning the future (FP6 & ERA): the Sixth Framework Programme will span the period 2002-2006 to replace the current Fifth Framework Programme. The FP6 will be one of the most important instruments to implement the ERA-The European Research Area (prepatory documents, strategy, guidelines, contributions for EU research activities (2000-2006).
• EUREKA, launched in 1985, Hungary since 1992, has already changed the face of pan-European cooperative research and development. It is a framework through which industry and research institutes from 25 European countries and the European Commission develop and exploit the technologies crucial to global competitiveness and a better quality of life.
• EU Programmes
  
• PROMISE - Promoting the Information Society in Europe

• OECD Online
• OECD DSTI Home Page
• OECD Science, Technology and Industry Information&Communication Policy
• Free Online Documents

• Information Society and the Candidate Countries - Former site: JHLC: EU-CEEC Joint High Level Committee
• G8 Government On-Line
• International Council for Information Technology in Government Administration
• IDA - Interchange of Data beetween Administrations
• Government Strategies and the new information technologies
• Electronic Government- How IT are improving services in the public sector
• Green Paper on Public Sector Information in the Information Society
• Convergence of the Telecommunication, Media and Information Technology sectors

• Bangemann Report Europe and the information society: recommendations to the European Council
  (24-25 June 1994 in Corfu)
• The European Commission publishes regularly Green and White Papers.
  Green & White Paper in the area of the Information Society published by the European Commission
  http://www.itu.int/ Green Paper is a document presented for public discussion and debate.
  White Paper is a document presenting a detailed and debated policy both for discussion and political decision.
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• The G-7 Information Society Conference was in Brussels, Belgium on 25-26 February 1995.
• Information Society Forum The European Commission decided to set up the Forum in February 1995 in order to create a new and authoritative source of reflection, debate and advice on the challenges of the Information Society. (Final rev: 5/7/96)
• EU-CEEC Forum on the Information Society
  Panel on the Implementation of the Action Plan in Prague, 13-14 September 1996.
• INFO 2000 aims at stimulating the emerging multimedia content industry to recognise and exploit new business opportunities. The central theme is the development of a European information content industry capable of competing on a global scale, and able to satisfy the needs of Europe's enterprises and citizens for information content, leading, on the one hand, to economic growth, competitiveness and employment, and, on the other hand, to individual, professional, social, and cultural development.
• EUROPE'S ROLLING ACTION PLAN FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY
  
• AGENDA 2000 - Commission Opinion on Hungary's Application for Membership of the European Union
• Documents on European Integration of Hungary from Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Agenda2000, NPAA, Regular Riport...)
• Enlargement
• Citizens first
• European Digital Cities
• Building the European Information Society for us all
  Final policy report of the high-level expert group (April 1997)
• The Global Inventory Project is a "one stop facility" linking distributed national and international inventories of projects, studies and other activities relevant to the promotion and the further development of knowledge and understanding of the Information Society.
• Search the EU servers
  including: I*M-EUROPE, CORDIS, EUROPA, EUROPARL and ISPO
• Eurodicautom is the multilingual terminological database of the Commission's Translation Service. Initially developed to assist in-house translators, it is consulted today by an increasing number of EU officials other than translators, as well as by language professionals throughout the world (ECHO).
• A GLOSSARY OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND EUROPEAN UNION
  Acronyms, Initiatives, Institutions, Policies, Programmes, Terms
• Financial Instrument
  For Information Society Projects and Action
• European Interconnect Atlas
• ITU - International Telecommunication Union

• Links to National Information Society Plans and Strategies
• EU Member States Information Society Strategies - collected by ESIS
• Points of Interest by Country from G-7

• Starting point for Hungary Hungarian Home Page
• Hungarian Response to the Challenge of the Information Society - Study in Hungarian, 1999
• Széchenyi Plan - National Development Plan (previous) and NFT - Planning the (new) National Development Plan
• NIIFP National Information Infrastructure Development Programme
  for Research, Development, Higher Education, Public Libraries and Public Collections in Hungary
• H-BONE (Hungarian Backbone) infrastructure and the new NIIF supercomputer infrastructure.
• TEN 34 is a Milestone in the European Research Networking Program. Hungary has been taking part in this Program since jun. 1997, as the first CEE country and joined to TEN-155 network in 1998, (within the QUANTUM Project) and the (futher development of TEN-155) GEANT: The Next Generation of European Research Networking.
• HUNGARNET is an association and also the computer network of Hungarian institutions of higher education, research and development, libraries and other public collections.
• Hungarian domain registration - NIC
• Council of Hungarian Internet Providers
• Hungarian CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)
• The Hungary Chapter of the Internet Society
• GIS - Geographic Information Systems Programme; Programme was partly promoted by the National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB)
  
• IKTA A Programme for Financial Support in the Field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) was launched on 17 February 1997, by the National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB) The Strategy were prepared in consideration of the tasks of OMFB which aim at the enhancement of generating and acquiring new knowledge, adopting modern technologies, raising the financial and intellectual receptivity, introducing applications of public interest, providing a common (non-market based) financial and intellectual infrasructure, providing equal chances for entrepreneurs, overcoming cultural drawbacks, providing technical and professional framework for legal harmonisation and standardisation, profiting from international cooperation, achieving European integration;
• IS Projects in Hungary
• Hungarian Technology Foresight Programme - TEP (Technológiai Előretekintési Program) in hungarian
• Sulinet an Internet Programme for Hungary Secondary Schools of the Ministry of Culture and Education. The Schoolnet Programme was launched on 1 September 1996, at the opening ceremony of the academic year.
• Országos Felsőoktatási Felvételi IrodaO
• IT in the Administration / Government (ITB)
• Ministry of Informatics and Telecommunication previously Office of the Government Comissioner for Information and Communication Technology
• Governmental Portal-Kormányzati Portál e-Government - Elektronikus Kormányzat (old site)
• InfoHelpDesk
• Terminology
• Civil Information Service of the Prime Minister's Office
• Local governments - Önkormányzatok
• Searchable Databases on the Web
• Regulation issues on the KVM and the HIF -Communication Authority- website.
• Nemzeti Hírközlési és Informatikai Tanács-NHIT
• FEMIRC for Hungary (Fellow Member to Innovation Relay Centres for Hungary).
• ECDL, by NJSZT - John von Neumann Computer Society
• Hungarian Electronic Library - MEK
• Neumann Digital Library - Neumann Ház
• National Cultural Fund
• Digital Academy - Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia
• Collection of Information on Hungarian Culture
• Smart Card Forum (Intelligens Kártya Fórum) old or new page
• Telecottage Hungary
• Teleworking Public Service new page
• National Union of Intelligent Cities (ITOSZ)
• National Council For Distance Education
• UNIWORLD - A Virtual University
• HUSITA-Human Service Information Technology Applications
• Honlap Vakok szamara - Homepage for blind people
• Content and News services ( Prim-online, Index, Origo, Korridor, Stop)
• Internet in Hungary 1999. Situation Report and Suggestions

• Nicholas Negroponte: Being Digital
• Alvin Toffler and other Futurists
• The Information Society (TIS) journal
• Hotwired
• Connected
• Wired
• InternetWorld
• The Scout Report
• CMC Magazine
• Internet Times Newsletter
• Stand from Euroweb
• ISPO Newsletter

• Euro Info Center Budapest
• I S I S - Information Society Initiatives in Standardization
• E S I S - European Survey of Information Society
• European Initiatives on Free Software
• EITO: European Information Technology Observatory
• Information Society Trends
• Foresight programmes - for instance in UK
• Information Market Observatory (IMO)
• Nua Internet Surveys
• The "Measuring Information Society" Eurobarometer
• NGI Initiative Home Page
• Internet2
• Networked Computing for the 21st Century
• El.Pub - electronic publishing R&D news and resources
• Internet Histories
• Official ECU exchange rates calculated and published by the European Commission
• Magyar-angol EU-szótár
• Translate machine

• IKTA Project Descriptions in ESIS form
• Project Proposals for Cooperation
• Search at GIP for Hungary
• Projects at ESIS-HU database

Discussion list on ICT (in Hungarian)

• IKTA Fórum
• Helpful materials about E-Mail Discussion Groups

• "Az Internet világa" című könyvről
• Előadás a Magyar Brit Jogász Egyesület felkérérésére az Internet jogi és technikai rejtelmeiről (1995.okt13.)
• Elek László - Magyar Rádió (1996. nov.) - beszélgetése Lengyel Veronikával az "Internet világának" érdekességeiről, veszélyeiről, emberi és technikai oldalának újdonságairól (a hálózati számítógép - NC- jövőjéről) a Kossuth Rádió "Háló" című műsorában.
• Presentation at the Stellenbosch University (on 16 May 1996) about the Internet in Hungary
• "Az IKTA és a hálózatok világa" Lengyel Veronika előadása az Internetgalaxis'97 rendezvényen (1997. febr 27-márc 5) a Szépművészeti Múzeumban.
• Napilapok/szakfolyóiratok cikkei a "Magyar Válasz az Információs Társadalom kihívásaira" című tanulmányról továbbá
  "Az Információs társadalom Magyarországon" és "Az informatika hazai helyzete és jövőképe" címmel dr. Lajtha György két összeállítása a (Magyar Távközlés 99/9)-ben, valamint szerkesztőségi összeállítás térinformatikusi szemmel a "Magyar Válasz" című tanulmányról (Térinformatika 2000/4).
• MENTA' 99 IVSZ Menedzser Találkozó (Club Tihany, 1999. szept. 24-26): "Informatika a harmadik évezred elején" kerekasztal-beszélgetés. Moderátor: Havass Miklós MTESZ alelnök. Résztvevők: Antal Mihály EURESCOM, HIF elnöki tanácsadó testület, Lengyel Veronika Miniszterelnöki Hivatal kormányfőtanácsadó, Dr. Mojzes Imre 2000 év kormánybiztos, Dr. Pap László BME villamosmérnöki kar dékán, Straub Elek Matáv Rt. vezérigazgató, Tomka János KPMG Consulting partner, Terry Waldbeesser az IMFA meghívott vendége
• "Álmodjunk nagyot": a Nemzeti Teleház Program koncepciójának zsürije (1999. nov. 17.)
  Felkért zsüri: Balog László (Jászkiséri Teleház), Bódi Antal, Bognár Vilmos (OMFB), Horvát János, Kissné Pásztor Irma (Szentpéterszegi Teleház), Kovács Győző (zsürielnök), Lengyel Veronika (MEH), Szegvári Péter(MEH), Varga Csaba (HÉA Str. Kut).
• "Kriminálexpo'99" (BME, 1999. jún 10.): Lengyel Veronika előadása "Az állami informormatika stratégiai kérdései az integráció tükrében" címmel.
• Compfair'99": Fórum a mindenkori kormányzat szerepéről az információs társadalom kiépítésében (1999. okt. 11). Szervező: Teleház Szövetség, Meghívottak: Lengyel Veronika (Meh). Dombi Gábor (IÉF), Kovács Győző (Teleház Szövetség), Magyar Bálint (SzDSz), Báti Ferenc (IBM), Karádi Pál (KFKI), Kóka János (Elender) (1999.okt.11).
• Könyvfesztivál(2000. ápr. 21-23.), Bp. Kongresszusi Központ): "Ember az információs társadalomban". Az MKE Műszaki Szekció kerekasztal beszélgetése. Moderátor: Balogh Margit, a szekció elnöke. Résztvevők: Fehér Miklós könyvtárigazgató, Lengyel Veronika kormányfőtanácsadó, Dr. Majtényi László adatvédelmi ombudsman, Nagy Attila olvasásszociológus, Dr. Páli Judit pszichológus, Dr. Vámos Tibor akadémikus
• A Szent Ignác szakkollégium szimpóziuma: A számítógépes kultúra küszöbén" (2000. márc. 18-19.)
  "A demokrácia kiterjesztése - egyszerűsödő ügyintézés?" kerekasztal beszélgetés. Vitavezető: Zöldné Roska Marietta MEH helyettes államtitkár. Résztvevők: Marián Béla szociálpszichológus, Marketing Centrum, Varga Csaba, igazgató HÉA Stratégiakutató Intézet,Balogh Zsolt Pécsi Tudományegyetem Jogi Kar, Vándor Tamás informatikai tanácsadó Oktatási Minisztérium, Lengyel Veronika MEH kormányfőtanácsadó.
• Az ITB beszámolója az Internet Galaxis`2000 rendezvényen (2000. Árilis 25)
• NJSZT Kongresszus -“Együtt az információs társadalomban” - Lengyel Veronika előadása a Neumann Konferencián (Eger, 2000. jún 21-23) szöveg és ppt
• Beszélgetés az Információs Társadalomról a Magyar Rádió Kossuth Klub című műsorában (2000.03.29. 21.05) Lantos Gabriella szerkesztővel. Vendégek: Z.Karvalics László (BME-UNESCO Információs Társadalom és Trendkutató Intézet igazgatója), Lengyel Veronika kormányfőtanácsadó (MEH Informatikai Helyettes Államtitkárság), Simó György (Matávnet Origó igazgatója) és Új Péter az Index főszerkesztője.
• Lehetőség vagy kényszerpálya: Az elektronikus kereskedelem hatása a vállalatok jövőbeni esélyeire".
  Konferencia a BKÁE szervezésében (2000. május 30.) Előadás "A tudásalapú társadalom kihívásairól és a felkészülés helyzetéről: A Magy@r Válasz" - Lengyel Veronika MeH kormány-főtanácsadó főosztályvezető-helyettes, az ITB Stratégiai Szakmai Bizottságának vezetője.
• Conference organised by JHLC entitled "Information Society: Accelerating European Integration" was taking place in Warsaw on 11-12 May 2000. Veronika Lengyel's riport about the conference.
• Lengyel Veronika (MEH, kormányfőtanácsadó) és Bedő Erik (Matávcom vezérig.) stúdióbeszélgetése a Magyar Televizió Ablak c. műsorában az e-Europe (e-Magyarország) program 10 pontban foglalt célkitűzéseinek a közigazgatásra és a műszaki infrastuktúrára vonatkozó kérdéseiről (M1, 2000. május 27. 11.00-12.00.)
• Petra Hajdú (Radio BP) had an interview with Veronika Lengyel (Prime Minister's Office) in "The Hungary today" programme (2000. Aug. 24.): Hungary proceeds with the development of the knowledgebased society.
• MÉDIAHAJÓ (2000. szept. 27.)
• The "eEurope 2002" Action Plan and EU Candidate Countries: "eEurope+ 2003" The Hungarian contribution - eHungary - was coordinated and edited by Veronika Lengyel, 2001.
• Egy felhasználás: "Változó világ: a tudás 365 napja (2002, 51. előadás)
• és egy érdekes hivatkozás (2002_Kolozsvár): "Egy szokatlan_előadás" Polgár László előadása a kolozsvári Báthori Líceumban.

Further presentations on ICT topic

• Presetation on Esprit I-Day
• Presentation on Networkshop'98
• About the IST Programme - IST98 Vienna presentation

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