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Deutsch: (D') Evolution Summit 2010 und die Granada Deklaration
On 31 March 2010, on the eve of the Easter break, the summit of the Ministers of Culture from the 27 European Union countries, and their meeting with the Forum of Cultural Industries, came to an end in Barcelona. The parallel citizen summit, the (D') Evolution Summit - which was organized in order to put forward specific proposals and urgent demands on fundamental rights on the Internet, and to give a real-time account of what was being said inside the official congress - allowed civil society to keep an eye on what was being said about its future.
Here are some details which, as we will see below, are "representative":
More than 5000 people were able to connect to the live internet broadcast, and 700 social networks worked spontaneously to ensure that the information circulated immediately. Tens of thousands of blogs helped to spread (D') Evolution.
The fictional character the Tracks Collector, an artist who tries to collect his legitimate royalties generated by works licensed under Creative Commons, which the cultural industries do not want to pay him, attracted more than 1000 fans in a single day.
The (D') Evolution action with Leo Bassi entiteled "No pagaremos el pato/We will not carry the can" for a cultural industry that does not want to reinvent itself was the lead image in all the papers.
Every day, half an hour after the end of each session at the Forum on Cultural Industries, we broadcast the edited highlights with live commentary. The edit showing Eduard Punset directly addressing the Spanish Minister Ángeles González Sinde, which was posted online with the title La Lección de Punset/Punset's Lesson had 90 000 visits in the first two days, making it one of the 5 most-watched videos on the net. It has now exceeded 150 000 visits.
A second meeting of the civil society was related to the Granada meeting between 18 and 20 April of the Ministers of Telecommunications and Information Society of the European Union. Even though the most part of the Ministers could not arrive due to the airlines problems in Europe and participated via videoconference, the Granada Ministerial Declaration on the European Digital Agenda was agreed on 19 April 2010.
The declaration expressed support to "safeguard the openness of the internet" and as regards IPRs wants to "actively promote the development of European digital content markets through practical solutions to promote new business models and concrete measures to reduce market fragmentation for the reuse and access to digital content, while protecting and assuring the fair remuneration of rights holders. "
The Granada declaration also includes the headline "Digital User Rights" which are related to the promotion of "awareness of current EU rules protecting users of electronic communications and online services" and to the reinforcement of "data protection and privacy for users of social networking services and in key fields such as online health and e-government services."
Granada Ministerial Declaration on the European Digital Agenda: Agreed on 19
April 2010
http://ue2010.net/export/sites/presidencia/comun/descargas/Ministerios...
Europa aprueba la Declaración de Granada para la nueva Agenda Digital (only
in Spanish, 19.04.2010)
http://www.mityc.es/es-ES/GabinetePrensa/NotasPrensa/2010/Paginas/npre...
Full report from the (D') Evolution Summit - THE END OF IMPUNITY,
Ministerial Summits are not what they used to be -Videos, images, events and
press clippings
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/
Internet will not be another TV
http://internetnoseraotratv.net/en
(Thanks to organizers of (D') Evolution Summit)