12 Amendments of Martina MICHELS related to 2015/2147(INI)
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that extensively ensuring net neutrality is a key part of a socially-just DSM strategy and should therefore not be partially sacrificed for the goal, necessary in the short term, of abolishing roaming fees;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Supports, from a cultural perspective, the Commission’s aim of hastening the roll-out of broadband, particularly in rural areas, and calls for the promotion of public WLAN networks in both large and small municipalities, as this approach provides an indispensable infrastructure for their future operation in the interests of social and cultural integration, modern educational and information processes, and tourism and the regional cultural economy;
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Welcomes the Commission’s approach of prohibiting geo-blocking and restrictions on portability;
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Considers there is a need to stimulate an open debate between businesses, public institutions and consumers with a view to reaching a definitive conclusion on what constitutes ‘unjustified’ geo-blocking;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Welcomes, particularly from a cultural sector perspective, the Commission’s efforts to reject restrictions on cross- border portability of content to which rights have been acquired;
Amendment 175 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Stresses that the living diversity of languages and growing multilingualism form a crucial cultural basis of the European Digital Single Market; takes the view that digitally supporting the diversity of world – and specifically European – languages, increasing their accessibility and promoting and securing the relevant skills will be an essential precondition for enabling a Digital Single Market to develop in a socially sustainable way; considers therefore that, within a DSM strategy, more needs to be done on at least two levels to overcome analogue and digital ‘language blocking’;
Amendment 178 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Proposes, therefore, that research into and development of multilingual translation software combining statistical, learning-based and machine language technologies should be more broadly promoted;
Amendment 179 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Looks to the Commission, in the DSM strategy as elsewhere, to step up its efforts towards a productive interaction with multilingualism, so as to permit speedier implementation of the technological basis for the active protection and productive application of European multilingualism in education, film, cultural heritage, research and public administration, as well as in everyday working and business life;
Amendment 180 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 i (new)
Paragraph 4 i (new)
4i. Welcomes the Commission’s thoughts on constructing new knowledge storage systems for the public sector by means of cloud technologies and text and data mining that are certified and secured under data protection law; takes the view that using such technologies in educational establishments, public libraries and archives calls for special training efforts in the library, archiving and documentation professions, and for corresponding multilingual accessibility for users;
Amendment 181 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 j (new)
Paragraph 4 j (new)
4j. Proposes that efforts to enhance media skills should be permanently complemented by the teaching of wide- ranging internet skills, including knowledge about accessibility, source security and source tagging, data protection, developments in intellectual property rights and rights protection for one’s own content production;
Amendment 182 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 k (new)
Paragraph 4 k (new)
4k. Urges that more efforts be made as part of the DSM strategy to verify the implementation of free and open software in educational establishments and public administration, as the accessibility and visibility of source codes enhances the resource-saving participation of the public authorities in decisions on the use of collaborative innovations; takes the view that more open software may make it possible to certify the digital skills of users, particularly within educational establishments;
Amendment 183 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 l (new)
Paragraph 4 l (new)
4l. Calls for digital forms of collaborative work and communication – using and developing CC licences – to be taught and applied across national and linguistic borders in education and training and in public research establishments, and promoted in public procurement procedures;