8 Amendments of Petra KAMMEREVERT related to 2009/2225(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the consistent achievements of the i2010 strategy, but calls for more ambitious aims and citizen-orientated priorities under the next strategy, which will offer both economic and also social and cultural opportunities for all EU citizens; therefore requests the Commission to develop a comprehensive definition of the digital agenda and make it subject to further discussion with Parliament and the Council, in order to achieve common understanding among the EU institutions on key objectives and goals;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recognises that Europe’s creative and cultural industries not only play an essential role in encouraging cultural diversity, media pluralism and participatory democracy in Europe, but are also an important engine for sustainable growth in Europe;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the importance of teaching secondary school studentpupils how to use online resources, in particular governmental ones, in order to make them familiar with ICT and to increase their interest in the political, social and cultural environment;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that pluralism, freedom of the press and respect for cultural diversity are core values and end goals of the European Union; thus calls on the Commission to ensure the compliance of all proposed EU policies with these values and goals;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that a European digital agenda needs to promote the production and dissemination of high-quality and culturally diverse content in the EU in order to incentivise all EU citizens to adopt digital technologies such as the internet, and to maximise the cultural and social benefits EU citizens can derive from those technologies;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the fact that the so-called digital dividend is a valuable spectrum source for not only economic but also social and cultural development; urges the Commission to recognise the value of enabling highly popular existing platforms, such as digital terrestrial television, to evolve, as well as facilitating the development of other new technologies;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Asks the Commission to develop, as part of the digital agenda, a modern copyright framework that takes due account of digitisation and convergence of the media and to encourage the development of the internet, which offers many new chances for the circulation of and access to creative content but also poses risks, e.g. in the form of piracy of copyright-protected content;]