fyi- Europe and the Global Information Infrastructure: Holland

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

> To: Multiple recipients of list <nii-teach () wais com>
> 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