Our visby agenda An alternative attempt to create a European IT policy agenda

Post conference update

The Visby conference is over. And it's formal proceedings, "The Visby Declaration" has been posted on the precidency's website. The proceedings contains a lot of the right words, mostly in the correct order. So we're glad to see that the precidency have listened to us and others.

We did attend the conference and met a lot of great people. Our report was mentioned several times, this URL was given to the participants and we even had some mainstream press coverage of this inititative.

Overall we're happy how this turned out, that a few persons with a blog and a text-editor can co-create an agenda which is taken seriously even by Ministers. It is a great first step for opening up these processes and we'd like to, once again, thank all of you who have contributed and supported us.

We will continue pushing this during the rest of the Swedish Precidency and try to forward our perspective to the upcoming Spanish Precidency so that your ideas which we've collected and formulated is brought into the formal Granada Strategy.

But we also recognize that the issues and stakeholders during the spring, will not be the same as we've worked with this fall and that being close to the precidency matters.

Therefore, we call upon citizens in Spain to help us. This is Our Visby Agenda, calling out for the formation of an "Our Granada Strategy".

In the meantime. This is Our Visby Agenda.