Tag Archive for 'network neutrality'

Telecoms Package: Contact EU Reps now!

It is time to act again to protect Net Neutrality in Europe, as reported by the open letter signed by 26 European internet civil society organizations.

Next Monday the conciliation committee will held its first meeting, the Quadrature du Net’s guide (code name: Operation Revelation) will give you some tools to make the Telecoms Package a public issue. Stay tuned to this page, since it will be updated with the latest developments.

Network Neutrality Italian Conference: Rome, 14th of May 2009

Kenneth R. Carter will give a speech at the Ugo Bordoni Foundation during the “socio-economical aspects of network neutrality” seminar, that will be held in Rome on the 14th of May 2009.

Registrations are open.

European Network Neutrality: Time to Act!

Malcolm Harbour (IMCO report) and Catherine Trautmann (ITRE report) , rapporteurs of the main directives of the   Telecoms Package formerly rejected thanks to Trautmann, stopped to enforce net citizens fundamental rights.

It is time to call your Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to ask them to vote again for the “CITIZEN RIGHTS AMENDMENTS”, in the second reading of the Telecoms Package.

Learn more at the Quadrature du Net website. Act Now.

Participatory Legislation: the Italian Democratic Party Launches a Wiki

New Zelanders have been given the chance to write their own laws in 2007, now it is Italian time: the Italian Democratic Party just launched a wiki to publicly discuss the bill ‘Network neutrality, free software and society‘.

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