2nd meeting of the EUROMED Forum on the Information Society

The 2nd meeting of the EUROMED Forum on the Information Society will be held on 25th October 2007 in Brussels.

The opening session will commence with an intervention from the President of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), who will be representing the Portuguese Presidency of the EU. This will be followed by interventions by the Deputy Director General for the Information Society and Media at the European Commission and by the Director for International Relations from Egypt’s Ministry for Information and Communication Technologies.

The meeting agenda takes in various aspects of cooperation between the EU and non-EU countries around the Mediterranean in Information Society fields, including support projects for the Research and Education network under EUMEDCONNECT, which is connected to the GÉANT2 European network, other e-Infrastructures projects, including GRID Computation as part of the EUMEDGRID project, projects in the scope of the EU’s 7th Framework Research Programme, cooperation in regulating telecommunications and preparing the 2nd EUROMED Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, which will be held in Cairo, Egypt, in 2008.