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Proposals announced for EU Data Protection reform

Yesterday Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and EU Justice Commissioner announced reforms to the EU’s 1995 data protection rules aimed at strengthening online privacy rights. Coadec’s Sara Kelly has outlined some of the proposed reforms and their affect on businesses in the digital economy for ORGZine — the online magazine which aims to provide readers with news, analysis and features …

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The Digital Copyright Exchange – The Issues

Last night at Tech Hub Coadec co-hosted with Mixcloud the first of a series of meetings to allow startups to directly give their experience of trying to work in the current copyright system, and potential issues of implemented a Digital Copyright Exchange. The purpose of the exchange, which was first proposed in the Hargreaves Review of IP and …

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“Open Source” Curriculum for Computer Science in Schools

Almost every industry, not just the digital economy, is in need of a workforce with talents in computer science and particularly coding. Video games, special effects industries, producers of applications, and many more. Despite this demand the number of students studying computing are falling. They are already natives to the digital work and adept software …

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