The second European News Media Forum (ENMF) focused on the challenges and innovations of European news media organisations, looking into key topics for the industry: revenue streams, business models, community engagement, diversity, media convergence, new formats and partnerships.

This paper presents the conclusions of the eGovernment Action Plan Steering Board on a New Digital Government Policy in light of the Digital Decade principles and targets.

The European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud has kicked-off its work in December 2021. Via a Call for proposals funded under the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL), the European Commission is looking for an organisation or consortium that will serve as external secretariat of the Alliance and support its operational activities

On 11 November 2021, the European Commission organised a workshop on “Digital Autonomy in the Computing Continuum: From Cloud to Edge to IoT for European Data”, bringing together experts from industry and academia as well as those seeking to learn about existing work and future funding opportunities in the area of Cloud-Edge-IoT.

The period to request business meetings (B2B) as part of the EU-Mexico Digital Economy Forum has started. The B2B meetings will take place from January 31 to February 10, 2022. Due to the time difference between Mexico and the European Union, the time allowed to schedule meetings will be from 16:00 to 20:00 CET.

All projects delivering broadband internet to citizens that are advanced in implementation, targeting rural or urban areas, supported by private or public investors, local, regional, national or cross-border are welcome to apply for the European Broadband Awards by 31 January 2022. The winners will receive an EU Broadband Award and will be showcased by the European Commission as good examples in social media and websites.

Due to the ongoing open call for proposals for European Digital Innovation Hubs, a meeting was held between DG CNECT A4 and Member State Representatives to discuss Co-Funding and national strategy issues.

EVP Vestager and Commissioner Breton discuss semiconductor policies with leading companies and research organisations.

CEF Digital aims to stimulate the commercial offering of cloud services throughout the EU. The cloud capacity will be strengthened and users will have access to multiple computing resources as a result of the projects supported by CEF.