DG CONNECT's Stakeholder Survey: "Help us do better"

DG CONNECT's Stakeholder Survey has been launched and remains open until 2 December. The aim of this survey is to learn more about individuals, groups, organisations and entities who are involved in, or have views on, shaping Digital Agenda for Europe. It seeks more information on the areas stakeholders are interested in as well as rating the importance and level of satisfaction of certain aspects of interaction, for example easy access to information and the importance of timely and accurate feedback.

Therefore, DG CONNECT invites you to take part in this Survey to help us do our work and serve you better. The objectives are to:

- get a better understanding of who DG CONNECT's stakeholders are

- get an overview of how DG CONNECT is perceived

- identify areas of improvement

- establish a baseline scenario to measure progress

- Your answers will feed into a strategy, which aims at further developing DG CONNECT's relations with different types of stakeholders.

The survey will take from 5 to 10 minutes to complete and answers will remain anonymous.

In January 2013 the main findings of the survey will be published on the Digital Agenda for Europe website.

Click here to fill in this survey.

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Influence the support given to innovative SMEs from the ICT sector in Horizon 2020

"If you are based in the EU or in an associated country, and are an innovative ICT company or an ICT association (network, alliance or platform), we want to hear your opinion!"

The European Commission is currently conducting a survey to know what drives innovative SMEs to participate - or not - the R&D projects funded under FP7-ICT. The results will provide recommendations for future program 2020. Answer the survey should take no longer than 15 minutes. The questionnaire is available in English, German and French.

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New survey on data protection and electronic identity

The main conclusions of a new Eurobarometer survey on attitudes towards data protection and electronic identity show that three out of four Europeans accept that revealing personal data is part of everyday life, but they are also worried about how companies – including search engines and social networks – use their information.

The report reveals that 62% of people in the European Union give the minimum required information so as to protect their identity, while 75% want to be able to delete personal information online whenever they want to – the so-called right to be forgotten.However people disclose personal data, including biographical information (almost 90%), social information (almost 50%) and sensitive information (almost 10%) on the sites.

The survey results come as the Commission prepares to reform EU data protection rules (see IP/10/1462) and SPEECH/11/183).

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