4 Amendments of Maria BADIA i CUTCHET related to 2008/2204(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. Acknowledges that the Internet couldan become a tool for promoting cultures and languages by developing cultural and creative industries, especially in developing countries; insists, however, on the importance of promoting equal access to ICTs to make an inclusive information society possible, and removing barriers of any kind,the various existing barriers - infrastructure or training deficit, among others - to allow potential trading and to guarantee the full rights of citizenship;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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2. UnderlinesPoints out that the Internet has brought a new approach to the production, consumption and dissemination of cultural goods and services, which could improvean contribute to cross-cultural understanding on the basis of free and fair access to new ICTs and respect for cultural and linguistic diversity;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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4. Acknowledges the importance of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression as an essential instrument to guarantee that the cultural exemption in international trade transactions in goods and services of a cultural and creative nature is maintained within the international framework of the WTO;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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6. Considers that the Internet and new ICTs have a key role in the European e-learning strategyonline and internet-based education strategy (e- learning), in the framework of the European lifelong learning policy, which is particularly important in widening access to education in general, so as to achieve the Lisbon goals;