Authorities: insufficient basis for wireless internet
That state in the budget of the ministry of Economic Affairs. The netherlands has commit an excellent infrastructure for electronic communication, but the benutting of it through citizens, and remains the (semi-)publieke sector behind to respect of other countries.
The authorities want this improve through information to give at municipalities, provinces and house corporations about how broad ties stimulated can become.
Further will the authorities there in 2007 everything at put on to guarantee the safety and reliability of electronic networks. This lifted among many through the project National Infrastructure Fight Cybercrime. With this want to improve the authorities together with the business world the fight of internet criminality.
Via campaigns as Digibewust, Surf on Safe, the program Kwint and the warnings service will the authorities try round citizens and commit more conscious to make of safe use of internet.
During the coming year, the cabinet want to prohibit also the sending of spam to businesses. The sending of spam to individuals is though since 2004 bans.
Subsidy
Although ict falls for a large part within the administration of Economic Affairs, become in the budget of the ministry of Justice also subsidy amount named for various internetgerelateerde organizations. As becomes there 84,000 Euros reserved for the Meldpunt childerporn on internet. The Meldpunt Discrimination Internet may divide together with foundation Magenta 70,000 Euros.
What fight of criminality and terrorism concerned, plead will of the Netherlands on European level in favor of harmonisering of the cybercrime-legislation. for legislation reaches not further often then the country border.
Criticism
Of various sides, there is already criticism on the plans of the authorities. As finds EPN (platform for the information society) that there insufficient attention is for the electronic window of municipalities. Also ict can become better set-in against the job market problem, according to EPN. This problem arises through a growing economy and increasing graying.
ICT-pantry is also not enthousiastically about the realm budget. The branch association for among many internet business finds that it by the authorities shorten at act power. too vague beaches good intentions in the execution. The extra million that the past years have not been spent at innovation and ict, are on the right place correct come, writes ICT-Pantry. The organization pleads in favor of more cooperation and clearer appointments.