Happy Chinese New Year!

Met dank overgenomen van N. (Neelie) Kroes i, gepubliceerd op maandag 23 januari 2012.

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To all those celebrating Chinese New Year, wherever you are in the world, a very happy Year of the Dragon to you!

A bit of research on the Internet (where else?) reveals that the Dragon is the innovative entrepreneur, intensely powerful yet flexible, and the bringer of great fortune (remind you of anything…?). All of which suggests to me that 2012 should also be the year of ICT!

(See here for a more serious take on our ICT cooperation with a country that has come on a good deal in ICT uptake - now having over half a billion Internet users - but where there is still a troubling lack of progress in securing online freedoms).