BARCELONA DECLARATION HEADLINES

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“Final draft of the Information Society Forum Group under the chairmanship of Mr.  Majo”

1.The relationships between technology, productivity, growth and employment are complex.  Any simplistic approach to the problem is dangerous.

2.The promotion of the Information Society could be and has to be a key pillar of  European employment policy.

3.The challenge is to develop the necessary conditions to fully exploit the job potentialities of Information Society.

4.The modalities of growth in coming years should be different as different economic conditions are present.

5.Growth alone will not solve Europe’s unemployment problems.

6.Information Society is at the root of sustainable growth.

7.Market forces alone will not solve Europe’s delay in entering the Information Society nor eliminate unemployment.

8.Public authorities have a key role to play in this domain.

9.Budgetary resources exist at all levels for new active employment measures related to preparing people and organisations for the Information Society.

10.The Luxembourg Summit should establish lines of action for European as well as national policies in this domain.

11. The Information Society Forum is ready, at the request of the Luxembourg Summit, to provide further insight.

Barcelona November 3, 1997