Council of Europe: Contact Meeting on New Communication Technologies

IRIS 1995-6:1/1

Ad van Loon

European Audiovisual Observatory

In IRIS 1995-2: 10, we announced that the Council of Europe was assembling a Group of Specialists on the impact of new communications technologies on human rights and democratic values (MM-S-NT). In preparation of the future activities of this Group, the Media Section of the Council of Europe's Directorate of Human Rights organised a contact meeting on new communication technologies. The meeting took place on 22 and 23 May 1995 and was attended by representatives of the industry. Beforehand, the Media Section drafted a document containing guidelines for discussion. The guidelines concern data protection, freedom of expression, access to information channels, the dissemination of information and the functioning of institutions in a democratic society, all in relation to new communication technologies.