Free Information Infrastructure

A mainly European term mirroring the official US term National Information Infrastructure, introduced in early nineties by a US Patent Office paper http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/.

Related Topics:
European - National Information Infrastructure - US

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The terms global information infrastructure and information highway were also used as a governmental term for the Net.

Related Topics:
Global information infrastructure - Information highway

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Free Information Infrastructure rather focuses on freedom and is widely used by open standards lobby groups in Europe.

Related Topics:
Freedom - Europe

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Free Information Infrastructure focuses on the Internet. The Internet and the media that is used to access the net shall be free.

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A Free Information Infrastructure comprises

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• No software patents, no patents for eCommerce and data processing.
• Free access
• open standards
• little control by state
• Free Speech
• strong competition law
• sometimes: Free/Libre (Open Source) Software

Some groups such as Eurolinux and FFII refer to it.

Related Topics:
Eurolinux - FFII

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