ICT policy, research, and innovation : perspectives and prospects for EU-US collaboration

"Information and communication technologies (ICT) play crucial roles in responding to global challenges and helping us to develop a shared vision of the type of society in which we wish to live. Sustainable solutions to problems such as energy supply, logistics, health care, security, water and food supply and climate change require multinational cross-functional initiatives in technology, policy, collaboration and innovation. Some nations are already more advanced in devising national solutions, although they are not always those where the adverse impacts of these problems are currently most acute, and many challenges are strongly related to developments across national boundaries."