It has been an exciting and eventful year, even by the Internet’s own exacting standards. Arab activists inaugurated 2011 by revealing the web’s power to help bring freedom to their countries. All too many governments have responded by pressing for controls to throttle the Internet’s liberating power. Frank La Rue published a manifesto for Internet freedom, the European Parliament and Commission extended him a warm welcome. E.U. officials were intrigued to meet the creators of our Transparency Report that details government requests for content removals and information on users. The European Parliament even hosted part of our “hackathon” in support of Open Data.growth in the E.U.. Instead of destroying jobs, the net is creating millions of them. Crucially, small businesses benefit disproportionately from the web’s power to reach the entire world with a few keyboard strokes. A contest we sponsored even crowned Europe's leading eTowns .Art Project brings online masterpieces from great museums across Europe. Our book project is digitizing and bringing online public domain books from more than a dozen European libraries. At the end of the year, StreetView came to Belgium, allowing anyone in the globe to stroll along the streets hosting European institutions. As the Internet becomes a significant force for policymakers to converse with citizens, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, shown above, appeared live on Euronews and YouTube World View .Posted by Antoine Aubert, Head of Brussels Policy Team
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