ICT : MEMBER STATES GIVE CONDITIONAL NOD TO AAL PROGRAMME. From: Tech Europe | Date: October 3, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Europolitics. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

All in all, the EU's 27 member states support the draft decision concerning the Community's involvement in an R&D programme aimed at improving the quality of life of the elderly through recourse to new information and communication technologies ( Ambient Assisted Living' or AAL). They must now tackle the technical issues', in particular that of the mechanism of national financing. "We are in the process of breaking new ground," underlined Mariano Gago, the Portuguese minister of s...