2月26日在布鲁塞尔落下帷幕的西方七个工业发达国家(美、日、法、德、英、意)“信息社会部长级会议”将开始实行目的在于鼓励和促进在许多领域应用信息技术的11个计划项目。 这些项目的目标及负责协调它们的国家是: 1、全球信息库:建立一个可通过电子手段存取的多媒体信息库,储存有关促进和发展全球信息社会的信息,其中 Seven Western industrialized countries (U.S., Japan, France, Germany, Britain and Italy) that came to an end in Brussels on February 26 “The Ministerial Conference on Information Society” will begin its operation to encourage and promote the application of information technology in many fields 11 planned projects. The goals of these projects and the countries responsible for coordinating them are: 1. Global Repository: The establishment of a multimedia repository accessible electronically for the storage of information on the promotion and development of a global information society, of which