Recent Activities   The Mayor of Yantai and invited VIPs at the citizen card launch, in Yantai Yantai Citizen Card launch On 18th June, the Mayor of Yantai, together with high-level government staff and members of the EU-China Information Society project gathered together to celebrate the launch of its citizen card. The card will enable inhabitants of Yantai city to benefit from a range of streamlined and efficient e-Government services, including health, pension and utilities schemes. Re-launch of ISKB database The Information Society Knowledge Base (ISKB) is an integral part of the EU-China Information Society Project, providing an online repository for project documentation, materials and research conducted over the lifetime of the project, with the participation of more than 150 experts in a wide variety of topics related to Information Society, from both the EU and China. Click here to access the database and obtain a username and password. Project Overview The project is now in its 3rd year of operation and has carried out over 170 activities covering regulatory and e-government issues. The main achievements to date include the design of a regulatory framework for enacting essential laws and regulations including a study on the upcoming Chinese telecommunications law focusing on regulatory institutions, market access, universal service and convergence; a study on data regimes for the upcoming law on Personal Data Protection; input to the forthcoming law on Access to Government Information; an initial assessment of Information Security issues including infrastructure security; a series of e-Government  applications systems covering emergency health response systems, systems covering emergency health response systems, G2C and G2B systems, and Smartcards for social security. Upcoming activities include a second phase of research into the telecommunications law focusing on capacity building for future market regulation plus an analysis into user protection, backed up by a new research on multimedia and internet governance; a second round of e-government applications in the 6 demonstration cities including surveys on benchmarking e-government and e-commerce at national level; a new e-Government training programme targeting senior decision-makers at provincial level; research and pilot projects on addressing the Digital Divide; a study on interoperability; ICT for communities and local government; plus a high-level forum on e-commerce with the Advisory Committee for State Informatisation (ACSI). Click on the 6th edition of our newsletter!    Click here to see our new reports!    More publications on the way... Personal Data Protection in Europe and China: What lessons can be learnt?