October 1992 :

USA > Computer Systems Policy Project, part of Bill Clinton's election campaign, developed by Al Gore, who was to become vice-president of the United States.

May 1993 :

FRANCE > Launch of the Telework/Teleservices project by the Ministry of Companies.

July 1993 :

USA > Adoption by the American Congress of the National Information Infrastructure Act.

September 1993:

USA > The Information Infrastructure Task Force is set up.

November 1993:

FRANCE > Thierry Breton report on Telework.

December 1993:

EUROPEAN UNION > European Commission White Paper on "Growth, competitiveness, employment : challenges and paths to enter the 21st century".

22 February 1994 :

FRANCE > Interministerial Committee. The framework of the information society is set. Gerard Thery is asked to submit a report to detail the issues, and propose measures with methods and dates.

24 and 25 June 1994 :

EUROPEAN UNION > The report written by a group of experts lead by the European Commissioner, Martin Bangemann, is presented to the European Council at the Corfu Summit.

July 1994 :

EUROPEAN UNION > The European Commission, in a communiqué, defines an action plan called "Towards the information society in Europe".

September 1994 :

FRANCE > Gerard Thery presents his report to the Prime Minister. Publication of the Thierry Breton report on the information highways market.

27 October 1994 :

FRANCE > First interministerial Committee of the information highways and services. It is the true beginning of the information highways in France

17 November 1994 :

EUROPEAN UNION > The Council of Ministers of the European Union responsible for Telecommunications unanimously adopt the principle of liberalisation in Europe of telecommunications infrastructures starting 1 January 1998.

23 November 1994 :

FRANCE > Start of the call for propositions

7 December 1994 :

FRANCE > Conference on the information higways and services at the CNIT, Paris.

13 December 1994 :

FRANCE > Government communique to Parliament.

19 December 1994 :

FRANCE > Information day on the information higways and services.

23 January 1995 :

FRANCE > Limit date for the tendering of projects in response to the call for proposals.

25 January 1995 :

G7 > G7 on the Information Society

28 February 1995 :

FRANCE > Second interministerial Committee of the information highways and services. First selection of projects in four categories.

March to August 1995 :

FRANCE > Interviews with project directors.

16 October 1995 :

FRANCE > Third interministerial Committee of the information highways and services 170 projects are recognised.

End 1995 :

FRANCE > Second series of recognitions and closure of call procedure.