28/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - UfM/GÉANT to develop digital economy. On Monday 25 January, GÉANT, a European research and education service network (R&E), announced that it would be working with the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) to develop the digital economy in southern Mediterranean countries. The first meeting of a new digital economy workgroup (DEWoG), already took place in December, in Barcelona. This will be in charge of implementing the 2014 recommendations of the ministers responsible for the digital economy, explained a press release. The GÉANT's website explains that the organisation has been operational since 2004 in the field of R&E network development in the southern Mediterranean by way of a EUMEDCONNECT project. (FB)