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EU Digital Day: Take-aways
On 19 March, the EU held its Digital Day, an event gathering national leaders, EU officials and other high-level stakeholders.
In the course of this event, Member States signed three declarations:
-Declaration on A Green and Digital Transformation of the EU: Member States commit to accelerating the development and deployment of digital technologies, such as Very High-Capacity Networks (5G, 6G), fibre optics, High performance computing, Quantum computing, IoT, Blockchain, cloud, AI and big data, “as key solutions to ensure the impact of climate adaptation and mitigation policies”. It also addresses the issue of energy efficiency. In short, the purpose is to use “green digital solutions” to reach climate neutrality.
-Data Gateways Declaration: Member States commit to making of the EU a world-class data hub. For this purpose, they will develop terrestrial and submarine cables, satellites, Internet Exchange points, data centres and other technologies. Besides this, the EU will set up a European Alliance on Industrial Data and Cloud.
-Declaration on EU Startup Nations Standard: Member States commit to ensuring that all European start-ups and scale-ups benefit from the best practices adopted by successful startup ecosystems.
In addition, 26 CEOs of companies signed a declaration to support the green and digital transformation of the EU. The list includes Atos’ CEO, Orange’s CEO, Dassault Systèmes’ CEO, Deutsche Telekom’s CEO, Ericcson’s CEO, Microsoft’s CEO, IBM’s CEO, OVHCloud’s CEO etc. More information and the full list of signatories below.
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