PL 3: European Digital Economy and COVID-19 pandemic – current state of affairs, risks, and opportunities
Rapporteur: Natasa Perucica, Geneva Internet Platform
- The main question that we as society need to answer: Is COVID-19 ushering in a fundamental digital paradigm shift?
- To bridge the gap of the digital divide, telcos need to apply a forward looking approach that promotes investment and co-investment in both the short and long term, in addition to building trust and up-skilling on ICT matters in order to facilitate improvements
- There should be no contradiction between data protection and health. Independent oversight and audits should be applied to technologies such as contact tracing to ensure privacy and data protection.
- In the road ahead, we need to think about the type of sustainable society that we want to create and what role digital technology will play in this society.
- Science has a key role to play in the hybrid and flexible future as it allows for an evidence-based approach to the technological industry.
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28th June 2020 at 8:03 pm
The overall objective is the production and fruition of local content – i.e. in the local language and using the local writing system. Universal Acceptance is a tool to get there, but we should not confuse the means with the purpose.
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28th June 2020 at 7:39 pm
Regulatory, funding, and connectivity challenges are often common in CNs around the world. Peer exchange among CNs and identifying best practices is one way to deal with these challenges.
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28th June 2020 at 7:32 pm
We could add something about local services here. CNs not only provide connectivity to internet, but also serve as a local infrastructure on which to deploy local services and generate local content. We could simply add:
Community network provide internet access and local services for and by [..]
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26th June 2020 at 1:00 pm
Well done!
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26th June 2020 at 12:59 pm
+1 Ilias
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26th June 2020 at 12:53 pm
Easy access to and findability of trusted content needs to be ensured.
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26th June 2020 at 12:48 pm
Add at the end: Support for R&D which brings together technology innovation and creativity is key.
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26th June 2020 at 12:45 pm
Sorry, the comment which slipped into para 3 should have been for par 2:
At the end a sentence should be added: The DSA package offers the perfect opportunity.
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26th June 2020 at 12:44 pm
At the end a sentence should be added: The DSA package offers the perfect opportunity.
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26th June 2020 at 12:43 pm
You could add after the last sentence: the DSA package offers the perfect opportunity.
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