Felipe VI has offered a gala dinner on the occasion of the OECD ministerial conference on the digital economy to be held in Gran Canaria this week
The King has made an appeal, to which the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are willing to cooperate, to build a “reliable, sustainable and inclusive” digital future in a world in which “digitalization is increasingly the standard”. global economy, it penetrates all sectors and affects all aspects of life”, with its advantages and disadvantages.
This is stated in the speech at the gala dinner he gave on Tuesday on the occasion of the OECD ministerial conference on the digital economy that will be held in Gran Canaria this week, to which he has drawn urgent attention to OECD member states. leadership and action” in the face of the challenges of the digital economy. It is the first time that a summit of these characteristics has been organized in Europe, for which the King, in a meeting accompanied by the First Vice President, Nadia Calviño, thanked Spain for choosing him to organize it.
During his speech, the king warned that while digital transformation “brings great potential for innovation, well-being and prosperity, and in particular accessibility and open data as a means to empower people and businesses, there are also risks of misuse and harm with bring along.”
For the king, the search for better societies is “inevitable and closely linked” to the success of the digital transformation and therefore also a new political challenge for governments. For this reason, he has ensured that “this context urgently requires attention, leadership and action from political leaders around the world.”
Source: La Verdad
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