As part of the "European Forum Alpbach", the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Center for Digital Safety & Security, together with the Gaia-X Hub Austria, is organising a three-day workshop on "Digital Sovereignty" from Friday, 25 August 2023 to Sunday, 27 August 2023. An interdisciplinary working group of top-class experts was invited to analyse today's global data world in an open-ended discourse with regard to self-determination based on European values, while at the same time releasing the best possible innovation potential in the digital space, and to develop recommendations for the future design of the data economy in Europe.
The heterogeneous composition of the workshop with experts and stakeholders from various disciplines such as IT, data science, economics, law and humanities as well as with policy makers from various international organisations such as the OSCE, UNESCO or the think tank GLOBSEC with a strong commitment to a distinctive, ethically based digital society in Europe, should enable an interweaving of perspectives in this three-day discourse with which all aspects of the topic can be illuminated.
Europe's role in the new digital world order
Europe must play a formative role in the global digital world order through strategic planning by policymakers, as well as through legislative and regulatory controls for the expansion of digital sovereignty, while avoiding external influences such as political agitation, disinformation and even manipulation by closed data oligopolies. Especially in the area of technical implementation of modern digital technologies and software platforms, Europe's assumption of a decisive position is an important prerequisite for being able to develop the European data economy in a people-centred and positive way.
"An interdisciplinary discourse is a fundamental prerequisite to ensure a sustainable positive development of the European data-driven society in Europe. I am pleased that we can contribute to the European and Austrian data strategy with this discussion between top-class experts and with the resulting valuable suggestions and recommendations. Only if we focus on the European values of the people, Europe can take a globally leading exemplary position", says Helmut Leopold, Head of the Center for Digital Safety & Security at the AIT and Chair of the Gaia-X Hub Austria.
Further information: https://www.gaia-x.at/efa23/
Pressekontakt:
Michael W. Mürling
Marketing and Communications
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Center for Digital Safety & Security
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Michael H. Hlava
Head of Corporate and Marketing Communications
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
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