Bitcoin, Ethereum, DLT – in the past few years, the number of newly-minted terms and acronyms surrounding crypto assets has fuelled curiosity about the po
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Artificial intelligence and other forms of innovative technology
will continue to shape our ways of life and all sectors of society.
Be it health, education, finance, entertainment, or other economic
sectors, there is no escaping the disruptive effects of technology.
This said, technology is a remarkable enabler which, if implemented
appropriately, will reward the efforts made in meeting the various
challenges that it poses.
Conscious of the global shift towards a digital economy, Malta
has, over the past years, embarked on a number of policies and
strategies aimed at placing innovation and emerging technology at
the centre of its developmental strategy.
The ‘IT Professionalism Conference 2021’ was held during three half-day online sessions from April 20 to 22 by the eSkills Malta Foundation, in collaboration and partnership with the Irish Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition and IT Professionalism Europe, which work closely with key public actors from the European Commission and the European Parliament.
To address current and new challenges, one of the EU targets is to have 20 million IT professionals working by 2030 by revitalising current initiatives for professionalising the European IT workforce and calling on all stakeholders to increase their efforts and cooperation.
During the conference, participants gathered perspectives from Europe and other continents to identify the steps necessary to help meet the new EU target goals, including political initiatives, developing technologies and the outlook for young IT professionals.
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After much anticipation, on Wednesday the European Commission published its proposal for a regulation aimed at harmonising the regulation of Artificial Intelligence throughout the European Union. The anticipation was heightened after some form of draft of the proposal was leaked a few days earlier.
The proposed regulation has drawn mixed reactions from across the globe since the jurisdictional scope will affect companies producing or using AI systems even outside of the EU if such systems, or their outputs, are to be used in the EU. This is not an unknown way of the EU’s working, since it adopted a similar extra-EU reach with respect to data protection through the GDPR.