With the Digital Compass targets, the EU sets a clear course towards achieving its digital sovereignty ambition by 2030. Concrete targets on connectivity, digital skills, public services and transformation of businesses aim to enable Europe to play a leadership role in driving green & digital transition and economic recovery after the pandemic.
By setting values and rules around the deployment of data-driven emerging digital technologies such as AI and IoT, Europe aspires to create trust in digitisation. It will stimulate enterprises, public administrations and end-users to embrace innovative digital applications and boost Europe’s digital economy and society.
But connectivity will be the cornerstone to delivering a successful EU Digital Decade, building on the current momentum for connectivity in keeping societies and businesses running during the pandemic. By 2030, every European should have access to gigabit speed and 5G needs to be rolled out across the Union. This is no sm
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Tuesday 2 February, 2021
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The GSMA, on behalf of its European members, presents the mobile industry’s vision for 2021 and beyond in its latest report. Top priorities include delivering on the European Commission’s 5G Action Plan, building a distributed cloud and edge infrastructure and shrinking the digital divide.Download Now
Introduction
“Business as usual is no more… we will need to build a resilient, green and digital Europe.” So said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on 20 April 2020, when the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic were becoming clear.
Even then, the crisis was showing the world that digital infrastructure is essential for social welfare and the continued functioning of the economy. Citizens were embracing new ways of engaging and interacting, businesses were pivoting to more virtual modes of operation, and sectors including healthcare, education and retail were looking to digital
Since the pandemic started last year, European citizens have had to radically realign their lives to the new reality. For the most part, this has meant rapidly migrating our personal and professional lives online. With this comes a broad range of policy measures aimed at reinforcing Europe’s connectivity and heightening cybersecurity standards across 2021.
The pandemic also resulted in vastly accelerated profits for many of the tech giants, highlighting their dominance across online markets and provoking concern among competition regulators in Brussels.
This, alongside a renewed commitment to further harmonizing rules for online services, contributed to the conception and presentation of the EU’s landmark Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act ahead of the Christmas break.