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Digital transformation: What is your vision for the digital age?

Digital transformation

Digitalisation impacts our lives in almost every area, changing the way we work, connect with each other, get informed, and spend our time. Whilst offering solutions to improve our lives in many ways, technology also gives rise to unprecedented challenges ranging from data protection issues and cyber security threats to the spread of disinformation and digital addiction. Rules and regulation have to keep up with the rapid changes and societies need to define how they want to shape the digital age.

The EU’s digital strategy aims to ensure that digital transformations work for the people, businesses and the planet at the same time whilst being in line with EU values. That entails investing in digital competences for all Europeans, improving accessibility by providing fast internet connections and protecting people from cyber threats. It further addresses the reduction of carbon emissions stemming from the digital sector and developing artificial intelligence in ways that respect people’s rights.

Facing this megatrend that rapidly changes our lives, how do you want to see the digital age unfold? How can we fight fake news and hate speech online? Which rules or regulations should be in place for social media? What is your take on e-democracy? What are your wishes for technological innovations such as artificial intelligence? Have your say on the transformations that shape your life in the digital age!

What people think

110 comments on Digital transformation: What is your vision for the digital age?
Kacper Czaplicki  • 07 May 2021

I hope it wont happen but it there would be a lockdown, there could be vr headsets for students that need practical experience, but they cant do this on pc or laptop, vr technology could help them a lot.

Julia Fernández Arribas  • 09 May 2021
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“Artificial Intelligence for Genuine Information”

We propose:

1. The creation of an AI unit under the joint command of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and the Hybrid Fusion Cell of the European External Action Service (EEAS). That unit should carry out a risk assessment and develop a toolbox leading to the detection and effective response to false information. Funding can come from the new Digital Europe programme or Horizon Europe.

2. Launch a pilot project to facilitate cooperation between the unit and the media, as main fact-checking officers. Such a project may include the exchange of good practices, the financing of AI applications, and the development of critical thinking skills, among others. Only in this way is it possible to address the priorities A Europe fit for the digital age and a new impetus for European democracy and to achieve the 2030 Digital Compass objectives.

Proposal prepared by Álvaro Asensio, Andrés Patricio Centeno and Ina Plamenova in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the European Union, organised by Team Europe.

You can read the full proposal here: Https://equipoeuropa.org/inteligencia-artificial-para-una-informacion-autentica/

Milton  • 14 May 2021

Deutsche Bank’s research really says it all, the EU is not investing enough into its AI competitiveness in comparison with other large economies like the U.S. and China, and even smaller economies like South Korea and Japan. €1 billion a year isn’t even close to enough.

Elena Stefa  • 12 June 2021

We can create Technologie Spots in which could have new technologies in order young people have the opportunity to use them and develope their ideas. Those Technologie spots could communicate with each other so young people around the world could develop ideas together as a team. Through AI and VR technologies young people could develop brilliant ideas with Europe's help and resources.

Gaëlle Devillaire  • 22 June 2021

It would be relevant to launch awareness campaigns in schools and universities on disinformation and on the strategies used by the actors to influence views and change mindsets on critical issues, especially towards the youth. They must be aware of which websites are dangerous.

Reza  • 25 June 2021

We all know diversity would have a positive impact of productivities. Certain countries like Netherlands has an option like Startup Visa where foreigners with an innovative idea would be able to relocate to the Netherlands and start their startup. However, this would required funding. My idea is to improve the platform across the EU where member of a country (EU or non-EU) would be able to share idea and find an EU co-founder for startup and in this case, they submit an idea and then the EU country will review and secure them with the funding and grant the startup visa as needed and this way a citizen and even non-EU person could work together to setup a business and this would lead to reduce employment, increase innovation and technology growth, improve productivity for startup. Currently Visa and Funding are two main challenge for non-EU persons who wanted to establish an startup in the EU.

Nectarios  • 26 June 2021

My idea is that we want to control digitalization. We want to be human and not "transform"

Jan  • 28 June 2021

Making calling an texting numbers in other EU countries the same price as calling and texting within the one country.

Petr Tomčiak  • 29 June 2021

I would like to present an idea to use blockchain technology and related crypto assets in the EU. Altought the distributed ledger technoly has great potential in many fields, I am calling for creating central bank digital currency and establishing rules for the use of distributed ledger technology towards tokenised economy, as part of digitalised economy.

Johanna Jaegermann  • 12 July 2021

On the question “should elections be completely digital” for EPE: my answer is no. There should be an option to safely vote online or by post, however, for a part of our society this is too fast paced and I am not just talking about the older generation. There will always remain people for whom this would be a reason not to vote. Either because it’s too difficult for them to comprehend, they think it will be too difficult to comprehend so don’t even try or something I missed in this argument. Thus in my opinion, there should be an option to do so, but there should remain the possibility to vote on location as well. Idk how this is done outside of the Netherlands but in my country, most locations include volunteers who help on voting days, and this amount increased enormously because of COVID-19, so I am not worried it can continue either.

João Roque  • 12 July 2021

I think the elderly would be completely put aside by society or just be manipulated and forced to vote for someone. All this because they don't know how to work with such technology.

Hanna  • 15 July 2021

Stop hate speech on social media. The social media networks must delete and sentence those people who take part in racial abuse online.

Victor F  • 15 July 2021
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Hate, fake news and manipulating words spread on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Fake news circulates up to 6 times faster than a real one on Twitter. The consequences for the unity of our society and the health of our democracy are dramatic. It is therefore necessary to give hosts the same responsibility for their content as traditional media such as newspapers and television. This would force social networks to put in place permanent monitoring of the published content and prevent the uncontrolled spread of misleading and hate content. In the event of non-compliance with this responsibility, the EU could sue social networks. Other possible measures are as follows: End of online anonymity, anti-trust laws, etc. Let’s stop technology drifts initially designed for the common good!

Marcel
 • 15 July 2021
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A common European cyber defence is necessary to counter attacks on sensitive infrastrucket.

Shengyue Wang  • 09 August 2021

The citizens should also be duly informed and encouraged to partake, and the academia should be well consulted and supported. Support research, encourage discussion, and mainstream best practices in the digital domains by also prioritizing related topics on the agenda. Continue to closely monitor the regional and global trends and lead in the standardization and legislation on AI, e-governance, and cyberspace. Mandate specialized agency tasked with policy-making, the study on these related issues and monitor global dynamics.

Melita Monemvasioti  • 10 August 2021

As digitalisation increasingly becomes part of various aspects of our everyday lives, the position of those to whom technology (computers, smartphones, internet connection, internet literacy etc.) is inaccessible economically, worsens. Economically compromised individuals already face difficulties with accessing content and information that can help them improve their life situation, and a digitalised world that pays no mind to those who can’t access it further pushes them out of participation in society.
Considering the move of things like school education or jobs to the digital sphere due to the pandemic, nations and international organisations should attempt to secure that everyone, no matter their economic condition, has access to technology and the internet, in order to avoid widening the class rift that is caused by economic inequality.

Georgia Mavria
 • 11 August 2021
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More privacy of data, permanently erased without saving.We do not refer to the existence of data centers (Google, Facebook).

José Juan Núñez Timermans  • 20 August 2021

Each city and each country has its own public transport card.
Normally you must get a different one in each place. We propose the
creation of a European app that allows, thanks to QR codes and the
NFC, the purchase of these tickets directly from the app, saving
paper and plastic in the process and increasing the comfort of users.
In short, to create a European public transport app | #StandForSomething

José Juan Núñez Timermans  • 20 August 2021

Young people want to contribute to society, but sometimes they do
not find the way. There should be a website on which all non-governmental organizations, and governmental organizations are
present on a kind of map. Those citizens who would like to
collaborate could easily contact them, being this a fairly direct way
to get hooked on the various European programs. | #StandForSomething

José Juan Núñez Timermans  • 20 August 2021

The right to be forgotten on the Internet should be somewhat easier
and more accessible, without having to go to court. It should simply
be enough to fill in a form or send an email. | #StandForSomething

José Juan Núñez Timermans  • 20 August 2021

The protection and encryption of our data should be guaranteed.
The EU should have at its disposal a specialized team that would
tackle cyber threats, which will increase in the future with the
advent of supercomputers. | #StandForSomething

José Manuel  • 23 August 2021
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My idea is directed towards EU countries. As
the most important Union of nations in the world, we must know that it is vital for our development and for our citizens. This is why we need to promote industry on our territory, in order to foster jobs and economic growth. I think this is vital in the aftermath of the major crisis in 2008 which severely affected nations in southern Europe, such as my own. We also now add the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and may be better able to withstand this situation in more economically developed nations, but in my nation a large part of the economy depends on tourism and car manufacturing and these sectors have been severely hit after Covid-19.
We
therefore need to promote industry within Europe, so as not to rely on exports from other nations such as the People’s Republic of China. It is vital that Europe brings back its businesses in order to achieve a future in which the whole Union is present. We must also encourage this industry at the same time as renewable energies to try to be the least polluting with the environment.
With
regard to energy, we must reduce the purchase of energy abroad and start using what we produce themselves, since materials such as gas or oil are non-renewable and the only thing that the EU will achieve by continuing to buy materials from other nations such as Algeria or Saudi Arabia is to increase the price of energy in a timely manner, as the less remains, the more it will cost Europeans to pay for it. To this end, we need to increase renewable electricity production in the EU and create legislation that does not allow electricity prices to rise dramatically due to lack of competitiveness.

Thank you very much and good afternoons.

Maciej  • 29 August 2021
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Funding European actors to create strong European social networking companies with strong software that we can use on smartphones and computers. Europe is dependent on US and Chinese solutions in every field, and COVID has highlighted this dependence much more, problems with the supply of different raw materials and products.

Europe wants to cut co2 emissions and instead of producing phones in Europe (Finland, Hungary) we buy them from China.

Ana P.D.  • 30 August 2021
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The social media that were originally created for communication have become a showcase for the world. They show idle lives many times and, on the other hand, people who attack others, generate hatred and spread fake news are hidden behind them. I think it is necessary to reeducate, learn that it is not necessary to share everything and that not everything that counts is real. It is not possible to go back to a time when social media do not exist, because internet users are increasingly young, but they can be taught to use them with respect, freedom of expression without wasting others to prevent such violent behaviour.
In addition, it is necessary to be more careful with such content promoted by ‘influencers’, because they are ultimately a famous or more famous and have a faithful audience that follows them and, as their name indicates, they are influenced by them.

Alexandre mangot  • 09 September 2021
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preventing findings and the EU from consulting on the Internet to ensure that PMUs are realistically represented is one of them, in fact, those who use the IT equipment can give their opinions. (technical expert and IT adviser for 10 years).

Roman
 • 11 September 2021
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Every year, people and businesses from Europe spend billions of euros to secure computers, phones, etc.
The Union should set up and finance the development and maintenance of anti-virus software and make it available free of charge to all those living and operating in the Union.

Nicolas Vande Kerckhove
 • 11 September 2021
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Digital transformation has accelerated following the onset of the health crisis. Many people who have never used new technologies – such as the generation of our grandparents or even our parents – have faced a great challenge: learn how to use digital platforms. It is not uncommon as a student to see that our older teachers sometimes have difficulties using Zoom, managing audio settings, or using Microsoft Office software. My idea is to set up a European platform with very simple explanatory videos subtitled in several official EU languages, in order to reduce the digital gap between generations. Every citizen needs to be housed in the same way in order to achieve a just digital transformation. Indeed, nobody should remain on the table of having to depend on someone in order to be able to access the digital tools that are now part of the daily lives of many Europeans and other citizens in the world.

Response to Nicolas Vande Kerckhove by Nuray  • 01 October 2021

Nowadays digital sphere developes gradually. Accordingly the material and content that is loaded to the flexible internet source is more widespreaded. The safety measures are not enough to prevent the unproper online content that is loaded to the easy reachable websites daily. My idea is that to build-up a safeguard based on AI that could easily define and eliminate the harmful content, besides the safeguard will be able to share the extra bag information or issue in interactive way, explaining the proccess of elimination and a washback that might affected the user. Also it will be a potential public awareness to make people become more careful while using the digital sphere.

Mikołaj  • 14 September 2021
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Proposes that the EU and, in fact, IT engineers should design a new type of network access, be called the EU New Generation or Internet-EU-2 Internet, be fast, scattered, simpler in configuration than today’s cyber-attacks, tampering and tapping, etc. It works well, but it could be even better and more modern and less complex than the current one.

Alexandru
 • 15 September 2021
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Educating the population about the emissions generated by digital activity, in particular in terms of activities on social networks, as well as limiting, by means of severe taxation, unnecessary use of virtual space, such as gaining videos, pictures, etc., as well as keeping written content. The servers storing this type of material generate mass pollution in return for no use for the population, benefiting only economic operators, such platforms being strictly ganted-for the promotion/sale of products and services, or other interests beyond the control of the authorities.

The coercive control and limitation of the activities of economic operators carrying out activities in the field of cryptocurrencies, which are generated at any level. It is necessary to identify them and to impose severe coercive actions to limit the impact of these activities on the environment. The very aggressive strategies of these agents also bring about another type of prejudice that is difficult to identify and remedy, given that there is no interest on the part of the institutions to limit these harmful actions in all respects.

Adrian Victor Lupu  • 15 September 2021

The EU should create it's own Identity Server.

Having a "login with EU" for citizens and adopting it in public institutions would simplify much of the currently fragmented implementations, where each institution has it's own custom registration/login process.

It would provide a single source of truth regarding EU citizens data and allow for better communication between cross-border digital systems.

The EU would take control of what data is shared with 3'rd party services and where that data is stored.

Adrian Victor Lupu  • 15 September 2021

Make the cookie consent popup the responsibility of the browser.

Instead of having each site implement it's own way of informing users, browsers should have an icon, similar to the https lock, where it shows the cookies used.

It is Rares’ Rares
 • 15 September 2021
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Digitalise the health system. The profile of each patient is present in a cloud system in such a way that his doctor aiba acess instant to all elements of the patient’s state of health/conditions to have a clear image from which he or she porneas.

Mihai  • 16 September 2021
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“Develop and implement a digital voting system and effort use in all European countries on next elections”.

Angelin Sirbu
 • 16 September 2021
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A platform to which all business is connected and where all transactions are automatically centralised. This platform would thus eliminate tax evasion, the need for on-balance-sheet deposits and a large proportion of accounting.

EU as a business can see in real time:
— all my transactions
— amounts distributed to salaratilor
— profit, tax, due date of payments

This platform would completely eliminate the need for accounting for small firms that could only focus on their business.

Robert
 • 16 September 2021
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Free electronic signature for every EU citizen.

Birliba Mugurel
 • 16 September 2021
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I initially called his wolf – Link Unic Portofoliu!
I now call me Smart Account Data Wallet DAPP so that it is closer to the realisation of Elrond’s innovations.

The implementation of digitisation, as a beneficial effect in the home at the level of the whole of the European Union, I would like to point out from the construction of the user with a unique virtual identity (that data and information from the user is from the safe source, that you have traceability) and from here I explain a bit below...

The Data Wallet model should be built around the online user, a virtual ‘dashboard’ attached to the user (SA- Smart Account activated KYC) on the Elrond block (Elrond resolved trilemma scalability, security and decentralisation).

In Data Wallet you can access (backend), via the dashboard interface, ‘sert’ specific to your personal and/or professional needs where you can add archives of tokenised documents such as diplomas, property deeds, certificates, contracts, professional evaluations and reviews, identity documents, NFTs, SFTs (i.e. double degrees, located at the transmitter and holder). I also ask you to complete (archive) the personal social and media profile and CV data as the only date, in the Smart Account account (numeinitialamamainitiala.elrond) in Data Wallet.

With the Smart Account activated on DAPP Data Wallet, the user is able to access and affix his own profile by clicking on all decentralised applications displayed on the internet which offer the option to connect and affix their own profile without having to leave the profile data on each online platform, centralised and decentralised.

As regards access to the Data Wallet SA, only you, the user, are the owner of the key to access your account, is the owner of all your data with which you ‘access the services’ on WEB. Included: A Smart Data Sample Contract and another SC to commission user transactions would be necessary!

In our case, as a Blockchain address (Smart Account) you attach a crypto wallet (Maiar App) but also a FIAT virtual card at the Data Wallet SA and beyond, the connection to the front end of any Marketplace is done via Wallet Connect, the protocol used in the Blockchain login.

The difference from the Maiar App login will consist of the fact that this SA Data Wallet will be placed on a Smart Account activated KYC, will be a dashboard with “virtual serting”, will be a decentralised application of the virtual user who will be able to access all the data under his own account, under its own private key, and the publication of the profile can only be activated once the Data Wallet connection is connected to (for example) a (any) marketing. Keeping the connection active on one or more markets will be a rough option by the user in order to keep his social media and CV profile visible in SA Data Wallet!

Adam
 • 16 September 2021
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An IT customer who uses the internet is only an economic operator who uses personal data not only for controllers but also for those who use them, partners, people who buy tresses and users of cookies – this should be prohibited. My postal service is deceptive and trivial in its services. I am the owner of the mail and not the network administrator and I have no right to collect information from me in exchange for the provision of a website

Aheiev Artur (YEA)  • 17 September 2021

Do not exclude elderly generation from the process of digitalization! Everyone should be provided with necessary support and explained about how e-democracy and e-services function.

Dumitru Balmez  • 19 September 2021

EU database against bureaucracy. An EU citizen should be able to renew his personal docs, for instance, anywhere in EU.

Dumitru Balmez  • 19 September 2021

Fake news are a threat to EU security, people health, economy, democracy. A threat to all our values, as dangerous as terrorism. My proposal is to treat it the same. Exactly the same. Zero tolerance, no mercy. Period.

Neil  • 20 September 2021

EU should start giving funds for member states to improve their digital infrastructures (UI/UX, stability and security) and should stimulate those improvements by setting deadlines and standards. This is so important because it'll help making administration sites more understandable and easy to use for all kinds of age groups during a time when most of state paperwork must be done online.

Ivanna Malchevska  • 21 September 2021

Fake news and disinformation are indeed major problems of the digital age. The danger of this is that the news world with facts and fakes may be different and is different from the real situation or state of affairs.
For example, hashtags or «expert columns» based on fake information build ideas and make people think about the reality or unreality of something.
Fake news and tags are skillfully used in hybrid wars, armed conflicts, occupation of territories.
Therefore, the hashtag #CrimeaIsRussia is not just a clickable phrase, but an instrument of hybrid warfare, Russia's disinformation campaign.
And the danger here is not only in real-time but also in the future. When, a few decades later, a young person clicks on a tag and looks at all the tweets that appear, he gets a false impression that Crimea was really Russian. Therefore, we see how dangerous disinformation is, including through tags.
Obviously, the EU institutions cannot filter tags and every tweet, because it is a game on the verge of censorship (bad) and combating disinformation (good).

But, paying attention to the seriousness of such «weapons» in the hands of the Russian Federation in particular, to the EU's values of Rule of Law and Human Rights, and paying attention to the EU's policy of non-recognition of Russia's occupation of Crimea, the EU can work to the tag was no longer clickable.

It’s a big and tough step, but it’s real and necessary these days when nothing is behind politics neither geopolitics.

Ivanna Malchevska  • 21 September 2021

Given the EU's policy of non-recognition of the Russian occupation of Crimea, the EU must respond to such things as verification of Russia's official social media accounts in the occupied territories (for example, Russia's MFA in Crimea, @MVD_Crimea, etc.).
Appropriate action in such a situation would be for the EU institutions to appeal to the social network company to remove the verification, or to block such accounts.
Russia's representations in occupied territories cannot be recognized. Blue ticks next to titles of accounts create a wide field for Russian authorities for manipulation.
And it is our responsibility to prevent this and prevent the official recognition of fake accounts of the occupying Russian authorities in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Polina Sydorchuk (Young European Ambassador in Ukraine)  • 21 September 2021

In digital world most children and youth faced cyberbullying, lack of privacy, unwelcome photos and hate speech in social media. It is important not only improving accessibility for all to the internet connection, but also to protect children from cyber attacks. We should fight fake news and hate speech online.

Firstly, we can provide free education for children about their digital rights and security. It can be educational cartoons, strategy for digital education in schools or Day of Digital Security.
Secondly, we could act locally in our communities and provide education and non-formal events about using social media and digital tools.

Most important, digital tools is not about restrictions, it is about knowledge.

Wiesław
 • 22 September 2021
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I would like to have an application in Pl to contact a health authority or a healthcare service so that you can arrange for a doctor or an office visit.

Vladyslava Vertogradska (Young European Ambassador)  • 22 September 2021

An idea Young European Ambassador from Ukraine:
I would like to propose an idea to create a free online course that would be available in multiple languages and would cover important topics such as privacy, cybersecurity, fake news, data protection, hate speech, and how social media platforms work. Most importantly, it would feature simple language to ensure that any audience can grasp the material easily and be able to comprehend it well. There is a need for such a solution as a lot of people do not fully understand the concept of fake news or social media algorithms or two-factor authentication. Due to the Internet becoming a crucial part of our daily lives, more awareness and knowledge should be available about it.

Louis  • 22 September 2021

Information technology, computer science and media should be taught as a mandatory subject in every European school.

The current pandemic exposed massive gaps in almost every European education system. As an instant response, most governments (and also EU institutions) tried to close those gaps with investments in hardware, software and digital infrastructure - with mixed results. A lot of students suffered extremely under the miserable learning & teaching concepts during the “homeschooling” or “remote school” period, although their schools invested heavily in digital products.
The root of those problems lies far beyond the institutes infrastructures or liquidity.
With the rise of cheap consumer electronics and gadgets that get smarter everyday, there sneaked a problem into everyday life without broad recognition: “digital illiteracy”.
Every student and every teacher use smartphones, social media, instant messaging, laptops, tablets, and so on. Bot how many of those people know what happens inside their phones when they start them up? How many of them know why their social media apps chose to show them this-and-that content? How many know how to code an app?

People today are consuming media and use devices they don’t understand. And the pandemic showed us, that an illiteracy like that could have fatal consequences. People know how to consume, and not how to create.

Our daily lives are heavily influenced, some times even dictated, by algorithms. Yet, the majority of today’s students doesn’t even know what an algorithm is or does.

Let’s change that problem by teaching everyone at least a standard knowledge of all that. Better late than never.

ALICIA RÍOS  • 23 September 2021
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European QUALITY LAW IN DIGITAL EDUCATION
From the Task Force for the Forum x the Future of the EU Team Europe Digital Transformation, we propose that the European Union should incentivise the creation of a European Quality Label in Digital Education (SECED). The SECED would function as a label for companies to certify and guarantee
the quality of their products and services.
The aim of SECED is to make sure that the training offered or requested is of high quality. In the case of publicly funded programmes, the possession of SECED
would be mandatory. This would ensure that public money is used productively by the authorities. Private companies could also benefit from the quality label through certification and recognition of the quality of the training they offer. It would also give prestige to the entities that obtain it.
The process for obtaining SECED would consist of subjecting the content and services provided by a company or institution to an audit by institutions
accredited by the competent European authorities. Some bodies that could carry out this service would be national agencies linked to the digital transformation.
One example would be the future National Digital Agency2 or the Italian Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale. Ideally, the audit process should be free of charge. To this end, they could be financed through the Recovery and Resilience Facility. Audits would be carried out on the basis of quality standards which should be established through close cooperation between public authorities, private authorities, experts and the public. The SECED will have to be renewed every four years.
From our perspective, standards should take into account in particular the timeliness and relevance of the content offered, the relevance of training to learners and the inclusion of transversal digital skills. Technologies and software tend to evolve and change rapidly. We believe that it is important for training
institutions to be able to adapt and be up to date.
At the same time, it is not useful to include content that the pupil will never have to use or that is irrelevant to his/her training.
SECED has the capacity to reduce inefficiencies, encourage the elimination of bad practices, and increase the quality of education of existing digital skills. It is the responsibility of everyone after making it happen.
This proposal has been set up in the framework of the Team Europe Forum x the Future of the EU.

ALICIA RÍOS  • 23 September 2021
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Training DIGITAL TO THE JVENIL GUARANTEE

SYSTEM TRAVEMENT we propose the adoption of a Council Recommendation emphasising digital training for all young Europeans, encouraging the provision
of courses through the Youth Guarantee scheme aimed at improving the digital skills of young people registered in all EU Member States.
We believe that taking this measure is essential as improving digital skills is one of the keys to improving the employability of
young Europeans today, bearing in mind that one of the objectives of the European Union is to develop a digital single market and that the digital transformation is
established as the basis for Europe’s economic and social recovery in the aftermath of the Covid-196 crisis.
however, to this end, it is considered essential that, as has been shown, it is also essential
that the Youth Guarantee be provided without increasing the Youth Guarantee.
On the other hand, we propose that this Council Recommendation promote teletraining in order, in addition to reducing the spread of Covid-19, to enable young people residing in other regions within the same Member State or even in another Member
State to access the training provided. By opting for the extension of potential beneficiaries to young people residing in other Member States,
they could benefit from the provision of digital training in a language other than mother tongue and thus further improve their employability.
Finally, we propose that the implementation of the above mentioned courses should be specifically monitored by the Employment Committee, which is the body that oversees
the Youth Guarantee scheme from an overall overview. Therefore, our proposal calls for EMCO to specifically assess the implementation of
digital training in the Member States and its mainstreaming on an annual basis.

Proposal in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the EU, Team Europe initiative.

ALICIA RÍOS  • 23 September 2021
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INCREASED PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN
ICT.

Proposal in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the EU, Team Europe initiative. I propose that a number of measures be taken by the EU:
— WOMEN’S ICT FELLOWSHIP: Specific programme of EU-funded scholarships for public bodies providing digital training for women.
— Partnership by the European Union with companies to create Europe-wide reference role models campaigns for women working in ICT. It is important to highlight the work done by women throughout history, so that European girls have female role models to aspire to. Conferences or events could be held by companies in the digital sector that have women in office.
— The Commission calls on the Member States to include the gender dimension in all proposals in the digital field. Digital skills support women’s participation in the community and in political life by providing women with the resources to express themselves and take an active part in the public sphere. Such skills can empower women to participate in political and social movements, to make situations of gender-based violence or discrimination visible.
The various governments of several EU countries have demonstrated a continuous and repeated disregard of the weak position of women in the technological context, to the point of saying that the various public authorities have abandoned
women in this fight. We therefore consider that this inequality in the digital sphere should not be dropped or left aside. For its part, the European Union can set up this type of scholarship and awareness-raising campaigns and not leave the Member States that fail to do so.

ALICIA RÍOS  • 23 September 2021
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Native and DIGITAL INMIGRANT INTERACTION
POLICY

Our proposal is to bring young and older people together with technology through local advisory points. Young people can help older people
lose their fear of technology, empower them to use it, teach the use of ICT in a friendly and fun way, and be able to do so.
A prior study of the different profiles of older people, their ICT concerns and needs should be carried out. The key to breaking the
digital divide in older people is not the best way to bring ICT to this population group, but the optimal way for older people to
benefit from ICT to improve their personal and social situation.
One of the objectives of the digital literacy of older people and their inclusion in the information society is to achieve a sufficient quality of life in their old age,
which can enable older people to live more fully and more participatory and can serve as essential tools in promoting their civic participation.
Just as Europe Direct Points have been set up at European level in the various Member States, to inform and respond to all sorts of European issues, we believe that there is a need to set up digital counselling training points, where young people with ICT
skills are at the service of society, and especially at the service of vulnerable groups such as older people. Digital assistance would be provided here to solve any issues, teach how to go online or download apps.
These young people could be students in socio-health careers, volunteers from youth associations and care professionals for older people. Such digital advice could be included within the Europe Direct Centres.
The difficulty of this initiative is the way in which, by means of a video call or telephone call, it was sufficient to teach an older person to make a daily check or use an app. That is why I think we could help us
with brochures or explanatory guides sent either online or by
post.
Communication of this service by traditional means, such as newspapers or television, or even through public health care, is essential, as it would be the main
way for older people to know and access it.
In 2010, a proposal was made to reduce the generational digital divide from the Commission, known as GrandparentsandGrandchildren. A pilot project was carried out
which consisted of mentors to train the future Grandchildren interested in the project, and then each Grandchildren trained a bigger person in digital subjects. These training courses took place in schools and had to be attended
by older people there. In addition, a website was created to enable them to access digital resources in their homes.

Proposal in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the EU, Team Europe initiative.

ALICIA RÍOS  • 23 September 2021
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TOD@S FOR TOD@S

We propose that the European Union promote the improvement of the internet connection network in rural areas, both in terms of quality and price, by encouraging the submission of projects and prioritising funding from the European Union over initiatives such as the creation of coworkings in rural areas or digital projects carried out by SMEs.
The inclusion of these two items on the European agenda could be done by DG CONNECT, who would prepare the necessary changes to existing funding programmes and could set up a communication strategy to incentivise the submission of new projects based on the results of their own research. Communication should be done both through traditional channels and through new media, such as social media, in order to achieve the widest possible dissemination.
The creation of co-workplace spaces encourages repopulation in these areas, leading to higher performance and better quality services, as well as creating a working environment in which professionals, teleworkers
and students can connect to the network and create dynamics of collaboration, thereby accelerating job opportunities.
Today, internet connectivity has become a vital part of our lives, becoming a major social and economic need due to the pandemic.
Extending and improving the internet connection service in rural areas, financing the creation of work spaces and internet connection (coworking), as well as reinvesting their economic performance in improving this service, can have a positive impact on
a large number of people.

Proposal in the context of the Forum x the Future of the EU, Team Europe initiative

ALICIA RÍOS  • 23 September 2021
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RE-USE OF DIGITAL DEVICES IN
CLASSROOMS.
We propose, on the one hand, that the European Commission include in its action plan, through measures to be taken by the Member States, real and practical solutions for the
effective re-use and repair of electronic devices and their possible fate to students in vulnerable situations and thus, in addition to helping to improve the
environment, reduce the existing digital divide in the European Union.
To this end, the European Commission could reward private initiatives for actions promoting the re-use and repair of digital devices and targeting European students in vulnerable situations. This European Commission initiative could be implemented through
the award of annual prizes, as is currently the case with the annual selection of nine model projects promoting digital skills in Europe, which can benefit from the European Social Fund.
We also propose the adoption of a Council Recommendation emphasising these solutions and also ensuring that educational institutions in the Member States help to reduce the digital divide between their
pupils, ensuring that they have access to a computer in any case if their studies so require. To this end, students could be provided with the reused
devices referred to above or allow access to the equipment available in the school outside school hours for the performance of
tasks related to the studies they are undertaking. This would create an ecosystem in which the re-use and repair of digital devices, as well as being beneficial for the environment, would help reduce the digital divide between students in the European Union.

Proposal in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the EU, Team Europe initiative.

Marcin
 • 23 September 2021
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Citizens’ security;
services guard against the collection of personal data and safeguards against depopulation of personal data

Oana  • 23 September 2021

Invest more in innovation, research and development in all the EU countries. If allocating funds for it, better check how these are used. Check impact after x years (3-5) as there are countries who make investments just for the sake of reporting high EU funds absorption rate. Afterwards, the respective objective is closed/ not used/ has no value for the community. Increase punishments for these malicious actions.

Giulia Oancea
 • 23 September 2021
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platforms at each trap of pedestrian crossing that feel when a pasta is on them in order to assess the time spent on the passage according to how many people are (on average).

Adam klyszcz  • 24 September 2021
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To ensure that Apple’s tablets are used instead of books to schools across the Union to avoid burdening pupils’ backs

Marius Marica  • 24 September 2021

Electronic identity card throughout the European Union.

Traian  • 24 September 2021

Digitalizarea Tuturor Institutiilor Publice , Nationale si Europene, Eliminarea Birocratiei, Aplicatiile de Plata Simple , Clare si Sigure.

Nuray  • 25 September 2021

Nowadays digital sphere developes gradually. Accordingly material and content that is loaded to the flexible internet source is more widespreaded and versatile. The safety measures are not enough to prevent the infraction of internet security. My idea is that to build-up a safeguard, based on AI that could define and automatically eliminate harmful online content, besides automatically shares the exact bug information or issue and a proccess of elimination as well to show interactively the harm that might affect the person. It will also be a potential awareness content for users to be more careful on digital sphere.

Nuray  • 25 September 2021

Nowadays the digital sphere developes gradually. Accordingly, the material and content that is download to the flexible internet source is more widespreaded and versatile. The safety measures are not enough to prevent the unproper online content. My idea is that to build-up a safeguard based on a AI that could easily define and eliminate the harmful content, besides the safeguard also will be able to share the extra bug information or issue in interactive way, explaining the proccess of elimination and a washback that might affected the user. It will be a potential public awareness to make people become more careful while using the digital sphere as well.

KACEL  • 25 September 2021

Créer un réseau social et le promouvoir ( pub...) pour l'europe
Garder ce réseau ouvert au monde entier
ça permettra
- De lier plus de liens digitaux ( economiques, touristiques, ....) entre européens
- Construire l'identité européene dans le monde
- Maitriser la sécurité des données des utilisateurs dans européens ...

Miłosz  • 25 September 2021

By the growing number of subjects in schools and growing costs of textbooks there should be option to be able to choose PDF version of it on lover costs since the price would no longer include costs of printing.

Ovidiu Caba  • 26 September 2021

Build one web/mobile APP where anyone can buy vignette for all EU countries. This would simplify the vignette acquisition and usage across EU.

Goals:
1. Uniformize and/or centralize the vignette acquisition for all EU countries.
2. Make the vignette acquirable online for all EU countries. In some countries (eg Slovenia) the vignettes are not available online.
3. Make them available for usage on highways and bridges in all EU countries. (in Italy, as a foreigner, I cannot pay the highway toll in advance so that I can pass the gates without stopping and waiting in the queue).

Lisa Markova  • 26 September 2021

To design an all-EU approach towards regulation of AI in the public sector, namely, to consider adopting the guidelines, as well as more detailed (binding) documents on AI procurement, oversight, transparency, prohibitions and moratoria etc. Besides, it might be useful to unite the efforts of the EU institutions in this regard with the international partners (Council of Europe, the UK and the US administrations, New Zealand etc.) and individual AI experts.

ALICIA RÍOS  • 26 September 2021
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7. Faced with the Respect of the Uneven ACCESS TO THE TECNOLÓGIUM RESOURCES

Inspired by the study and the subsequent publication by the European Commission entitled Facing the challenges of broband disposal in rural and remote areas, we propose that research be carried out funded and carried out by the European authorities with the aim of producing a publication summarising successful projects on access to technology. The publication would serve as an incentive and inspiration for both public and private entities and any interested citizen to develop their own projects by helping to improve access to technological resources.
The
study could be carried out by DG CONNECT, as well as the preparation of the publication of the selected results, projects and initiatives. Study and publication should give priority and greater visibility to projects financed or co-financed by the European Union with the dual aim of increasing the dissemination of results, as well as raising awareness of the European funding lines in this area. They should also have priorities, initiatives related to the social economy, as the aim of such initiatives is always to have the greatest possible positive social impact. In addition, recommendations and best practices should be added to enable readers to obtain information applicable to their own projects and initiatives. Finally, it should provide meeting points for the exchange of information between stakeholders and stakeholders. For example, by adding links to forums, event dates, or networking initiatives at European level related to promoting access to technology.
The
presentation of research results as well as the selection of initials, projects and good practices should be simple, clear and practically oriented. The selection should be made on the basis of criteria which mainly take into account the positive impact on the problem of lack of resources. Other secondary criteria could be the quality of the service/product implemented or the ability to be reimplemented in a similar context.

Access to technological resources is a key element in a more up-to-date, integrated and digital Europe. The exchange of good practices and knowledge of successful initiatives is a good stimulus to solve the problems faced by citizens. The creation of a guide such as the proposal can help to generate this kind of incentive.

This is a proposal in the framework of the Team Europe Forum x the Future of the EU.

Tinatin Tabidze  • 27 September 2021

Further digitalization of education across the EU

Although, the all-encompassing remote learning may seize to exist with the end of pandemic, some aspects of digital transformation in education should be considered as permanent, for example:
- electronic system for tracking student result across all EU counties. This will enable student exchange among countries, contribute to intellectual flow beyond borders and will systemize education system in different countries to make the admission process simpler
- A digital admission portal for all EU universities. This encompasses a digital platform, where all admission documents are uploaded and sent out to EU educational institutions. As such, it will incentivize university students to take part in exchange programs, study abroad and will simplify the search for higher education.
However, the aforementioned call for some adjustments. Namely:
- The need for internet access in rural areas
- A unified digital tracking system
- A unified digital portal for all EU higher education institutions
However, the results will ensure a simplified approach to exchange studies, studying abroad and cultural exchange among students from the EU.

Mohammed Nur e zannat  • 28 September 2021

We want everything should go online but don't forget there are so many people still don't know how to use it very well.
So, I would like to say we should digitalize everything but we have to keep the normal work as well.
Imagine if the wifi connection suddenly broken or an old person who can not fill out the plf form through online for traveling?

Octavian  • 28 September 2021

Public observability over public spending

How hard it will be to create a software where institutions post their spending on services or acquisitions ?
Not that hard. There are already lots of web/software applications that are doing just that.

What would be hard, is probably to make the institutions use that software and be accountable for whatever they spend people money.
Just imagine how easy would be to detect fraud, corruption, bad investments, sectors that need more resources, across EU.

brochard  • 29 September 2021

Make privacy a human right

We know that governments have used the internet as a global surveillance system for years, we know they still do.
We know journalists and activists are getting hacked and killed on a regular basis based on this mass surveillance.
We know governments want to have even more access to any data they can, they push it "for the childrens" or "against terrorism" but we know what they want, breaching encryption for "safety" is a lie, dangerous people wont ever use unencrypted messaging, the only impacts of breaching encryption is on peoples privacy and on journalists and activists. Thats an attack on freedom to inform.

Salome Ghachava (Young European Ambassador)  • 29 September 2021

Creating digital career guidance platform for enhancing employability and proper career planning through students, jobseekers and alumni.

The digital platform's functionality provides full access to products and services in the field of career counseling, career management, professional orientation, personal and professional development, and employment opportunities. At its core, along with career management, the platform is an alternative, digital space for employment that connects the student, who may also be interested in employment, the jobseeker and potential employers. The platform development and management methodology is based on the most effective and efficient practices and tools of international career management and employment promotion.

Who are the target groups of digital career guidance platform:
- Students and novice jobseekers – can get information on vacancies, internship programs, summer jobs or temporary employment opportunities on the entry-level positions in companies.
- Employer - can properly introduce the need to possible interested people and quickly provide information about its vacancies. Also, employer can have access to the profiles of candidates of different professions, experience that are already available on the platform from databases and can communicate with jobseekers via platform. As a result, the employer makes much better choice in much less time, while saving 30-35% of recruitment costs.
- Jobseeker – can proactively introduce himself/herself to the employee (virtual personal profile), contact the desired companies and their representatives and not just be in a reactive mode - busy finding information about existing employment opportunities, waiting and just sending CV to open vacancies. As a result, the job seeker receives information about vacancies on an ongoing basis, better positioning himself/herself and increasing employment chances through a proactive approach.
- Vocational education program providers and other personal and professional development program services and products providers – can post information about their programs and enable registered users to share comprehensive information about program content, expected outcomes and benefits. On the other hand, these programs help those interested in professional development to develop specific programs focused on their professional development needs.
- Career consultants, job coaches and career planning specialists, as well as various types of personal development experts - mentors, tutors, psychotherapists, and coaches - post their services and product information on the platform and offer career advice if interested in personal and / or professional development for:
o Making the right decisions when choosing a profession
o Preparing career and professional guides based on individual capabilities
o Select the most relevant development tools and programs to improve personal and professional capabilities
o Find the most resourceful position to consciously begin to set personal and professional development goals and fully and independently manage the process of achieving them.

Modules of the platform:
- Creating a personal portfolio (person / organization) - Virtual CV - Personal Resume with full ability to manage and update information. Personal virtual profile of the person includes:
o Professional experience
o Career path
o Education and training
o Information on development opportunities - according to the interests of the profile.

- Different types of development programs and development resources - online and offline. Ability to automatically view information about the results of the program in the profile and generate it as an electronic certificate, which is attached to the individual profile and personal portfolio.

- Ability to submit online applications for existing vacancies – Jobseeker also submits application for vacancies on the platform via virtual profile.

- Proactive communication with employers - Direct contact with the official websites or contact persons of employers (organizations) or through a personal career counsellor.

- Career guide (career ladder) - Development of career and development strategy - service, consulting and advice - how and in what direction to develop a career; Assess personal and professional capabilities using a variety of tools and assess current profile and capabilities to create tailor-made and realistic career development strategies.

- Personal Career Advisor - Personal Advisor is a person who knows your capabilities and offers the shortest paths and puts together a strategy, action plan for career development (steps for the future months and years).

- Personal Professional Development Expert - A person who evaluates jobseeker’s career, personal and professional abilities, skills and habits and makes diagnoses according to what are the requirements in the labor market (local, international), readiness to meet these requirements in terms of knowledge, skills and personal characteristics. He/She makes a gap analysis - what an jobseeker lacks to get a job or position in an interesting position and in an interesting company. Develop a professional, personal development plan with a jobseeker: How to develop knowledge, skills and necessary qualities in what ways and tools. Expert does career coaching and mentoring sessions with a pre-defined schedule.

- Constantly inform a jobseeker about employment opportunities, employment trends, employment within projects, jobs to be performed, outsourced services based on his/her interests. The information will be provided to the jobseeker on the basis of the existing analysis and needs in the markets of Georgia and abroad (information on employment opportunities and distance employment in international companies in other countries and their needs).

- Additional Online Services, which will also be available offline upon request.

Youness  • 29 September 2021

Invest in DATA CENTERS. We need to make our own Data Centers, our own Data companies. Stop relying on US companies.

Mariana Burac (Young European Ambassador)  • 29 September 2021

Increase awareness about digital literacy

In an increasingly digitalised world, data has become a sort of ‘currency’ which is being collected in exchange for a seemingly “free” service. Data subjects often encounter situations where their consent to data collection and processing is required in order to access a website. It is important to inform people of the ways in which their data is collected and how they can protect themselves against such practices of the Big Tech companies. This explanation should be given in simple language that is accessible to all ages.

Laimis  • 29 September 2021

Make a Euronet platform funded by the E.U. and the people. It would be a democtratic
media where people(conected with their documents) vote for changes on the platform and can go on sub-platforms to vote in their counties, no ads and perhaps less adicting. Also atck other international medias for privacy violations.

Nino Bochoidze (Young European Ambassador)  • 30 September 2021

One day, I hope, we forget papers and have electronic elections in all the EaP countries. We can use the helping hand of artificial intelligence and I think it is time to use digital technology for strengthening democracy.

Ionescu Marius  • 02 October 2021

Buna ziua! Sunt developer de aproape 16 ani in grafica si programare digitala, VR si AR, in ultimul timp am studiat integrare de robotica si roboti arduino in User Interfece, mi-ar placea sa progresez in asta si cred foarte tare ca viitorul serelor va depinde de asta intr-o economie in colaps!

Nuray  • 02 October 2021

Nowadays digital sphere developes gradually. Accordingly the material and content that is loaded to the flexible internet source is more widespreaded. The safety measures are not enough to prevent the unproper online content that is loaded to the easy reachable websites daily. My idea is that to build-up a safeguard based on AI that could easily define and eliminate the harmful content, besides the safeguard will be able to share the extra bag information or issue in interactive way, explaining the proccess of elimination and a washbach that might affected the user. Also it will be a potential public awareness to make people become more careful while using the digital sphere.

Nuray ( Young European Ambassador Azerbaijan)  • 02 October 2021

I would like to propose the idea that, by reducing the the high-intensity jobs which demand extra and surplus human effort;however, possibly replaceable with the Artificial intelligence. What is more, easily get along without human intensity , some global issues such as increased tax,  and increased human force demand will be solved. To consider, consumption that will be diminished, robots will take effort and further erode the tax revenue. Also there will be chance to save physical force and alternate the human energy for other spheres with more profit.

Maximilian Weiss
 • 02 October 2021
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Fibre and 5G roll-out need to be accelerated. Priority should be given to European firms. This is the only way to prevent the data from reaching false hands and being used against us. The roll-out of fibre is important for our economy so that data can be exchanged properly.

Domokos Péter Kovács  • 04 October 2021

The circular economy in the EU is to be strengthened, harmonized and digitized. The EU is not only a political community, it also offers a unique economic area. In some Member States the circular economy works very well, waste is seen as a raw material, but the EU must act together to become a world champion of the circular economy, use resources responsibly and ensure a sustainable future.

Patrick Rataud  • 04 October 2021

EU institutions shall support the build up of a handset of european social networks. To launch a couple of RFP for EU providers to develop a meeting platform, a social network and a search engine, that would be used for all official EU communication (likewise this consultation). How is it possible a russian guy was able to launch a worldclass platform and would not be any european company? Why not a European Teams/Webex/GoTo... and a Facebook/WhatsApp/...? Why not promoting QWANT and similar European solutions?
This would permit to protect European citizen and indutry data.
European nation and insitutions shall stop being naive and candid, digital sovereignty is a must, not solely a fair market trade.

LYMEC  • 04 October 2021

LYMEC's vision on political priorities - Europe's digital transformation

Europe's digital transformation:
• The EU needs to target investment to support research and innovative start-ups alongside programs for upskilling the European workforce, equipping citizens with improved digital skills and other skills relevant to the 21st century.
• The EU must ensure the protection of citizens’ privacy in the Information Age.
• We must work towards a digital-friendly regulatory framework, which would encourage innovation and global competitiveness. Innovation has to be encouraged and not curbed. We therefore approve incentives for European companies investing in innovative products and solutions to support innovation in Europe. We oppose any taxes on innovation or scientific research.
• The EU should introduce measures supporting schools to educate pupils in ICT skills, including a particular focus on increasing pupils’ knowledge of programming and of the threats to privacy a digital society may create, and targeted retraining efforts for those members of the workforce negatively affected by the shift.

LYMEC  • 04 October 2021

LYMEC's vision on political priorities - Europe's digital transformation

Europe's digital transformation:
• The EU needs to target investment to support research and innovative start-ups alongside programs for upskilling the European workforce, equipping citizens with improved digital skills and other skills relevant to the 21st century.
• The EU must ensure the protection of citizens’ privacy in the Information Age.
• We must work towards a digital-friendly regulatory framework, which would encourage innovation and global competitiveness. Innovation has to be encouraged and not curbed. We therefore approve incentives for European companies investing in innovative products and solutions to support innovation in Europe. We oppose any taxes on innovation or scientific research.
• The EU should introduce measures supporting schools to educate pupils in ICT skills, including a particular focus on increasing pupils’ knowledge of programming and of the threats to privacy a digital society may create, and targeted retraining efforts for those members of the workforce negatively affected by the shift.

Patricio Centeno
 • 04 October 2021
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Secure European Parliament elections

INTRODUCTION
The last elections to the European Parliament saw a record turnout and in order to maintain this positive trend, citizens need to be assured of the integrity of the election results. Citizens’ trust has been affected by numerous attacks, such as France or the United States, as well as during the COVID-19 pandemic. The accelerated pace of technological progress means that the elections in 2024 will take place in a substantially different picture from 2019.
An attack on the European Parliament elections, even limited to one country, would undermine the democratic legitimacy of the European Union. Election technology in itself is neither more nor less secure than paper-based voting solutions, but it must meet the same legal requirements as traditional elections: free, open and fair, and based on secret voting.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
Even when voting is on paper, technology is present throughout the electoral cycle. The main vulnerabilities include: voter registration, protection of citizens’ data, confidentiality of communication, and the voting and counting process itself. The situation is aggravated by the specificities of elections to the European Parliament, such as cross-border voter registration and flexibility at the time of completion.
Insufficient cybersecurity therefore endangers not only the democratic nature and geostrategic position of the EU, but also the well-being and personal security of citizens. Due to the diversity of potential perpetrators and their motivations, as well as the difficulty in attributing attacks, cooperation between all Member States and institutions should focus on risk prevention and crisis management.
Rapid digitalisation precipitated by COVID-19 encourages the implementation of electronic solutions, including in electoral matters. However, Eurobarometer results show that European citizens recognise the usefulness of voting electronically, online or by post, but are concerned about the reliability of the results. As ENISA itself indicates that e-voting will increase cyber risk, several countries have abandoned these initiatives to focus on strengthening the trust and transparency of the current electoral process.

PROPOSAL
Considering that an incident would have significant disruptive effects on the electoral system, it needs to be granted the status of essential service under the proposed revision of the Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity, known as NIS 2. Based on criticality for the economy and society, the Commission proposes in Annex I to extend the scope by adding three sectors, i.e. waste water, space and public administration, and the latter is where the electoral process fits in.
This is a measure already recommended by both the European Parliament and ENISA, which is not only part of the priority “A Europe fit for the digital age” but also contributes to the protection of democracy and the promotion of the European way of life.
The classification of the electoral system as an essential service shall entail the obligation to draw up a national cybersecurity strategy, to submit summary reports and to report incidents. In combination with the peer review and the bi-annual reports of ENISA, information exchange will be strengthened and risks addressed in a timely manner. Cooperation in the framework of CSIRT and EU-CyCLONe will also be possible, as well as the use of European certification.
The measure will also empower the NIS Cooperation Group in electoral matters, as an extension of its publication of the above-mentioned Compendium on Cyber Security of Election Technology, and in line with the European Democracy Action Plan establishing cooperation with the European Cooperation Network on Elections. The NIS Cooperation Group has the potential to play a role in informing and raising awareness of electoral cyber security issues.
In addition, this format can be used to set up an Electoral Cybersecurity Task Force to monitor the European Parliament elections in 2024, update the Compendium, conduct exercises and hackathons, as well as exchange of best practices. The lessons learned will serve as a starting point for the future implementation of Internet voting.

This proposal has been set up in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the European Union, a Team Europe initiative.

Patricio Centeno
 • 04 October 2021
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CONNECTING THINGS TO A SINGLE INTERNET AND
SAFE

INTRODUCTION
The Internet of Things (IoT) can be defined as a network created by the connection of physical objects (to local networks or the Internet) that exchange data, interact and have sensors, software and other technologies. The areas of application of the IoT extend
health, production and logistics, agriculture, telecommunications, cloud storage and processing. By 2019 there were 620 IoT platforms and 25 billion devices are expected to be connected by 2021. These generated revenues of ca. USD 61 billion in 2019; consumer spending in 2020 for smart home devices was USD 115 billion.

Technological and telecommunications infrastructure developments such as 5G connection and low orbit satellites (Low Earth Orbit “LEO”) will enable the IoT to increase the speed of data connection and transmission, expanding its scope and use.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
Trends show that investment in IoT for health, industrial, urban and smart home applications (e.g. cameras and recordings on public sites, temperature control, orders and traffic applications) will increase. Projections suggest that by 2025 there will be more than 30,90 billion connections generating 79,40 ZB (i.e. a GB trillon) of data. The EU acknowledges this trend and published in 2018 a document which aimed to lay the foundations for the treatment of emerging technologies (e.g. IoT) in the DSM.

ENISA and other specialised stakeholders recognise the complexity of the ecosystem and the challenge of defining security measures linked to IoT and assigning responsibilities to existing legislation. These have published reports and tools on the security of technological applications and ‘best practices’ in IoT risk analyses.

The initiative seeks to publish policies and regulations that encourage data processing and facilitate the allocation of responsibilities; provides for the creation of a common European data space; investments30 on high impact projects; and facilitate the use of safe, competitive and fair cloud services.

Based on the above, we found 4 key problems:
(1) the increased use of technologies in vulnerable sectors, the potential impacts will be more severe.
(2) complex ecosystem and lack of awareness of threats (and their origin).
(3) technological developments and timeless regulations.
(4) obsolescence of devices (and their impact on consumers and the environment).

PROPOSAL
In November 2020, ENISA published a reporte33 consolidating a number of risks to IoT-connected devices into five broad categories. ENISA shared best practices on cybersecurity in IoT devices grouped under: actors, processes and technologies. In this working group, we welcome and incorporate ENISA’s recommendations in its report and include them in the proposal for five pillars that we make.

(1) design and systematise a European ‘Hackathon’ programme 34 to raise awareness of potential threats and find solutions to risks in the IoT. These hackathons should happen several times a year with headquarters in multiple Member States (or online) with diverse interest groups with a degree of knowledge of the IoT (e.g. students, experts, young IT staff).

(2) create a ‘European label’ for IoT devices that intend to connect on European networks, even if the physical device is located outside the EU. This ‘label’ must be issued by an EU body (or its MS, relying on EU regulations) and will act as a certification ensuring that the device meets minimum safety and performance requirements.

(3) create regulations and regulations to set requirements (e.g. frequency and quality) for review and control (by the manufacturer) of any third party software that could be connected to IoT devices. Failing this and to promote open source, harness AI to find safety faults in third party applications and establish mechanisms for remote updates.

(4) include a user friendly document describing essential device information (e.g. factory safety preferences, list of components and Software Bill of Materials).

(5) update and develop legislation to protect the service continuity of IoT devices. In particular, addressing the problem of obsolescence of devices at the following levels:
(a) Capacity limitations (e.g. memory) to make software updates in the future to medium term.
(b) Closing of maintenance services and deployment of patches
security.
(c) establish minimum levels of required interaction between devices of different versions to promote a sustainable and durable ecosystem.
(D) Planned Obsolescence. Using quality materials, ensuring accessible and safe repairs, reducing the environmental impact of electronic waste.

Patricio Centeno
 • 04 October 2021
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EUROPEAN DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY

INTRODUCTION
Given the growing dependence on digital technologies in all areas, a number of proposals are being put forward in the pursuit of European digital sovereignty. In order to ensure that the digital revolution is aligned with EU principles such as respect for human rights, the fight against climate change or the defence of democracies, sovereignty in this area is needed.

While the implications of European digital sovereignty cover more areas than cybersecurity, dependence in other countries on digital matters is considered to pose a serious threat to Europeans’ cybersecurity. This is why it has been included
as a proposal within this cluster.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
Today, the role of the EU is becoming less and less relevant in the digital world. The following statistics are a sample of this.

● 92 % of data from Western countries is stored in the United States and, under certain conditions, accessible by the government.
● The deployment of 5G base stations in Europe is one third lower than in the United States and about 50 times lower than in China.
● European technology companies’ R & D investment is between 2 and 5 times lower than Chinese or US.
● In the ranking of technology companies with the highest revenues, we do not find a single European among the top 20.

Current dependency, especially in the United States, is not acceptable if it is to be a relevant player on the international scene. The transatlantic alliance is certainly positive on both sides, but it should be based on a collaborative relationship, far from
of current dependency. For any doubt, examples such as the NSA’s illegal tapping of Angela Merkel and other European leaders show what clear technological superiority can lead to.

Like countries working to have energy autonomy, best possible infrastructure or effective armed forces, the EU should understand digital technologies as a critical area of equal strategic importance. The geostrategic implications of new technologies, security and defence are evident.

PROPOSAL
Once the worrying situation has been briefly introduced, a number of proposals are put forward to help bring the EU to the role it deserves in the new digital world.

1. Supporting the European Telco sector in deploying the infrastructure needed for Europe’s digitalisation. We cannot rely on such a fragmented and weakened sector for such a critical task. Co-investment or digital vouchers are some ideas that would allow having an optic fibre network and 5G coverage commensurate with the needs.
2. Use of European funds for digital projects that maintain consistency between Member States. Projects should be interlinked with those of other Member States in order to multiply their impact. It is therefore proposed that the criteria for the assessment of the plans of each Member State should take this consideration fully into account.
3. Protection of assets and strategic acquisition companies of other States. This proposal is intended to avoid, for example, the purchase of Kuka by China or the sale of thousands of Telefónica’s telecommunications towers to American Towers.
4. Creation of European digital champions which, on the one hand, have the volume and resources necessary to compete with big tech and, on the other, serve as guarantors of European principles. Continuing to ban mergers of companies will not help to strengthen Europe in the digital world, as it has so far. Specifically, it is proposed to prioritise the following areas:
a. Cybersecurity. Union of efforts by member countries and sectors (defence and technology) in the search for leading European actors.
B. Data and AI. The EU must work towards alliances between
European companies and bodies, alternatives to airlines exist
foreigners who store our data and therefore have a huge advantage in the development of AI. The volume of industrial data will increase dramatically and we must ensure that they live in the EU.
c. Semiconductors. Speed up the intentions already presented by the
Commission.

These proposals have been created in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the European Union, a Team Europe initiative.

Patricio Centeno
 • 04 October 2021
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GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY TREATY

INTRODUCTION
The digital revolution in which we are immersed offers us a plethora of advantages that a few years ago seemed impossible to us. However, this revolution brings with it new risks that we must face. Cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated, while identifying their perpetrators remains very complicated, resulting in more vulnerable citizens, states and businesses.

This has become even more evident during the pandemic. On the one hand, technology has made it possible to maintain contact with our loved ones despite distance, but on the other hand, there has been an unprecedented increase in cyber attacks during these months.

If we want to unlock the full potential of the digital revolution, it seems clear that there is a need to reach a global agreement defining common rules in the digital world, as they already exist in the physical world, and to enforce compliance once they are in place.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
The current security situation in the digital world is increasingly worrying. One of the main reasons is that the absence of borders in the digital world makes it difficult to attribute responsibilities without the collaboration of other countries. As a result, there is a sense of impunity that helps to increase cyber crime, using new technologies and becoming increasingly aggressive as evidenced by the latest IOCTA report.

It is also a serious problem for some states to rely on this lack of regulation at international level to carry out operations against other states, sometimes even by funding cyber criminal groups. From a geostrategic point of view, the world of cyber is a more urgent and urgent to regulate. Without a global agreement, cyber espionage operations, access to critical infrastructure, disinformation, etc. will become increasingly common as they are already happening.

In addition, our dependence on technology is growing and therefore more worrying about the consequences of a possible global cyber attack.

If not, the emergence of new technologies such as 5G or the explosion of the Internet of Things – it is estimated that 50 trillion devices will be connected to the internet by 2030 – makes this regulation all the more necessary.

PROPOSAL
In order to address the situation described in the previous paragraph, it is proposed that the European Union should lead the search for a comprehensive treaty on cybersecurity. Bearing in mind the great progress made by the adoption of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime in 2001, led by the Council of Europe, it is proposed to seek a treaty to respond to the new threats that have emerged in these 20 years. This convention brings significant benefits to the signatory countries and can therefore be a major starting point.

The following is a summary of the most relevant points that the treaty should consider:

● Collaboration between states in defence against cyber-attacks and in the attribution of criminal acts. This is an aspect of the Budapest Convention under the concept of Mutual Legal Assistance which, however, remains inefficient in practice. It is proposed to take into account the recommendations proposed by the Cyber Crime Convention Committee.

● Definition of rules and sanctions for countries preventing the fight against cyber crime or directly or indirectly committing cyber-attacks against other states, companies or citizens. Just as sanctions are imposed on countries for violating other international regulations, the proposed treaty should have the same ambition. The fact that the EU has already set an example of such sanctions is a big step.

● Definition of criminal liability in software development (SW). To date, this is something that does not exist and is a very significant cause in the vulnerabilities that are exploited. Countries acceding to this treaty should agree on the responsibilities for their SW developments and the consequences of launching a product on the “unsafe” market. Countries that do not accede to the treaty would not be able to sell their SW to the signatory countries, or equipment using software developed in an unsafe way.

● Linked to the previous point, an expert group should be set up to define and implement the concept of “cybersecurity by design”.

● Respect the whole and openness of the network. The treaty should aim to find the tools to ensure cybersecurity without abandoning the whole network and the benefits it brings to us. Other models advocating separating networks have the associated risk of facilitating greater control and censorship over their citizens, which is completely contrary to EU values.

These proposals have been created in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the European Union, a Team Europe initiative.

Patricio Centeno
 • 04 October 2021
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR GENUINE INFORMATION

INTRODUCTION
Disinformation campaigns often occur in combination with cyber-attacks and are part of hybrid threats. Since 2015, but above all since 2018, the European Union has taken various measures against disinformation, such as:
this can be the Communication "Tackling online disinformation: a European approach “, the” Action Plan against Disinformation “or the” Code of Practice on Disinformation”. However, the constant development of new technologies increases the potential for abuse by malicious actors. It is therefore imperative to activate the capabilities of technology in the protection of European values.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
Disinformation presents a threat to public opinion, freedom of expression and democracy in general, as stated by 83 % of Europeans in Eurobarometer 464. It is a phenomenon that makes use of technology both for the creation of fake content and for its dissemination on a large scale. The situation has been aggravated by
digitalisation forced by the COVID-19 pandemic due to dependence on online information and high level of uncertainty. As a result, EU efforts against disinformation have increased, but the multiplicity of
working groups scattered across different bodies make it difficult to respond in a coordinated and comprehensive manner and lead to duplication. In addition, it should be borne in mind that disinformation does not always come from outside the EU.

Technology is also the most appropriate tool to tackle fake news, in particular Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is able to process huge amounts of data and continuously improve. The Malicious Uses and Abuses of Artificial Intelligence by EUROPE’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) includes a
extensive case study on deepfakes and their detection by AI, and warns against lowering entry barriers in the use of AI by criminals. The application of AI in the fight against disinformation should be subject to ethical guidelines to ensure its excellence and trust in line with the White Paper published by the Commission in 2020.

PROPOSAL
The positive implementation of Artificial Intelligence is able to tackle the malicious use of new technologies, as recognised in the Communication Tackling online disinformation: a European approach. It is therefore proposed to set up an AI unit against disinformation under the joint command of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and the Hybrid Fusion Cell of the European External Action Service (EEAS). This unit should carry out a risk assessment and produce a toolbox leading to the detection and effective response to false information. Cooperation between Europol and the EEAS will build on their experience in the area of Cyber —
dependent crime and the use of AI, and disinformation, respectively. In addition, Europol will provide significant operational support and allow the sharing of good practices with Member States’ national agencies.

The unit should form a multidisciplinary group among all current teams and projects dealing with AI and disinformation, including ad hoc ENISA Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (ahWGAI), Europol Cyber Intelligence
Team, Joint Research Centre, European Defence Agency (EDA), European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), AI4Media (project part of the European Network of AI Excellence Centres). Funding can come from the new Digital Europe programme or Horizon Europe.
The use of AI in the fight against disinformation has many advantages, such as automated detection reduces the processing time of the huge amount of data, as well as the verification of its veracity. In addition, the use of Machine Learning enables continuous improvement of the ability to identify patterns. On the other hand, AI is better positioned to identify poles published by bots and deepfakes.

However, the limitations of AI should be recognised and human oversight should be retained in order to ensure the implementation of the principles of excellence and trust, as well as respect for other regulations such as the GDPR. What is more, it is imperative that cybersecurity experts prevent fake news detection algorithms from becoming targets for cyber-attacks. This is the only way to deliver on the priorities A Europe fit for the digital age and a new push for European democracy and achieve the objectives of Digital Compass 2030.

These proposals have been created in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the European Union, a Team Europe initiative.

Patricio Centeno
 • 04 October 2021
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MORE EUROPEAN SOFTWARE, MORE SECURE SOFTWARE

INTRODUCTION
In the European Union, we have the free movement of people, goods, capital and services. In this context and adapting to our reality, the Digital Single Market (DSM) has been created. The DSM poses problems that obstruct its proper functioning at an ideal level. A proposal will be made to address the growing need to develop software in Europe. The aim is to ensure that the product developed in the EU is software that is safe by design and adheres to European safety regulations, protocols and standards to achieve the objectives of the EU’s Digital Single Market.

This proposal seeks to enhance the effects of other EU legislation on the protection of personal data (e.g. GDPR) and intellectual property, as well as to increase “industrial sovereignty” and to address the priority of the von der Leyen administration of having a “Stronger Europe in the World”.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
The DSM was an initiative adopted by the European Commission in May 2015 and aimed at removing barriers between the physical and digital world, promoting online interaction between EU Member States (MS).

The DSM proposal is based on three pillars covering a broad spectrum of digital services:
1. Access. Improving digital access for consumers and businesses.
2. Ambient: Promoting prosperity by levelling the ground for participants (e.g. infrastructure, cybersecurity, transparency).
3. Economy and society: Digitalisation as a driver of the economy.

In 2012, the European Commission published a communication in which, among other things, five priorities for further planning were identified. Priorities included: many abuses and difficult disputes, insufficient legal provision of online services, inadequate payment and delivery systems and insufficient deployment of
basic Networks:

The EU has funded digital projects with the objective of Horizon 2020 (EUR 2million between 2014 and 2020). However, there is a lack of presence of European developments and companies in basic software, commonly used and commercial applications, where American and Asian competitors have lost ground; coupled with a strong trend of change in the international system on which EU integration is based. One example was the lack of a European messaging solution covering the needs of privacy and protection of personal data (not achieved by Whatsapp, but by other foreign applications such as Signal).

PROPOSAL
In order to foster a competitive, secure and achievable DSM, the EU should encourage and promote the development, distribution and adoption of secure software by design in Europe that relies on European cybersecurity standards (e.g. encryption of data, authentication, traceability), rules that promote European values of protection of personal data and intellectual property. The proposal assumes that after adoption through the MS as a block of influence, the EU would have a greater say on the international stage.

The proposal is based on 3 pillars:
(1) financing conditional on the contemporary landscape: The EU should increase funding efforts for ICT projects within Europe, with more frequently revised funding conditions and the recommendations of specialised agencies (ENISA) with specific cybersecurity points to be covered. The European market has great potential to develop IT services and products (e.g. software demand linked to the adoption of IT tools and MS investments in software I D) which are untapped due to high development and distribution costs.

(2) education: The Commission should promote educational and financial support programmes for EU resident citizens seeking greater gender equity in youth education to address the lack of local developers. The gap between demand and supply from developers is one of the main reasons for the increase in software development costs in the EU (e.g. in 2018, the shortage of developers in Finland was projected to increase from 7.000 to 15.000 by 2020).

(3) promotion of European software: The European Commission should find effective ways to promote the uptake of European software developments by mass consumers of software starting with public administrations. The Commission should promote the voluntary implementation of European software at different levels of public administrations in each Member State. SE
suggests the establishment of a transparent and competitive public procurement framework in line with the regulatory framework of free international competition that requires safe developments in line with European regulations.

These proposals have been created in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the European Union, a Team Europe initiative.

Patricio Centeno
 • 04 October 2021
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STRATEGIC CYBERSECURITY AND CYBER DEFENCE RESERVE

INTRODUCTION
Given the increasing risks in cyberspace dominance and increasingly worrying prospects, it is considered necessary to create a strategic cyber security and defence reserve that can be activated in the event of cyber-attacks on a state. This pool would consist of civilian personnel, with multidisciplinary skills and training that would support a state’s cyber defence and cybersecurity structures when required.

Although defence competences belong to each Member State, there are different actions that the European Union can carry out with the ultimate goal of equipping Member States with better capabilities for their cyber defence. It is important to mention that some Member States have initiatives in place
similar to the one proposed here such as France. In Spain, it is a debate that has been alive since 2015 and includes a non-law proposal submitted to the Congress of Deputies.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
Member States have limited resources to address the growing risks in cyberspace and a growing perimeter to defend. In addition, there is a large shortage of profiles with the necessary cybersecurity training; demand for these professionals continues to grow. As a result,
States cannot compete with private companies in recruiting these profiles.

Moreover, the very diverse nature of cyber-attacks means that the equipment confronting them must be multidisciplinary. For example, engineers and IT engineers, from a technical point of view, but also psychologists and anthropologists who understand the models
cultural and influence relationships. Coordinating teams with different profiles is not a task that is achieved in a short time and requires time and dedication.

Moreover, this proposal aims to promote public private collaboration in a critical area to secure our fundamental rights. This collaboration has so far been very limited and given the complexity and dynamism of the
cyber defence is a luxury we cannot afford. Therefore, the strategic cybersecurity reserve is designed to support and complement the work already done by armed forces, intelligence and law enforcement professionals with the capacities of civil society.

PROPOSAL
The proposed initiative is the creation of a strategic cybersecurity and cyber defence reserve by each Member State. This reserve would be made up of civilian personnel, committed to defending their Nation, and making their capabilities available to the institution responsible for cyber defence.
in each Member State.

These reservoirs would form multidisciplinary teams and be sued under crisis situations where, for example, state institutions, critical infrastructure or public administrations face serious cyber threats.

In addition, this initiative would help create a collaborative social network that would generate activities with high added value and a high impact on society. Similarly, it would be very positive to boost civil society’s awareness and responsibility in national defence, a very worrying aspect in some European countries according to the
surveys such as Spain.

Below is a summary of the concrete measures that the European Union is supposed to take to boost the creation of a strategic cybersecurity and cyber defence reserve by each Member State.
1. Coordination between Member States for the search for, creation and training of high-performance multidisciplinary teams.
2. Supporting states in acquiring training platforms, resource sharing and best practices
3. Definition of rewards for reservoirs: military, reputational, administrative, academic...
4. Definition of incentives for private companies, universities or administrations to encourage their employees to join the online booking. Reservists must be given the time necessary for preparation to enable them to respond when they are sued. As a specific measure, it is proposed to exceptionally assess the presentation of reservoirs in public specifications.
5. Creation of a Talent Screening Scheme from which carriers participating in this initiative can benefit.

These proposals have been created in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the European Union, a Team Europe initiative.

Patricio Centeno  • 04 October 2021
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DIGITAL GREEN PASSPORT: A MANAGEMENT TO NORMALITY AND cyber crimes

INTRODUCTION
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of the health sector as a target for cyber-attacks. In 2020 data breaches in this sector increased by 55 % to a total cost of USD 13.2 billion. This is due to low investment in cybersecurity despite the strong reliance of health care on new technologies, combined with the shooting of the amount and types of data stored and connected devices. In addition to health information, which includes those identifying the person and those relating to his or her state of health (such as PCR tests), it is important to protect R & D information (especially patents, in this case vaccines).

Description OF THE PROBLEMA
The threats faced by the health sector include malware, ransomware, vulnerability in cloud storage, misleading pages, phishing, encryption problems, human errors, among others. An attack not only exposes patients’ personal data but also endangers health infrastructure, making emergency response impossible, but also reduces public confidence in the public health system and as a result has an impact beyond the sector.

Many of these risks have already been identified by ENISA, which has stepped up its work in the area following the pandemic. In this respect, the “Cyber Europe 2020” exercise was dedicated to the health sector but due to the circumstances it has not yet taken place. In the meantime, ENISA has published the report “Cloud security for healthcare services” and the “Hospital Supply Guidelines” and organised a conference on “eHealth Security”.

However, as they are non-binding recommendations not backed by a specific budget, they are significantly less effective. This has been demonstrated by the tracking applications developed by each Member State, which lacked data portability and platform compatibility capabilities. For this reason, especially with regard to the Digital Green Certificate, it is essential to increase both the efficiency and technical security of digital tools and their acceptance by citizens.

Taking into account the issues described above, this working group puts forward a proposal which seeks to solve two of the pressing problems with regard to the “Green Passport” and the handling of health data digitally.

We propose that the European Commission, directly or indirectly through one of its agencies (such as the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) proposal), create a fundamental and common European structure for a digital platform (now known as “Green Passport”). The need to create this unified platform at EU level is urgent to avoid segregation of vaccination control systems and test results (COVID in this case) in different Member States and regions, as was the case for tracking applications in late summer 2020.

We propose that this platform developed by EU bodies should function as a basis for Member States to develop improvements and adapt technological development to the needs of each geography. As the structure will be unique, security development protocols can benefit from a broader and more diverse expert group that will provide greater security and privacy for the users of such systems.

Secondly, we suggest that this development should incorporate a single database compiling the laboratories that are registered with the various national bodies and are empowered to issue results of certain tests (such as the PCR). The aim of this proposal is to ensure that the results issued by test centres are reliable and comply with national regulations (which in turn comply with EU rules). The objectives of this are to: (1) the falsification of information from test results is minimised; (2) increase transparency and inter-laboratory cooperation across the EU; And (3) tools are provided for the correct handling of personal data when issuing health test results (currently mainly COVID-19, but not excluding the inclusion in the future of results of other virus tests such as HPV or HIV).

These proposals have been created in the framework of the Forum x the Future of the European Union, a Team Europe initiative.

Eugen Forascu  • 07 October 2021

Identify common activities in the national institutions of EU countries and implement free/public software to solve those problems. Start small and grow incremental. Corelate statistics with laws/recommendations.

ex 1:
activity: ""Review/Feedback product/service/companies/stores"
target: A police station, A hospital, A company,
All city services: garbage collection, parking, traffic

properties: Feedback description, Issuer, Date, Target, etc

Use case: A EU citizen can fill a public complaint that Hospital X lacks important equipment. This complaint can be supported by multiple patients and automatically triggers a notification.
Statistical correlation: Depending on the nr of supporters the complaint can escalate to Hospital Management, Town Hall, or other interested parties.

Other activities: "Filling a document", "Assigning a task to a person", "Completing a task", "Document workflows", "Creating a company", "Closing a company", "Transferring ownership of a product/company"

Note: This is applicable in all EU countries.

Benefits: Each country can benefit from a cheap software implementation of a particular problem (it's far cheaper than for each country to make it's own software product).
Custom connections can be provided so that each country can customize/contribute to the software.

Implementation detail: Before actual implementation the api interfaces and entities need to be versioned and standardized (see https://schema.org/).

Eugen Forascu  • 07 October 2021

Implement a generalized way to see and encourage the progress of state institutions and facilities.

Problem: When we pick a hotel to stay we can see the number of stars it has. Those stars are given based on predefined criteria's like: what services does it offer, does it have a pool, etc.
How can an EU citizen see the performance of a hospital, police station, town hall, fire department within his country?

Reasoning: if we don't have a value attached to an institution it is very hard to track progress. If progress can't be tracked what is an incentive for a good manager to have an organized institution. How do we know if the institution is going in the right direction?

Solution:
- define evaluation criteria's for each institution profile as an EU recommendation. This is a function based on nr of cases processed, customer satisfaction, operational costs, equipment quality/age, employee satisfaction.
- assign an evaluation number to each institution
- reward the employees if the evaluation number increases
- penalize, offer solutions for significant decreases
- move management/leadership from a 5 star institution to a 2 star one (this should create competition between same type of institutions, police station <-> police station)
- try to keep evaluation cost as small as possible through automation and software

Note: The idea is applicable in all EU countries.

Implementation detail: the evaluation function needs to have a version so it can evolve over time. The requirements to have 5 stars now might change/evolve with time so we can decrease evaluation costs and increase accuracy.

Giulio
 • 07 October 2021
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Hello! My proposal is to give each EU Member State the opportunity, thanks to the European Commission, to set up a multi-language portal for young people and adults, containing clear, up-to-date information on the job opportunities currently available in each region, also mentioning the opportunities for European training and support such as Cosme or Young Entertainment urs or Vulcanus and others according to the professional aspirations of each of the visitors to the portal. Unfortunately, as far as employment policies are concerned, the EU Member States seem to me to be uncoordinated with each other, but a framework programme is needed to give young people in precarious employment and migrants waiting to obtain a certificate of residence or residence with clear speed of information, by reporting public bodies, national and European employment support networks, internships and scholarships, reliable portals in which private citizens from the same region or city offer and seek employment, whether temporary or not.
In short, in my view, a major joint effort would be needed by the institutions of each Member State, volunteers and presidents of not-for-profit bodies to create an excellent website that is supervised and updated by public bodies in order to provide free help by promoting inclusion and trust in the institutions, by removing people from malicious fraudsters and people looking for illegal business that exploits rampant unemployment and inadequate information about the work that unfortunately exists in many institutional offices and sites.
I apologise for the breathing and thank you for a lot of patience! Yours sincerely,

Giulio
(EU Values NGO)

Francisco Javier
 • 08 October 2021
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It is rather afraid to see that Europe is lagging behind in the Cloud Computing world, all leading companies are American, and all solutions used mostly come from there.
Europe should have a decisive policy to encourage strong cloud providers here to have an alternative to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, IBM, etc.

Cristina Maria  • 08 October 2021

Digital transformation starts in school
Prepare the learning approach to
- critical thinking
- having an opinion.

Current system all over europe is based on memorizing facts that will be available to search in an instance. The focus should be rather on making a conclusion based on a set of data and facts rather than memorising.

Myriam  • 08 October 2021

The algorithms of search engines and social media should be disclosed. Everyone should be able to decide for themselves from which bubble, from which category he or she wants to receive content and be able to switch off individual ones.
In this way, the rifts between people should optimally not harden, so that there is more openness. And if the optimal case does not occur, then the developments are at least transparent.

abc  • 08 October 2021

European crypto currency

Condan Nicoleta  • 08 October 2021
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Technology is very demanded in these times and we learn more easily

Condan Nicoleta  • 08 October 2021

Din cauză că tehnologia este foarte solicitată în aceste timpuri, ar trebui să existe internet peste tot. Iar cu tehnologia putem învăța mai ușor.

Cilloni
 • 09 October 2021
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I would like the European Union to be able to become a major hub for technology in different environments, such as green technology such as transport, enabling better travel more respectful of the planet.

Leon Sebastian Barbu  • 10 October 2021

I kindly ask the European Parliament to consider debating a very simple proposal: implementation of working procedures between public institutions, so that any information already in the possession of the State, to be transferred between public institutions when needed, directly through interinstitutional communication methods, without bothering citizens to submit duplicates of various documents.

In Romania, I have already initiated a public campaign on this topic, amassing in excess of 1300+ supporters for such a civic initiative. Direct link, here: https://campaniamea.declic.ro/petitions/legea-antibirocratie-vrem-aprobarea-ei-prin-oug-de-catre-guvern

Aurel  • 12 October 2021
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Given that the SPID (digital identity) and the e-ID card have already been created in Italy, every weekend through a digital referendum decides on the laws to be done in parliament.
In this world, technology will also be for the benefit of the people.

Andrea  • 13 October 2021
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Nobody should be forgotten in the digitalisation process. Many older people have huge difficulties in accessing the internet and consulting smartphones. Digital needs to accompany but not replace analogue altogether otherwise there is a risk that someone will be excluded from exercising their rights. Computerisation must take place first of all in the back-end and thus in the reformulation and redesign of databases, which is therefore very useful and not the ultimate tool of a marketing strategy. Revolutionising all public services with apps in this transition period is dangerous for democracy, rather there is a need to revolutionise the same telematic services

Georgi Monev  • 02 December 2021

Nowadays, most cyberattacks are done by teens that are better at cybersecurity than most graduates in this field, so i suggest these young people be encouraged not to choose the bad side and be given more financial support to contitnue their education.

Natalie  • 08 March 2022

How to prevent fake news through international law and should the people spreading disinformation be punished?

Can fake news be eradicated from the media and internet or is silencing fake news censorship?

How to help people recognise disinformation and therefore help them to be better informed about world events?

Konstantina  • 28 March 2022
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Democracy must be participative and we believe that e-democracy would enable greater accessibility and participation in a decision. This would allow us to have the comfort of voting for EU citizens or their opinion on a serious issue on a number of serious issues. This would build a more resilient democracy which requires very good legislation, i.e. a framework to avoid arbitrariness and preserve democratic values.

Katarina Bene  • 16 May 2022

Teachers need to be trained in the responsible use of social network classes in cybersecurity so there can be a class in school to teach the children from early on how to behave correctly in the internet.

Andrea B  • 17 May 2022
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Nowadays, technology is still somewhat unknown or unsafe for anyone to use it (excluding experts), so I believe it is necessary to update our system through some changes. (
1) simpler and more accessible courses could also be created for older people, where they speak, the risks that can be encountered online and how these technologies should be used effectively.
(2) an agreement should be created by the institutions with large technology multinationals to provide technological material and to develop anti-malware programmes in order to protect personal and cyber safety and the various digital identities of citizens.
(3) with regard to the accessibility of the network, small decentralised and autonomous network units could be created, which are managed directly by the same citizen (such as a green power generator), in which the individual can adjust the breakdown independently and only in exceptional cases would external technical assistance be provided by the various companies which are sold at low cost or at lower prices.
(4) with regard to IT security, a new institution called the ‘Ministry of Technology, Information and Security’ should be created, which has full regulatory power in technological matters, websites, social networks, etc., so that citizens have a fixed point of reference for any problem.
5) in order to avoid fake News, a set of rules and laws should be created to regulate, in common agreement with social media, the flow of information, including stricter criteria than those of today. This also sets out the various penalties which the offender has to face.
(6) with regard to social offences, rules should be laid down in which the person who creates this state of hatred is directly and effectively traced by the competent police or ministry.
This would also prevent cyberbullying, as the bulley would be directly linked to the punishment that he had executed.
(7) to make this world more accessible, simple and more practical institutional websites should be created and developed, grouped together in a single official website so that citizens know where they need it.
If we change all this, we could also make the digital world democratic, as everyone would be able to understand and access this world, but above all everyone could express their own ideas; in addition, this could be useful for future elections, i.e.: the citizen can vote in any part he/she is

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