Digital transformation is an important driver of sustainable development and offers great potential to amplify social and economic benefits across a large number of sectors. However, current rates of digitalisation are very unequal: more than 3 billion people are not digitally connected, including many women. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals, digitalisation can foster better education, reduce inequalities, boost economic growth, research and innovation and support better governance.
A more digitalised society requires the promotion of sustainability and the building of a global, open, stable and secure cyberspace, grounded in the rule of law, human rights and democratic values that leaves no-one behind. Today, the digital transformation is driven largely by data and is a key factor for global competitiveness, with great potential for generating economic growth and development and innovative solutions.
Digital transformation is bringing fast change that affects our labour markets. With the Communications on Shaping Europe’s digital future and the 2030 Digital Compass Decade, the EU has put forward a human-centric approach to digital transformation.
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The rollout of the project across the island will provide Jamaica with wide broadband access. Jamaica’s digital plan includes addressing the digital divide with rural areas, facilitating access to education and also technological innovation for the private sector.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
This initiative is part of the Sustainable Connectivity Regional Team Europe Initiative. It aims to scale up service provision from the Copernicus mirror site to all ASEAN countries to provide high-speed internet capacity.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
Electrification and digitalisation of social infrastructure in remote rural areas with a focus on 2,000 remote schools, and expansion of households' access to digital infrastructure in poorer areas to reduce the digital divide and inequalities.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
The EU-AU Data Flagship will support the development of Green Data Centres, with the aim to support Africa in building a data economy and foresting its data sovereignty through secure data storage and processing capacities.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
Facilitate investments and partnerships for more than 100 EU-LAC joint ventures, focusing on the digital transformation with a human rights and gender perspective, bridging gender gaps, promoting women's participation, and creating solutions for gender equity or women and girls' specific needs.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
The EU-LAC Digital Alliance creates a strategic framework to foster substantial bi-regional cooperation across the full spectrum of digital and space issues.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
Support Nigeria's digitalisation with infrastructure upgrades, public service digitisation, tech start-up support, digital skills training (focusing on youth and women), and robust digital governance for privacy and cybersecurity.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
The EurAfrica Gateway cable connecting the EU with Africa along the Atlantic Ocean coast, will foster the digital sovereignty of the two continents by ensuring the highest infrastructure and cyber security standards increasing inter-continental data flows development.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
Expansion of fiber optic backbone in underserved areas, installation of 850 solar cell phone towers in rural areas, connection to Atlantic data cable, digitalisation of cybersecurity and Post/Telecom, and creation of a farmer portal, reducing the digital divide and inequalities.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
Modernisation of the fiber optic network, focusing on trust, high capacity, and resilience, connecting major cities and extending resilient regional links across Southeast Africa.
- Global Gateway - areas of partnership
- Digital
