Hi Petri!

Thanks for your interest! Good to hear that you welcome our proposal and you are so responsive! It is crucial for the success of a digital transition according to our values to have everyone on board. We consider  this proposal to be a strategic one also for bridging digital divide and give all European citizens, wherever they are, the opportunity to leverage the potential of the digital transition. Therefore is very important the voice and the initiative of the regional and local administrations. Moreover the approached followed by the Digital decade (setting targets and processes to reach them) can also be implemented at regional level.

As you may know once the Policy Program will be issued, the Commission will adopt guidelines for Member States to develop their strategic national roadmaps and to translate the Union trajectories at national level.

We foresee the participation of all stakeholder, even institutional ones, along all the process. This will include the consultation at the different administrative level.

On our side, we will explore the possibility to organize a webinars with cities and regions in the next months.

Please have a look in the meantime to our Staff Working Document accompanying the proposal, and feel free to contact us, and do not hesitate to share your experience when developing your own initiative.

Stay tuned!!