Digital infrastructures, skills and technologies are imperative for working, learning, entertaining, socialising, shopping and accessing everything from health services to culture. It is by building and deploying technological capabilities in a way that empowers people and businesses that Europe will address digital divides and will become digitally sovereign in an interconnected world. 

In this context, the European Commission, Parliament and Council decided to establish, for the very first time, a human-centred digital strategy: the Digital Decade.  

In March 2021, the European Commission presented a vision and avenues for Europe’s digital transformation by 2030 around four cardinal points: digital skills, digital infrastructures, digital businesses and digital public services. In September 2021, the Commission proposed a Decision establishing the Digital Policy Programme. It was adopted on 14th December 2022, and entered into force on 9th January 2023. 

Agreeing to establish the Digital Decade policy programme 2030, the three institutions endorsed common values-based objectives and concrete targets for Europe’s digital transformation, with a robust governance mechanism and a set of tools to accelerate and deepen Multi-Country projects.  

Closely linked to the policy programme, the Declaration on the Digital Decade rights and principles was signed on 15th December, which presents a comprehensive set of rights and principles that Member States and the EU will implement jointly to ensure the Union’s digital transformation respects a values-based framework. 

The present webinar aims to present the Digital Decade Policy Programme (DDPP) to the broad public shortly after its entry into force, mainly to showcase its importance for various actors and at various levels.  

The webinar will be divided into two parts:  

The first part will shortly focus on the background framework of the DDPP and will touch on: 

• The policy context of the DDPP  

• The objectives and targets 

• The governance mechanism  

• The scope 

The second part will zoom on the implementation of the programme. It will and focus on its importance for various actors and at various levels. For this, it will display a: 

• Member States perspective 

• Digital Investor perspective 

• Local perspective 

AGENDA:

General Introduction  

10:00 – 10:05 – Short video on the Digital Decade Policy Programme (DDPP) & Introduction – Ms. Lavinia Bianchi, Communication Officer, DG CONNECT 

10:05 - 10:25 – Keynote Speech – Ms. Renate Nikolay, Deputy Director-General, DG CONNECT 

10:25 – 10:45 - Keynote Speech – Ms. Martina Dlabajová, Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur on the Digital Decade Policy Programme

Panel discussion 

10:45 – 11:30 – Moderated by Ms. Lavinia Bianchi, Communication Officer, DG CONNECT 

Speakers: 

• Ms. Renate Nikolay, Deputy Director-General, DG CONNECT 

• Ms. Martina Dlabajová, Member of the European Parliament  

• Ms. Laura Eiro, Director General of Data Department (Ministry of Transport and Communication of Finland) - Member State perspective 

• Ms. Alice Albizzati, Founding Partner of Revaia – Digital Investor perspective 

• Ms. Federica Bordelot, Head of digital transformation at Eurocities – Local perspective

11:30 – 11:40 – Q&A – Moderated by Ms. Lavinia BIANCHI, Communication Officer, DG CONNECT  

Conclusion 

11:40 - 12:00 – Conclusion & ways forward – Ms. Renate Nikolay, Deputy Director-General, DG CONNECT