OECD organizes in 2022 the Digital Economy Conference in Spain

The OECD will organize in 2022 in Spain the Ministerial Conference of the Digital Economy Policy Committee, where the focus will be on access and reuse of data, digital security, protection of minors in the digital world or connectivity, among other aspects.

The event, which will bring together ministers and presidents of the 38 OECD countries, will take place from December 13 to 16, 2002 in the Canary Islands (Atlantic), confirmed this Thursday the Spanish executive and the Canary Islands regional government.

The Canary Islands will become the center of the debate on the digital economy of the future and the roadmap in this regard for the next four years will be established, said the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, Carme Artigas.

The Conference will take place after the previous one took place in Mexico in 2016.

It will be the first time that this meeting takes place in Europe and will attract thousands of experts in digitization, as well as public representatives from the United States, Germany or Canada, countries that are part of the OECD.

The regional president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, did not specify on which island of the archipelago the event will take place, since they will analyze which one has the best conditions for it.

Torres stressed that the Canary Islands Special Zone (ZEC) allows digital nomads to carry out their work on the islands, while advocating for the tourism sector to be updated in the digital world.

Spain wants to promote in this next meeting an international reflection not only on the new challenges of application and interpretation of the right to the new digital reality, but also on the new pioneering rights that must be demanded, such as those related to artificial intelligence or to the neurotechnologies, as stated in a statement today.

The Ministerial Conferences on Digital Economy do not have an assigned periodicity, and so far only three have been organized: in 2016 in Cancun (Mexico), in 2008 in Seoul (South Korea) and in 1998 in Ottawa (Canada).

The Digital Economy Policy Committee is a specialized formation within the OECD that has the mandate to develop evidence-based policies to stimulate the growth of an accessible, innovative, open, inclusive, reliable as well as sustainable digital economy and to promote social well-being. .

The Committee produces non-binding reports and recommendations that help coordinate and support national initiatives on digital transformation. The latest OECD Recommendation adopted by this Committee is on data access and sharing.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), based in Paris, is an international organization that promotes policies to improve the economic and social well-being of the world’s inhabitants.