The Digital Agenda seeks to address obstacles to Europe's digital supremacy: countries' different capabilities, cyber crime, lack of ICT skills...

Europe goes digital

https://api.multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/documents/20125/11980413/v007-0020-en.srt

The European single digital agenda:  the new driver for Europe’s economy,

powering up technology  to empower people and business.

We use billions of devices  to stay connected.

In the next decade  it could reach a trillion.

But how is the digital agenda  set to take Europe to infinity and beyond?

It’s the centrepiece  of the EU 2020 strategy,

better online security  and better support of online innovation.

But with 28 Member States  needing to get on an equal footing,

Ever found yourself  suddenly without signal?

The infrastructure just  isn’t in place across the EU.

Also we may shop online,  but how many of us

actually buy goods  outside of our home countries?

110 million Europeans  have never used the internet,

246 million people,  nearly 50% of the population,

And by 2020, 900,000 jobs in the IT sector  could remain unfilled,

because people don’t have the right skills.

The digital agenda is expected to  increase EU GDP by 5%

and same for charges  for digital goods and services.

Right now we have  very few hubs in the EU.

How about if we had more  online journalism portals like:

Better infrastructure. But is  the funding allocation enough?

Spain alone spent 150 billion euros  on new fibre optic cables.

That same amount has been earmarked  for Europe-wide infrastructure.

Beefed-up cyber security, keeping away  cyber criminals and snoops.

But everyone has to get involved.  It’s all about evolution.

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