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But he also detected that the technology exists: what is now needed is "the political commitment and the necessary investment for the infrastructure and to train the skills to use the Internet." An investment that one of the initiatives of the World Wide Web Foundation estimates at around 430 billion dollars. Far from being a crazy figure, Berners-Lee exemplified that this amount is what human beings spend on buying soft drinks per year. "The World Wide Web was born in Europe and the European Union has played an essential role in promoting it and ensuring that civil rights are included in it. To continue playing that key role, I urge European parliamentarians to be ambitious, inclusive and collaborative, putting technological policy on the agenda for the coming decades".
"After the invention of the printing press came dark centuries" The president of the European Commission and the digital activist Simona Levi also spoke at the event. Von der Leyen thanked Tim Berners-Lee for his participation and agreed that the network should remain "open and free." "In the European Union we are proud of our model of society, we Middle East Phone Number List want to preserve it and stay connected ." The appearance of the European president pivoted at all times on some of the initiatives on which the Union is already working. She recognized the need to defend "digital sovereignty" and reduce dependence on technology from third countries. Thus, Von der Leyen announced the creation of spaces for European citizen data, pages in which citizens will be able to choose what information they share with the pages they visit or with the services they use.
A new digital identity that ensures trust and protects users." The new Telecommunications Law that maintains the decree by which the Government can intervene on the Internet for reasons of "public order" is flooded with amendments "Users should not be forced to share their personal data . Visiting a travel site does not require anyone to know if you are married or not, or if you have cats or dogs." "In these spaces, citizens will be able to individually design what data they share, with whom and for what, and under what conditions." Simona Levi agreed with Berners-Lee that the era of digitalization cannot be interpreted solely in terms of technology, and went one step further, raising the need for citizen co-responsibility and opening the door for technology to allow citizens be participants in the policies that govern them constantly, and not only through electoral processes every 4 or 5 years.