The tenor of the statements at a press conference yesterday was that data protection is valued so highly in Europe that the 95 percent of non-personal data that exists is hardly used. For example, South Korea has so far prevented general lockdowns through extremely fast contact tracing and “rapid monitoring has prevented such bad coercive measures and restrictions on fundamental rights as lockdowns and the locking up of people,” said WKO boss Harald Mahrer. “Europe slipped coldly.”
The goal is to make Austria one of the top 3 digitization pioneers in Europe by 2030, according to the Managing Director of the Federation of Industry, Christoph Neumayr. Opportunities should be used, but personal rights should not be violated.
The focus of the initiative is on successful transformation projects in Austrian companies and organizations. The presentation of these projects should make the opportunities of the digital transformation tangible and encourage other actors to take the step towards digitization. More than 100 Austrian companies have already joined, said Microsoft Austria boss Hermann Erlach.
Source: Nachrichten
