What is the outlook for Europe's digital future?
summary
Europe aims to move from middling ranks to the top by scaling concrete actions: a mobile government app and national platforms for services, a 43,000-person hackathon producing 27–28k active contributors and funded follow-ups, and pushes for coding in schools and lifelong learning. Benchmarks: IMD digital competitiveness puts Switzerland #5, Germany #17, Austria #20; IP rights rank CH #2, DE #3, AT #10. Other specifics: 44,500 new Swiss companies, ~2 billion CHF venture funding, and plans for an AI data infrastructure — immigration quotas and startup funding breadth remain bottlenecks.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 2:35How Do You Define Digitalization
- 8:12How Do You Define Digitalization on a National Level
- 17:53What Is Your Vision and Your Personal Goal for Europe's Digital Future
- 19:53Digital Day
- 50:46Human Capital
- 51:10How Do You Plan To Staff the Thousands of Open It Jobs That Have Not Been Filled
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