Delegates from almost 40 countries will meet on December 14 and 15 in Maspalomas (Gran Canaria), in a Ministerial Conference convened by the OECD to discuss how to make the growing digital transformation of their economies safer and what should be the access of governments to personal data that companies are accumulating.
The OECD Ministerial Conference on Digital Economy, which meets for the first time in Europe, will be inaugurated on the 14th by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez; the Secretary General of the OECD, Mathias Cormann; the Minister of Industry and Technology of Turkey, Mustafa Varank; and the President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres.
Government representatives from the different states that make up the OECD and Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, Peru, Dominican Republic, Romania and Ukraine are expected to participate in it, as well as executives from large technology companies and civil society organizations.
As the OECD itself has advanced, its member states will present four new recommendations on digital security, aimed at helping governments combat cyberattacks and build safer digital societies.
The ministerial meeting will also analyze new reports on data governance for growth and well-being and will issue a "Declaration on government access to personal data held by private sector entities", which will serve as a basis for fostering trust in cross-border data flows, details the multilateral organization.
Data governance for economic growth and security
In the first of them, the Vice President of the Government of Spain and Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, will discuss with the Deputy Secretary General of the OECD, Ulrik Vestergaard; the Secretary of State for Digital Policies of Norway, Gunn Karin Gjul; and the Executive Vice President and Data Director of Mastercard, JoAnn Stonier, on how to advance "Towards a human-centered digital transformation and oriented to rights".
The second table will discuss the conclusions of the working group on "Data Governance for Growth and Well-being" with speakers such as the Secretary of State of the Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport of Germany, Stefan Scnnorr; the President and CEO of NEC Corporation, Takayuki Morita; and the Executive Director of the World Privacy Forum, Pam Dixom.
In the third, the OECD recommendations on digital security will be analyzed, with the intervention of the director of the National Digital Agency of Israel, Shira Lev-Ami; the general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa of IBM, Ana-Paula Assis; the ambassador of the Office of Cyberspace and Digital Policy of the United States, Nathaniel Fick; and the Vice Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil.
Finally, the Secretary General of the OECD, Mathias Cormann, and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom, Paul Scully, will present the "Declaration on government access to personal data held by private sector entities".
On Thursday 15, the meetings between the attendees will continue, in the morning behind closed doors, to conclude in the afternoon with a public session and a press conference to present the conclusions by the Deputy Secretary General of the OECD, Ulrik Vestergaard.
