[digital.global] in dialogue

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GSMA #MWC23 – Meet us!

Again this year, GSMA is hosted its flagship event GSMA Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2023. This is the largest and most influential event for the digital connectivity ecosystem. GSMA is a key partner in the BMZ’s Make-IT Alliance and an important collaboration partner with their Mobile for Development program.

We were there to exchange ideas with people who share the BMZ’s mission. We want to use digitization to contribute to better livelihoods and sustainable management of the planet. Together with our partners, we close digital gaps and deliver inclusive, fair and green digital solutions to expand digital participation in our partner countries and strengthen their digital sovereignty – for a just social-ecological digital transformation worldwide.

At #MWC23, we hosted GIZ side events to collaborate on how we can join forces:

Sharing Data for Development
When: 10-11 CET on Wednesday March 01
Where: Hall 8.1 Room CC8.4

• Data has become a key resource for economic development and its importance only continues to grow. Even though all actors in the digital ecosystem agree on this, there is still need to better understand how value from data is created and how the benefits of data can be shared. Join us in a discussion about the benefits and challenges of using data to cooperate with government on development challenges. We will explore strategies of sharing data to promote innovation, competition and productivity, as well as look into the barriers that hinder such cooperation. Discussion will build on approaches for using mobile data for women’s economic empowerment as well as data sharing and user-facing applications for informing public sector decisions.

Opportunities for an Inclusive, Fair and Gender-Equal Digital Economy
When: 11-12 CET on Wednesday March 01
Where: Hall 8.1 Room CC8.4

• This group discussion took place to discuss the current state of gender equality in the digital economy and specifically in the gig economy. We discussed the challenges and opportunities to reach groups traditionally excluded from the labor market and thus promote more inclusion and distribution of opportunities.

Scale Your Capacity Building for Free with GIZ’s e-Learning Platform atingi!
When: 12-13 CET on Wednesday March 01
Where: Hall 8.1 Room CC8.4

• On March 01, the GDPR-compliant, multilingual learning management system atingi was launched at #MWC23. All public, non-profit and private organizations can use atingi 100% free of charge to create and upload free courses for learners aged 16+ residing in the Global South. Organizations can also access and customize our rapidly growing library of more than 400 existing, openly licensed public courses – ranging from topics like agriculture to AI, digital skills, entrepreneurship, tourism and more. atingi works on desktops, tablets and smartphones and includes offline capabilities.

Visit the partner section on atingi.org for more information.

On the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2023, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and Bitkom e. V. invited to the joint conference. The event focused on the following questions : What role do data power and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) play in participation/discrimination? What changes do current regulatory proposals bring? To what extent can trustworthy AI help mitigate discrimination risks for consumers, and can the use of Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) help digital companies actively think about consumer interests from the outset when developing and deploying new technologies?

The Corporate Digital Responsibility Summit highlights sustainable IT solutions to save Co2 emissions. It is the leading forum in the German-speaking region that empowers companies and brands to reduce the impact of technology on climate and environment and to achieve corporate goals.

Experts* in sustainability & IT and selected companies presented solutions at the CDR Summit on how the digital transformation of business can succeed in a climate-friendly way.

The hybrid concept enabled participation on January 26, 2023 at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe or digitally.

Programm

Digitization is one of the German government’s priorities. The Digital Summit is the central platform for shaping the digital awakening with all those involved. The aim is to accelerate and deepen digitization and harness its potential for prosperity, freedom, social participation and sustainability.

Last year, the focus was on the data economy. The Digital Summit 2022 took a look behind the scenes of digitization and focused on the essential resource of the digital transformation: data.

In its national digital strategy, the German government has decided to present a strategy for an international digital policy for the first time.

For Germany and the EU, the implementation of a socio-ecological-feminist transformation of global economic systems toward resilient structures, which is essential in the global competition of systems in view of the turn of the millennium, can only succeed if we continue to support our partners in the Global South in their efforts to sustainably transform themselves digitally in the fight against hunger/poverty, pandemics, climate change and discrimination against women.

Minister Svenja Schulze therefore invited a broad network of international partners from the digital scene and ICT industry to the kick-off event for the strategic realignment of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (BMZ) digital policy.

Around 240 selected representatives from the digital scene, ICT sector, science, civil society and politics attended the event as an audience. In addition, a large circle of all relevant BMZ networks (Make IT Alliance, GIZ Business Forum, digilab, Strategic Partnership Technology Africa SPTA, participants of the transformation forums incl. DOs, NGOs, departments, etc.) participated virtually.

After the actual event and the launch of the network, the participants got to talk with the BMZ, the keynote speakers and the other participants about the digital reorientation of the BMZ in the context of four Open Spaces on the leadership priorities (Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences, poverty and hunger, Just Transition and feminist development policy).

Program:

2:00 p.m. – Launch of the new network [digital.global] with Federal Minister Svenja Schulze, presentation of first initiatives.

5:15 p.m. – Followed by exclusive dialogue and networking event for invited participants