From 10.30 this morning, Fundación Alternativas is organising a debate on Europe and strategic digital autonomy to find out how to be at the forefront of the profound “technological change” that is taking place in the 21st century in the main countries of the planet.
In the November 2016 Security and Defence Implementation Plan, strategic autonomy is defined as “the ability to act and cooperate with international and regional partners whenever possible, while operating autonomously when and where necessary”. The extension of the concept of strategic autonomy to other areas (industrial or health) has to do with the obvious shortcomings of Covid-19.
In this event, the Fundación Alternativas proposes Europe’s duty to promote this line if it wants to be strategically autonomous, and to be at the forefront of the profound technological change that is taking place in the 21st century in the main countries – allied or not – of the planet.
Moderated by Diego López Garrido, Executive Vice-President of the Fundación Alternativas and author of the document Europe’s Open Strategic Autonomy. Geopolitics and Geostrategy in the 21st Century, the round table debate will feature the participation of Andrés Pedreño, Professor of Applied Economics and co-author of the document Open digital strategic autonomy. A proposal in terms of efficiency, transparency and vanguard and Gonzalo León, professor emeritus at the UPM and author of the document Open Digital Strategic Autonomy of the EU.
The event will take place at the headquarters of Fundación Alternativas (calle Don Ramón de la Cruz, 39 – 1º izq.). To attend the event in person, please register here. To follow the event online, click here.
