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WHO RUN THE WORLD? RISE
Rise, the UK advocate group for gender diversity in the broadcast technology sector, is launching in North America and APAC. Serena Harris, who has over two decades of experience in the M&E industry and worked with Avid and Marquis, will be running Rise North America. “What Rise is doing for women in the industry is extraordinary and I want to open those same opportunities to women here,” she said. “I am very much looking forward to building on the momentum of Rise’s success to help
Rise APAC. Diaz Curiel, who is based in Singapore and has over ten years of experience in the broadcast industry, will also be launching a Rise mentoring scheme in the region. “I am a strong believer in gender equality and an active participant in several mentoring initiatives in the APAC region to highlight and drive the success of the women in our industry.” In addition to the global expansion of Rise, it has also appointed four new board members as it seeks to increase its important work throughout the M&E sector. will “keep the EU at the forefront of the data-agile economy, while respecting and promoting the values that are the foundation of European societies.” Based on the existing EU frameworks on personal data protection, open data, consumer protection and competition rules, the strategy seeks to foster a legislative data approach that will contribute to “realising its potential in the data economy,” covering data governance, access and reuse. Discussions on how to govern platforms and their role in propagating hateful or harmful content have increased in Europe over recent years. The report states, “some platforms have acquired significant scale, which effectively allows them to act as private gatekeepers to markets, customers and information. We must ensure that the systemic role of certain online platforms and the market power they acquire will not put in danger the fairness and openness of our markets.” Finally, according to the Commission, “digital technologies are a critical enabler for the Green Deal, the EU’s new growth strategy, to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050.” It also states that digital can advance the circular economy, support the decarbonisation of all sectors and reduce the environmental and social footprint of products placed on the EU market. It’s worth noting that this inclusion of environmental sustainability in its plans sets a good precedent for digital policy discussions worldwide.
even more women realise their potential and growth within our industry.” Nancy Diaz Curiel will be running
EUROPEAN UNION OFFERS HOPE FOR DIGITAL FUTURE
The European Commission has launched a blizzard of proposals and policy papers under the general umbrella of ‘shaping Europe’s digital future’. Over the next five years, the Commission will focus on three key agendas: technology that works for people; a fair and competitive economy; and an open, democratic and sustainable society. We’ve highlighted some of the interesting areas covered in these agendas below. The commission defines connectivity as the “building block of digital transformation” and its report focuses on the need to invest in infrastructure and to scale interoperability with 5G and future 6G networks for digital growth. On cybersecurity, the Commission points out that digital transformation has to start from EU citizens and businesses trusting that their applications are secure, and announces plans to develop cybersecurity for the bloc in the future. In this respect, it has also released a separate white paper on its deployment of AI, covering safety, liability, fundamental rights and data. The white paper proposes a “balanced approach, based on excellence and trust” and addresses the benefits of
AI as well as the risks associated with the lack of transparency, gender-based and other kinds of discrimination, as well as the intrusion of privacy. It states that future regulation will focus on the so-called “high-risk” AI systems, which are AI that interferes with human rights, such as biometric identification and other surveillance technologies. These systems have to be tested and certified before they reach the EU single market and their use should be “duly justified, proportionate and subject to adequate safeguards.” On data, the Commission has developed a data strategy for the next five years which includes measures that
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