Green Digital Diplomacy - Time for the EU to lead
Data has become an essential resource for economic growth, job creation and societal progress and will reshape the way people produce, consume and live. To be responsible digital players, states need to address the environmental cost of using digital services that rely on huge volumes of data to promote green solutions as part of their international digital engagement strategies. In their article for the
EU Institute for Security Studies, Patryk Pawlak and Fabio Barbero suggest that for the EU’s foreign policy, this means embracing
green digital diplomacy as a priority. They explain how such an approach would bring digital and climate policies - two of the EU’s priorities - under the same roof and contribute to balancing the flow and wide use of data, while preserving high privacy, security, safety, and ethical standards in three specific areas: green data coalitions, shared responsibility and green
digital by design..
https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/Brief_18_2021_0.pdf
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