Antonio Hernando, Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, has considered “absolutely necessary” to favor the consolidation of the telecommunications sector so that companies “can continue to make the large investments” demanded by the European digital society. In their opinion, Spanish and European players are handled “in a global framework of competition”, which forces us to “dimension the actors we want to have.” Then Hernando has been in favor of the recommendations of the Draghi report, in favor of promoting bureaucratic simplification. “We must encourage competition, but without erroneous interpretations, with competition policies that can harm Spain or Europe.”
In his speech at the Telefónica space, within the framework of the Police Day Telefónica, The Government representative has also called for “dialogue to exhaustion”, in order to achieve useful public policies for the general interest, with proposals that contribute to improve the lives of citizens and achieve the greatest possible social welfare. “And now talk about dialogue spaces between experts, legislators and industry, it is important, at a time when monologues are taken.”
In the same forum, Hernando has paraphrased the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who in the presentation of the Digital Rights Observatory He urged “not to accept as digital what we would never allow in the real world, because what happens in the digital world, through the digital infrastructure that we have built among all, with immense effort and investment by the communities, has Effect on real life and communities behaviors. “
The Secretary of State was also in favor to design digital public policies that serve the general interest and not to the exclusive interests of a very small group of companies. “It is, neither more nor less, to do technological and digital policies with a humanistic sense, respectful of the great values contained and following the great continental constitutions. Therefore, we cannot break the policies of ethics, we cannot do policies that do not favor human progress. ”
In this way, Hernando considered that the fact that “policies sank their roots in ethics begins to be so revolutionary in this 2025, as asking for respect to the United Nations Charter or the principles of international law.” That way, not following those steps would be “a historical suicide.” Given this challenge, the Secretary of State for Telecommunications has proposed “to develop policies that promote competitiveness and improve the autonomy of Spain.”
Antonio Hernando: We have to design technological and digital policies with a humanistic sense, respectful of the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “
For its part, Pablo de Carvajal, general secretary of Telefónica, He pointed out that Europe is in a very complicated geostrategic situation, “a region with many strengths but that is being left behind with the US and China. In that environment, Carvajal recalled that” Telefónica has witnessed many changes in its 100 Years of history, reinventing each day, from the company from La Voz to another of data “, with the ambition to” build in a digital, competitive, sustainable, inclusive and leader in the digital sector. ”
In turn, Ignacio Cirac, director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, He has warned of the possibility that, in five or ten years, there will be quantum computers that will neither be in Europe nor in the United States, but in China. Therefore, “if we do not promote collaboration and cooperation with China, we will be far from the development of the Asian country’s ability to develop” new drugs or visit other planets, but that must be taken into account now and not in five or ten Years. “Among other unveiled data, Cirac has indicated that Spain It invests one billion euros in different quantum computing developments, compared to 20,000 million euros in China.
Anthony Gooch, general secretary of the European Round Table (ERT) He pointed out that, once Europe has been displaced from the artificial intelligence career, the old continent is still in time to assume some leadership in quantum and supercomputing computing.
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