Digitalization and the AU-EU dialogue
Webinar (by invitation)
Karim El Aynaoui, President of the Policy Center for the New South, will intervene in a virtual discussion organized jointly by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), the German Development Institute (DIE) and the European Center for Development Policy and Management (ECDPM) under the theme “Digitalization and the AU-EU Dialogue”.
This virtual meeting, set to take place on Thursday, May 28 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. GMT, will inform a policy brief for senior EU and AU officials ahead of the next EU-AU Summit, currently scheduled for October 2020.
As background, the European Commission has set out its ambitions for a comprehensive and innovative partnership between Africa and the EU under the name “New Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investments and Jobs”. Together, the AU and the EU have established a Digital Economy Task Force, which published its final report in June 2019. The policy brief on digitalization will provide evidence-based insights and will aim to highlight areas of opportunities, common objectives and mutual interests, as well as potential for collaborations between the AU and EU on digitalization. It will outline a set of policy recommendations leading up to the EU-AU summit in 2020.
The webinar will take place on May 28th, 02:00 PM GMT.
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