Connectivity Driving Digital Inclusion Across Borders

• Levels of connectivity and digital inclusion across the Nordic and Baltic countries, primary challenges the region faces in connectivity with the goal of achieving comprehensive digital inclusion.
• Emerging technologies that hold the most promise for enhancing connectivity for digital inclusion in the region, how advanced technologies are being deployed to improve access to digital services.
• Cross-border collaboration considerations – striving to enable digital inclusion, what can we do to not have siloed solutions within the borders of countries/municipalities?
• The business case for investing in connectivity technologies aimed at promoting digital inclusion, how the private sector can be incentivized to develop and deploy connectivity solutions that support digital inclusion.

Speakers:

Normunds Egle, Senior Manager for Infrastructure Policy & Member State Outreach, DIGITALEUROPE

Oliver Lekk, Head of Mobile Network Department, Telia Estonia

Teppo Rantanen, Executive Director, Competitiveness and Innovation, City of Tampere

Elind Sulmina, Digital Infrastructure Officer, International Telecommunication Union

Dan-Mihai Chirilă, Policy Officer, European Commission