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The digital economy is an area with untappedpotential for both the European Union and Ukraine. Digital technologies, services and systems are of vital importance for social development and can create growth and jobs in all areas of economy from the smallest, most traditional manufacturer to newly-emerging hi-tech industries.

Take, for instance, digitisation of industry and the way this will reshape the way we live, work and do business. In the next few years, we will see millions of interconnected devices and almost half of the mobile transactions facilitated by people’s phones. Soon, the fastest-growing companies will use smart machines to increase their efficiency and productivity and reduce costs. Traditional sectors of the economy, as well as public administration, will benefit a lot from analytical services based on big and open data. It is in the clear interest of the EU and Ukraine to cooperate closely in the digital matters for the benefit of our economies and societies.

One of the top priorities of the European Commission is to remove regulatory and other kinds of barriers to make the Digital Single Market (DSM) a reality in the coming years. Doing so could contribute €415 billion per year to the €14 trillion

These benefits must not stop at EU borders. A total of 43 million Ukrainian consumers should also enjoy the potential of the DSM to bring economic growth, generate more jobs, improve people’s lives and help businesses. For Ukraine, this would mean a more stable political environment and significant progress towards social and economic modernisation.

We are inspired by the success of the Energy Community - our joint initiative which has extended the EU’s internal energy market to south-eastern Europe and beyond. We should develop a similar common vision for the digital economy in the creation of Digital Community. The adaptation of Ukrainian law to key EU provisions in the digital area would stimulate the Ukrainian economy and allow for an integration of Ukraine into the DSM in the future.

With its highly qualified human capital, Ukraine holds a prominent position in the ICT field in central and eastern Europe. Furthermore, Ukraine has great potential not only to become a software hub for Europe, but an export country of digital products and services.

Extending the benefits of DSM beyond EU borders could apply to a variety of topics. We could work together on eCommerce, eCustoms, eHealth, paperless trade, and rules and infrastructure for electronic communications (including spectrum coordination and broad-band deployment).

We could also cooperate on network and information security and cybersecurity, electronic identification and trust services, digital skills and promoting innovation, e-government and open data, to mention just a few possibilities.

These topics are already part of our ongoing discussions, and we could investigate how to include further topics like data protection, international roaming and infrastructure extension within Ukraine and between Ukraine and the EU, and industry digitisation into our cooperation.

Ukraine has already confirmed its readiness and commitment to cooperate with the EU and EU’s neighbours in this area, by endorsing the June 2015 declaration of the First Eastern Partnership Ministerial Meeting on Digital Economy.

We are both convinced that the time is ripe to develop a common vision of a Digital Community between the EU and Ukraine, and bringing in other neighbouring countries.

We look forward to continue the discussion with stakeholders at the end of July in Kyiv and then with representatives of the EU’s neighbours in a high-level meeting that the European Commission will organise in early autumn in Brussels.

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Autor(en)/Author(s): Volodymyr Groysman and Günther Oettinger

Quelle/Source: Times of Malta, 22.07.2016

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