OECD ministerial meeting discusses digital environment

Usage of digital transformation for sustainable development was one of the main themes discussed at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris on Wednesday. Slovakia is currently presiding the OECD and the Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, who attended the meeting, stated that modern technologies are the future, but they must serve people. According to Pellegrini, people must also prepare for the fact that wealth will be ever more often created in the virtual world, yet they should not become slaves to technology. OECD Secretary-General Jose Angel Gurria holds a similar opinion. "The challenge resides in the use of technologies for improving people's quality of life," he said, adding that it concerns, for example, education, health care and taxes. Calling data in the 21^st century the successor of oil as the key material of the preceding century, Slovakia's Deputy Prime Minister for Investment and Informatisation Richard Raši alerted to the need for data protection in an environment of potentially "easy misuse" of people's personal, economic and health information. To tackle this, Raši stated at the meeting that Slovakia had launched a national cyber-security project.