This report contains a set of extended abstracts presented at the workshop "Digital Transformation, Data and AI in the Western Balkans", that was held between 9 and 11 December 2021 in Skopje, North Macedonia. The workshop aim was to discuss Europe's ambition to become the world-leading region for developing and deploying cutting edge, ethical and secure AI, data and digital transformation services and to promote a human-centric approach in the global context. It concluded that this agenda is also important for the Western Balkan (WB) region, which can, in turn, adopt and benefit from these emerging technologies.
The workshop hosted 102 participants from 12 countries including EU Member States: Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia and Italy; candidate and potential candidate countries Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo (This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence), North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey; European neighbourhood policy countries associated to Horizon 2020: Moldova and Ukraine. During the three workshop days, participants discussed the state of play of digital transformation in the respective countries, the implementation of AI in education, society, public services, business, exchanged good practices, established partnerships, and ultimately learned from each other.
DELIPETREV Blagoj;
CHUKALIEV Ordan;
IDRIZI Bashkim;
2022-06-21
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC129903
978-92-76-53599-7 (online),
OP KJ-08-22-190-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC129903,
10.2760/863985 (online),
