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Certainly not. Policy development is designed to involve all the relevant stakeholders, as well as the wider community, in shaping policy that reflects the group’s/community’s identity and values. The more complex a policy problem is, the greater the need to bring diversity of knowledge and expertise in order to improve the quality of policy development. All stakeholders must also be given an equal opportunity to contribute their first hands-on experience and resources to the stages of formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies and their courses of action. With this understanding, in the context of digital transformation, the EU has enabled people from across Europe to share their ideas and help shape our common future at the first major pan-European democratic exercise – Conference for the Future of Europe.

When it comes to digital transformation, governments and stakeholders must shape a common digital future that makes the most of the immense opportunities that digital transformation holds to improve people’s lives and boost economic growth for countries at all levels of development, while ensuring that nobody is left behind. Because digital transformation is one of the EU’s priorities, and because it impacts most areas of our lives, the European institutions are committed to helping shape holistic policies that will 

Whereas governments need to consider ways for effective, robust and sustainable policy development for digital transformation, they also can use digital technologies to improve efficiency and targeting, enable innovative policy design and rigorous impact evaluation, and expand citizen and stakeholder engagement. Many governments and administrations are currently exploring the possibilities, testing the potential, and evaluating the effectiveness of using digital technologies for improving policy design, implementation, and enforcement.

Authors

Irina Buzu
Irina Buzu

passionate about information technology, innovation, art and AI, Irina is pursuing her PhD research in international law, with a focus on AI regulation and digital creativity. She is currently a government advisor on AI and a delegate to the CoE Committee on AI on behalf of Moldova. Irina is also an emerging tech expert at Europuls, and as part of her research interests studies the intersection between algorithmic decision-making, ethics and public policy, aiming to understand and explore the functioning of the technology that enables algorithmic decision-making and how such technologies shape our worldview and influence our decisions.