Prime Minister Edi Rama’s speech on behalf of Albania in the “Dialogue for the Digital Future”

Prime Minister Rama participated in the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, with the theme "Summit of the Future".

On the second day of the works that are taking place at the UN headquarters in New York, the head of the Albanian government spoke about the opportunities and new challanges that technology faces us in these modern times, in the session with the topic: "Dialogue for the digital future" .

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Prime Minister Edi Rama: Starting by saying that digital technology, with its promise for exponential progress is a bless for developing countries, and we in Albania have seen it in our real life and through our endeavors, becoming a place where 95% of services today are online and all the front offices and long queues are history.

On the other hand, we are seeing it in developing model with Artificial Intelligence to push much faster our negotiations with the European Union for the EU membership, as we are seeing it, also in building a new model for completely transparent and 95% unmanned Public Procurements.

On the other hand, of course, digital technology is not just a bless, but also curse cyber attacks, and Albania was victim of very harsh cyber attack from from Iran and we witnessed in in our real life, how much this type of new world based on technology can be harmful to countries and citizens, but at the end, there is no doubt that if we will be able to create a system where the world and the community of nations will get the best out of the promises of the digital technology, and in the same time, will tame all the downsides and the detrimental effects that can come from the malicious use of it,the world will be a much better place.

Thank you very much, and I hope I got your sympathy, Mr. Chairman, by being so short.