Digital education must be strengthened in the face of the important challenges facing this sector. Two major audiences are targeted here: students and people with low digital skills. The priority is to provide structural funding to the associations, which carry out an essential work for these two audiences. This funding could be provided through the redirection of regional and federal digital investment strategies, for the time being focused on private sector support. To strengthen education and training, priorities are:
For people with low digital competence, we want:
Like our neighbours such as Ireland, Norway or the Netherlands, extending the guarantee beyond European directives is a strong signal to a more sustainable digital model. At the Belgian level, we propose to establish a legal guarantee of 5 years for new electronic devices. At the European level, as part of the negotiations on the proposal for a directive on "right to reparation", we ask that the extension of the legal guarantee be equivalent to the expected lifetime of the product.
The right to repair is an important right and too little taken into account by the digital industry. In this sense, the recently established restorative index is a first step of choice. To go further, you have to:
Cyberviolence is an ancient phenomenon, exacerbated by the health crisis. Prevention in this regard, especially in education is necessary but must go hand in hand with:
The public administration must facilitate citizen engagement and the exercise of democracy. Active transparency allows all citizens to verify the work of the administration, by providing default access to public information. The practice of open data promotes an increasingly needed algorithmic transparency given the increasing use of algorithmic systems in the public sector. Promoting these two movements within the public administration is important so that each citizen can exercise the rights of his or her personal data and get an idea of the algorithmic treatment to which he or she is subjected. In concrete terms, for public bodies:
Algorithms and software designed with public money must see their code published under free license. There are many reasons to legislate in this direction at the federal level. Economically, this avoids unnecessary costs because it is not necessary to start from scratch to code two similar applications. This also encourages innovation, as programmers who have access to free algorithmic bases can focus on innovative parts of the code by taking advantage of what has already been done by others. Finally, the public money public code promotes collaboration between projects and allows investment to benefit the citizens who pay for the development of the digital services concerned.
Private local media, which operate in a highly competitive and GAFAM-dominated environment, must also be supported in their technological developments, and have equitable access to the most appropriate digital platforms and technology tools.
AI can support the professional activity of some industries, such as creative industries, audiovisual and media. It can offer interesting tools for example in terms of research, development of scenery or images. On the other hand, it is not intended to create stories or to produce information.
It is essential to create legal frameworks to protect the professional activity and intellectual property rights of creators, creators, authors, autrices, scriptwriters and photographers for example.
Similarly, the work of journalists, both in the production of content and in their role of authentication and certification of information, must be protected and supported. It is also a matter of guaranteeing the right of citizens to have access to reliable, verified and diverse information.
A long-term structural investment in lowtech technologies and innovation is necessary if we want to pursue a responsible and socially just technological path. The goal is to create an ecosystem that supports their massive growth, which can result in the creation of a low-tech research centre, as well as sustained financial support for the development, deployment and appropriation initiatives of this type of "friendly technology". This support needs to focus on the local structures and the social dimension of low-tech, down from a "technological" recovery of the movement that would empty it from its potential to change our relationship to technology.
Nearly one in two people, for less technical than social or physical reasons, have no basic digital skills. This is essential to protect more vulnerable people and to ensure a public and private service accessible to all, as well as inclusive citizen participation. Concretely this translates into:
In short, a refusal of a “all digital” policy, which does not take into account the realities of people in a digital precarious situation.
The ecological impact of the digital sector is rising, and this trend must be reversed. A responsible digital plan will be applied for mobile phone services in the Brussels-Capital Region. The aim of this measure is to extend this plan to all large Belgian digital companies, i.e. to all major organizations, both private and public. Indeed, large organizations are also the largest consumers of digital infrastructure (terminals, datacenters, etc.). The objective is that both the energy and resources consumed are quantified by the organizations, but also that they have consumption targets to be met in the future.
Cybersecurity is a matter of national security, especially for sensitive structures such as health facilities, defence, national registry, etc. Raising the level of IT security in public institutions is an important issue in preventing attacks that could paralyse our institutions and/or jeopardize the security of critical data.
Digital technologies are increasingly integrated by Belgian companies, including through public support for digitalization. We wish to continue to encourage this trend by targeting the uses that make sense at the ecological and social level. To do this, we promote targeted deployment of digital technologies. First, where these technologies can help reduce the ecological footprint of companies. But also where their use primarily benefits workers and the community, and does not participate in increased monitoring at the workplace, nor in the development of a society of the “alldigital”, which excludes the most vulnerable.
The digital observatory would be an independent structure in charge of monitoring the digital path and more generally evaluating the technological choices of the sector. The purpose of this new forum would be to anticipate and advise on the deployment, uses and consequences of digital technologies. To carry out its mission, it should be composed of experts and experts and active and active members of civil society. The Digital Observatory therefore fulfils both an informative and reflexive purpose on the technological trajectory, but also gives the course for the redirection of digital technologies so that they meet the objectives of sustainability and desirability in the context of the just transition.
The potential for development of the digital sector in Belgium is important, provided that high-value-added priorities and niches are selected in connection with our economic ecosystem. Rather than sprinkling public subsidies to the sector, favouring the development of targeted actions on the strengths (e.g. related to the sectors of image and audiovisual, open source, and health) and conditioned on social, sobriety and respect for the environment.
This measure aims to participate in the development of a sober, ethical, democratic and thoughtful IA in Europe not to depend on the United States or China, following the philosophy of free software. The need to develop new technologies that are safe and respect ecological constraints, social requirements and principles of transparency must be reaffirmed. To this end, collaboration and knowledge sharing at the European level seems essential. As such, intra-European cooperation should be promoted for the deployment and use of software that is more respectful to IA users and professionals, as well as to support the creation of a common bank of free algorithms.
The uses of algorithmic processing software are increasing and call for reaffirming the role we want to entrust to these technologies in society. As such, it is essential to regulate, in particular at the European level, through legislation on artificial intelligence (AI act), their deployment and use, in particular by banning technologies that address the fundamental rights of citizens and pose an unacceptable risk to the community. This includes:
ODA has been underfunded and has been undermined by conflicts of interest in recent years. At the Belgian level, we first want to ensure compliance with European data protection regulations, including the GDPR and the Digital Services Act, and to make ODA an example in Europe capable of promoting the country’s digital sovereignty in the face of the many abuses of the private sector, including Big Tech. A competent ODA must be able to proactively protect the interests of individuals, and to respond effectively to the many requests addressed to it. Then we must also be able to guarantee the effectiveness of independent control over it. Finally, with a view to transparency and institutional simplification, integrating the missions of the police information control body to the ADP is a solution for a more democratic management of Belgian personal databases. At the European level, we advocate for strengthening and updating data protection regulations, particularly in the face of the development of AI software, in order to impose greater transparency on the part of Big Tech and stricter regulations regarding the collection, processing and storage of personal data. This transparency must, in particular, be manifested by a clear disclosure of third party actors to whom the personal data of individuals are shared.
To highlight the environmental and societal problem of digital technologies, to propose lines of conduct and concrete actions (recollecting devices to give them a second life, promoting the repair sectors), but also to raise questions about our attachments to digital and to generate a citizen debate on the role that we can and want to entrust to society: what does a numerical look like at the same time sustainable and desirable? What uses do we want to keep or intensify and which ones can we pass, partially or definitively? The objective is a democratic reappropriation of technological choices, necessary for a just transition to an inclusive and sustainable digital.
For a more egalitarian and open society
We want to build a more egalitarian and open society, in which each one is respected, recognized in its singularity and treated fairly.
Gender equality, denial of all forms of racism (anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, negrophobia,asiophobia, etc.) and discrimination and respect for fundamental rights are enshrined in our legislation. Yet they do not realise themselves in the daily life of too many women, LGBTQIA+ people, from immigration or with disabilities. This creates a lot of suffering, a legitimate feeling of injustice and anger among them and their loved ones.
Feminism is part of the environmental project. We have to end the patriarchy that creates the conditions of gender-based and sexual violence. We will fight for real equality between women and men everywhere: in public and private space, in the world of work, in access to power stations and in the world ideas where stereotypes continue too often to reduce the horizon of women from their earliest age.
We must end up with the scourges of racism and discrimination that damages the lives of those who suffer them, and promotes them. We must end up with the growing violence against LGBTQIA+ people and finally end up with the too frequent relegation of people with disabilities.
The injustices must be repaired in order to build a society of freedoms, equality and solidarity; a society of respect, recognition that values diversity, meticing and openness. In contrast to a communitarian development society, identity replis in which people are assigned in frozen belongings that they have not chosen and live in one another.
We want to build a more open society on the world, more welcoming and hospitality to people who had to flee war or persecution in the hope of a better life. It is time to implement a calm and respectful migration policy.
Our country also aims to be open to the world, to engage in a proactive foreign policy that serves the causes of international solidarity, climate and nature, peace, feminism and fundamental rights.
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