Inclusive Digital Transformation: declaration with recommendations to the G20

The Inclusive Digital Transformation Task Force aimed to balance the challenges of digitalization and datafication with economic development and the protection of rights and vulnerable individuals. To accomplish its goals, the Task Force fostered collaboration between other T20 Task Forces and different engagement groups, while continuing the work started by previous G20 presidencies. This means centering some key elements, such as the need for a rights and citizen-based approach when dealing with digital transformation and the pivotal role of a data justice perspective. Under Brazil’s presidency, G20 should establish a common position on data governance, recognizing power asymmetries brought about or enhanced by digital technologies and the data that underpin them, and develop tools to deal with them, considering Global Southern epistemologies in particular. 

Six priorities were defined to deal with pressing issues of an increasingly digitized and datafied world: 

1. Digital inclusion and meaningful universal connectivity; 

2. Digital transformation and platformization of public services; 

3. Digital Integrity, Data Protection, and cybersecurity; 

4. New digital technologies for SDGs and decent work; 

5. Challenges, opportunities, and governance of Artificial Intelligence; 

6. Global digital governance and regulation of digital platforms.