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Nadia CaIvino VICE-PRESIDENCY Vice-President AND MINISTRY FOR ECONOMY AND DG(TALIZATION Mr. Kristjan JARVAN Minister nology Ministry of Entrepreneursh,p and Information Tech Suur-Ameerika 1, 10122 Taiiinn, Estonia Madrid, August 23 2022 Dear Minister, e in the impiementation of Spain’s 1 am writing to you to update you on progress mad s after the publication of the Digital digitalization strategy launched in July 2020. Two year the geopolitical situation, we have Spain agenda, and with new challenges arising from ant components in the Spanish taken stock and refreshed the strategy, including the reiev ying key priorities for the coming Pian de Recuperaciön with the 2026 horizon and identif egy (Espafa Digital 2026), attached nionths. The resuit is the new Digital Spain 2026 strat lation of the executive summary. to this letter together with a courtesy English trans digitaiization, to seize the benefits Digital Spain 2026 is the ambitious roadmap for Spain’s ined economic growth, with quality of new technoiogies and achieve stronger and niore susta i and territorial cohesion and employment and higher productivity, contributing to socia axis of Spain’s Recovery Pian prosperity for ali citizens. This agenda details the digitalization contribution to the 2030 Digital under NextGenerationEU and represents the national e. Compass as weIl as EU’s Digital Decade policy programm in three areas: This strategy is aiready bringing about important changes 5G, cybersecurity, Al and f 1. lnfrastructure and technology: boosting connectivity, other disruptive technologies. administrations, digital 2. Economy: driving digitalization of SMEs and public value chains anpos»g entrepreneurship, integration of technoiogy in industriai KOMMLJNIKATSIOONIMN1STEERIUM the audiovisual sector. . . 1, 08. ,?022  O O 3. People: promoting the acquisition of digital skills to secure access to the jobs of the future and digital inclusion of ali citizens, and ensu ring the protection ot individual rights in the digital environment. Since the presentation of the first Espafa Digital agenda in July 2020, Spain’s Recovery Pian has been approved, eight specific rollout plans have been published covenng conAectivity, 5G, digitalization of public administratio n, digitalization of SMEs, digital skills, cybersecurity, the National Al Strategy and the Spain Audiovisual Hub pian. The main investment programmes have been Iaunched at natio nal, regional and Iocal level, and strong progress kas been made in structural reforms in the field oftelecommunications, audiovisual services, cybersecurity and start-ups. Furthermore, two strategic projects (PERTEs) funded with Next Generation EU funds are underway to drive the new economy of language (PERTE Nueva Economfa de la Lengua) and boos t the Spanish microprocessor and semiconductor industry (PERTE Chip). In addition, a new programme (RETECH) has been Iaunched to promote a network oftechnological proje cts driven bythe Autonomous Regions, covering ali transformative and high-impact initiatives across the territory. The results of this strategy are aiready visible. As recentiy announced by the European Commission, Spain has moved two piaces up in the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) 2022, ieading the large European economie s and rating seventh among the 27 EU Member States. 1 look forward to our close cooperation in this area and also weicome you at the OECD Ministerial meeting in the island of Gran Canaria on December 1 3’. Best regards, Nadia CaIvio Vice-President and Minister for Economy and Digitaliz ation