Guyana has joined the European Union (EU)-Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Digital Alliance.
This is according to a statement on Tuesday on the Face-book page of the Delegation of the European Union in Guyana.
The statement said that Guy-ana’s joining will unlock opportunities for partnership and financial support through EU regional programmes for the benefit of Guyanese.
Guyana will work with other LAC governments, EU Member States, private stakeholders, international finance institutions, civil society, and academia on digital challenges like connectivity, regulatory dialogue, data security, digitalization of public services and earth observation data, the statement said.
The EU-LAC Digital Alliance is an informal, values-based framework for cooperation, open to all Latin American and Caribbean countries and EU Member States who may participate through their respective governments and agencies connected to the digital agenda. The EU participates as Team Europe with Member States and their development agencies, European financial institutions and the LAC branch of the Digital4Development Hub.
The EU-LAC Digital Alliance provides a forum for bi-regional dialogue and cooperation on digital matters. “It creates a strategic framework to foster future cooperation, as well as for the substantial EU-LAC digital cooperation that is already ongoing and which includes EU Member States’ cooperation and EU-supported infrastructure in the LAC region like the BELLA programme, Copernicus Centres, the LAC Cyber Competence Centre, and other specific projects, for example on cybercrime under the EL PAcCTO programme”, the statement added.
The EU-LAC Digital Alliance promotes cooperation on a wide range of issues, including space-related activities such as Copernicus Earth observation data and Galileo/EGNOS satellite navigation applications and services. In this regard, the Alliance will explore cooperation with the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (ALCE). Knowledge transfer and exchange on digital citizenship, digitisation of public services and registries, digital identity, electronic signatures and related interoperability will also be encompassed.
