5 Amendments of Michal ŠIMEČKA related to 2022/2036(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that in-person help should be provided to EU citizens to help them access public services, especially persons with disabilities and elderly people, but also to mitigate low levels of digital literacy and poor internet coverage;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that in 2022, only 54% of Europeans have basic digital skills; recalls that the automation of rights would facilitate significant improvements in administrative procedures for citizens and businesses.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Recalls that the digitalisation of public services goes hand in hand with the guarantee of a stable and quality network coverage for all European citizens; calls on Member States to pay particular attention to the quality of networks in rural areas.
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes note of the role of AI in eGovernment; is concerned that AI risks reinforcing existing discrimination, inequalities and social exclusion and misidentifying or incorrectly classifying individuals belonging to certain groups; calls for effective remedies to be put in place including human checks, while preventing discrimination due to automation and improving the quality and design of datasets; emphasizes that a greater diversity of coder profiles in the IT professions will allow for greater inclusiveness and better representation of individuals in the coded algorithms; points out that only 12% of AI researchers in the world are women.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for eGovernment services to be reliable and to have very high standards of security with human oversight in order to prevent data leaks, data security breaches, and unauthorised and unproportioned access to personal data; stresses that the trust of citizens in eGovernance will only work by ensuring the digital sovereignty of the European union to guarantee the security of data processing and storage.