The Open Forum #75: The Portuguese Speaking Community as a Case Study on Digital Cooperation, promoted by ANACOM, took place yesterday. This event is part of the Internet Governance Forum, currently being held in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).
The session featured various personalities from the Lusophone community and aimed to discuss the importance of digital cooperation among Portuguese-speaking countries.
The panel included the following speakers:
- Leonilde Santos, President of ARCTEL (video intervention)
- Sandra Maximiano, President of ANACOM
- Luísa Ribeiro Lopes, President of .PT
- Bianca Kremer, Counselor at CGI.br
- Marta Moreira Dias, President of LusNIC
- Mozart Tenório, Advisor to the Presidency of ANATEL
- David Gomes, Executive Secretary of ARCTEL
The session highlighted the Portuguese language as a strategic asset, connecting a community spread across four continents, and emphasized the need to better leverage this resource in the context of global digital transformation.
Key Challenges Addressed
Among the challenges shared by the Lusophone Community and identified as priorities, the following stood out:
- Promoting digital inclusion;
- Strengthening technological cooperation and fostering economic, social, and political development, particularly by integrating the Portuguese language into artificial intelligence (AI);
- Enhancing the Lusophone Community's capacity to influence global debates on the future of the digital ecosystem, particularly within the ITU and the Internet Governance Forum.
During the discussion, the central role of ARCTEL-CPLP and LusNIC in overcoming these challenges was underscored.
