The Real Threat Isn't AI, It's the Data | Deemah AlYahya, Secretary-General, DCO | The End of Limits

And just to begin quickly, I know I gave a brief overview, but I would love to hear from you what the DCO is.

Well, let's go back in time a bit and see how the economical revolution is reshaping how it looks like and where are the sources of that economy.

Last year alone, the digital economy was 16% of the global GDP.

And expected in 2030, 22% of the global GDP would be driven by digital economy.

Now, that is a very big jump in a couple of years.

And it showcases the importance of such kind of technology driving GDPs and economies going forward.

But if we look in depth, we see who is really benefiting from that increase and who is participating in that increase.

And we see that only a handful of countries are being a movers and shakers when it comes to that growth in the economy.

And this is where a divide is being presented and increasing, actually.

It's not just about accessibility to technology anymore.

It's about the usage and the... capabilities and who can use and who can produce and who can create local content and so on.

And this is where DCO has been created to create a platform to bridge that gap.

to bring all the stakeholders involved in increasing that digital economy on one table to support each other, either governments, private sector, civil society, and also financial institutions, to decide together on how can each help each other in that growth and in bridging that gap of prosperity in digital economy.

Makes sense.

I would also love to sort of ground this definition a bit more in the realities in the day-to-day of your life.

So tech diplomat, I think, is a bit of a hard title to explain to people.

It doesn't come intuitively.

And, you know, the role of a diplomat alone has changed so much with, you know, digital progression because it used to be that a diplomat worked because there was no way of having fast communication between the world leaders.

And now...

There is.

So I want to understand how this role has evolved and how you would define it for someone who's not aware of what that looks like.

Well, we're still defining it.

It is a new term, but it has been created because of that increasing importance of building those relationships.

Again, as you have rightfully mentioned, diplomacy is about shared interests.

It's about building these bridges and communication gaps between one country to another and having shared interests in economy and in sectors, in several sectors as well.