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Digitalisation has fundamentally changed our professional and private lives. Some of us, however, may think that the digitisation of economy and society is moving too fast, making it hard to keep up with the technological progress.

After the kick-off of the new series of ELRC Country Workshops in Sweden in November 2020, ELRC travelled to eleven countries – with additional ones already in the pipeline.

Language-centric Artificial Intelligence applications are popping up all around us in our everyday lives. Voice assistants, TV show recommenders, automated translation services, to name a few, are used more and more. The development of such powerful applications is fuelled by three key factors: algorithms, computing power, and data. Nowadays, well-established deep learning algorithms are available and can be implemented via open-source machine learning libraries.

Developed under the Horizon 2020 Programme, COMPRISE aims to define a fully private-by-design methodology and tools to reduce development costs and increase voice interfaces inclusiveness.

In 2016, the European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly launched the first Award for Good Administration, aiming to recognise initiatives, projects and other types of work by the EU administration with “a visible and direct positive impact on the lives of people in Europe and beyond”.