Global online launch of PSI’s three-year project on digitalisation Our Digital Future to be held on May 11, at 15:00 - 16:30 (CEST) (Check your local time here). Interpretation will be available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Russian.

Our Digital Future is a partnership with FES and EPSU to ensure public service unions and workers understand the challenges digitalisation poses to workers, unions and public services and are empowered to influence them. You can find out more about Our Digital Future here.

We are all aware of the rapid rise in power of digital corporations, how they increasingly influence our lives and workplaces, the use of data-driven algorithms in decision-making and the threats and challenges they pose to public services. It is essential that we are prepared to meet these challenges.

The event programme:

Open and Welcome

• Mirko Herberg, Coordinator, FES Global Trade Union Programme

• Rosa Pavanelli, PSI General Secretary

Launch of Our Digital Future

• PSI’s Global Digitalisation Programme
  Daniel Bertossa, PSI Assistant General Secretary

• Introduction to Our Digital Future
  Dr. Christina Colclough, Founder, Why Not Lab

• How digitalisation affects public services workers
  Christian Daigle, President, Syndicat de la fonction publique et parapublique du Québec

• Digitalisation and development
  Ridwan Oleyede, Co-Founder, Tech Hive Advisory

Chair: Daniel Bertossa

We will also launch PSI’s Union Action Guide on Digitalisation which sets out the issues that public service unions face, the actions we can take and the resources available.

Register now to attend the Global Launch of “Our Digital Future” Project.

If your union would like to get involved and become a Digital Rights Organiser, please contact agustina.soto.acebal@world-psi.org by the latest 18th May.