Time to Build

Central Europe and State-of-the-Art Technologies

6 July 2020

Investing in strategic digital technologies in Central Europe will help us overcome the crisis, protect against the next one and ensure our security.

Why do we not have therapies or a vaccine, let alone respirators and lung ventilators? We could have had all of that, but we said no. We chose not to have the mechanisms, the factories, the systems to make these things. We chose not to build.

No, there are not the words of an agitator of an ultra-left, communist militia, but spoken by Marc Andreessen, one of the most influential and richest investors in Silicon Valley.

He is the man who made the Internet browser as we know it and who, with his superfluous company, stands behind companies like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Foursquare, GitHub, Pinterest and many others. He wrote a comment entitled “It’s time to build”.

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Jan Klesla

Director of the Institute for Digital Economy (IDE) and a former economics reporter, editor and commentator. He has focused on the digital economy, particularly investments and regulations in the area of the technological disruption of traditional industries. Currently, he externally advises the Czech government on issues of digital transformation and AI specifically, and is one of the co-authors of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy.

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