Álvaro Nadal, minister of Energy, Tourism y Digital Agenda, participated last week in Gaceta’s Forum “Challenges of the future” where he showed to be an optimist in terms of the prospects with which Spain faces the digital challenge.

The Minister of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda, Álvaro Nadal, ensured in Gaceta’s Forum that “the Spanish are doing things quite well with technology” and compared, for example, the expenditure involved in installing optical fiber in our country, 120 euros, with what it costs in the rest of Europe, 900 euros on average. However, he admits we are on the wrong track until our country continues to invest in networks; companies such as Google or Facebook which are in other countries.

One of the most worrying issues for the Minister at the moment is in relation to adapting the Constitution of 78 an its analogical nature to the new digital environment. According to Nadal, technology is already being applied to other areas his Ministry, such as tourism or energy; for example, finding out certain matters about the tourists that come to Spain using roaming data. Also, I agree with the Minister at pointing at the importance of 5G networks for use in the automobile world, for example in the sale of digital vehicles it will have a very important role, and this is where our country will be able to make a difference by offering products from the top notch.

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Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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