The organization of the Director General office was: •
A: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Office (Director: Lucilla Sioli) The AI Office is responsible for strengthening Europe's competitiveness by stimulating innovation while safeguarding the responsible development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Office develops capabilities and performs the necessary tasks to supervise the
AI Act, enforcing the rules on general-purpose models, developing tools, methodologies and benchmarks for their evaluation, and supporting the implementation of the rules on high-risk AI systems as well as on prohibited practices. The AI Office ensures the appropriate governance of the
AI Act by working in close collaboration with the AI Board of Member States, the Scientific Panel and the Advisory Forum of stakeholders. •
B: Digital Decade and Connectivity (Director: Kamila Kloc) Directorate B works on the following items: The implementation, monitoring and reporting of the Digital Decade Program. The promotion of access to and take-up of gigabit and 5G networks for all citizens and businesses of the
European Union, as one of the key targets of the 2030 Digital Decade policy Programme. The development of policies and legislation in the area of electronic communications. The application, monitoring and enforcement of the European regulatory framework for electronic communications. The monitoring and reviewing the digital parts of Member States’ Recovery and Resilience Plans. The development of policies and legislations in the area of spectrum and ensuring that Member States efficiently manage and use harmonised spectrum. •
Directorate C: Enabling and Emerging Technologies (Director: Kilian Gross) Directorate C's objective is to strengthen Europe's leadership in enabling and emerging digital technologies and infrastructures and foster the build-up of competitive value chains and ecosystems in such technologies. This entails supporting the development and market uptake of cutting-edge semiconductor, photonics, super-computing and quantum technologies; supporting the development, deployment and access to world-class semiconductor, photonics, super-computing and quantum technology infrastructures, applications and services, including in AI Factories; and enabling the transition towards digital networks robust against new security threats posed by developments in supercomputing and quantum computing. •
D: Online Platforms Economy (Director: Rita Wezenbeek) The mission of Directorate D is to enforce the
Digital Services Act (DSA) and the
Digital Markets Act (DMA) with a focus on their economic and market-related dimensions. •
E: Future Networks (Director: Thibaut Kleiner) The Directorate E is responsible for strategic advancement of the policy, technological research and standardisation on all-encompassing Future Internet dimension, ensuring an innovative intertwining of all these aspects so that Europe can lead in the design, piloting and roll-out of the Internet of tomorrow. Its strategic agenda focuses on components that are crucial for the digital economy, including 5G global policy advancement, research, innovation and deployment of future mobile systems, strategic use of spectrum, implementation of cloud policies, support to software strategy and implementation of a common European IoT agenda, while addressing a long-term perspective for the Internet. •
F: Online Platforms Society (acting director: Prabhat Agarwal) The mission of Directorate F is to enforce the
Digital Services Act (DSA) with a focus on the societal impacts and risks arising from the use of online platforms in the Union. •
G: Data (Director: Yvo Volman) The mission of Directorate G is threefold: to set up framework conditions for a thriving European data economy, to exploit the potential of the European cultural heritage and
creative industries; to contribute to removing digital barriers that lead to social and economic disparities, such as language, accessibility and education. •
H: Cybersecurity and Trust (acting director: Christiane Kirketerp De Viron) The mission of Directorate H is to oversee cybersecurity matters, including technology, related capacity building and policy, inter-institutional cyber crisis coordination as well as digital identity and trust. •
I: Media Policy (Director: Giuseppe Abbamonte) The Directorate supports the development of a competitive European audiovisual and media industry able to reach out to new audiences and thrive in the
Digital Single Market. The Directorate ensures that the audiovisual and
copyright legislative frameworks are fit for purpose in the digital era and promote the circulation of works across borders and reward innovation. Through support actions, it fosters the creation, distribution, and promotion of European works across Europe and beyond. It supports research on new technologies and services resulting from convergence and
social media in any device and mobile environments. The Directorate monitors the threats to
media independence and journalists across the EU. The Directorate promotes Europe's cultural diversity and the production of news on European affairs with a European perspective. •
R: Resources and Support (Director: Anne Montagnon) To support DG Connect's people and operations, including those related to research projects in
H2020,
CEF,
FP7 and
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