The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, inaugurated on the campus of the University Alfonso X el Sabio (UAX) the conference entitled “Society 4.0: towards a digitized world”, organized by the Community of Madrid with the collaboration of the UAX and the Town Hall.

The Mayor, Luis Partida, received the Regional President as well as the Vice President and Councilor for Education and Universities, Enrique Ossorio, the Councilor CM Local Administration, Carlos Izquierdo, the President and CEO of UAX , Jesús Núñez and Javier Cano, respectively. Before inaugurating the event, the regional president signed the university’s honor book.

The Councilor of Villanovense thanked the Community of Madrid and, in particular, the President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for having organized this type of initiative: “New technologies are an excellent opportunity to bring the administration closer to the citizen. In Villanueva de la Cañada we have been and continue to be pioneers, so much so that in this budget year we will allocate more than 800,000 euros to technological improvements,” said the councilor, who participated at the end of the day with the councilor of local administration and Digitization of the CM, Carlos Izquierdo, and the rector of the UAX, Isabel Fernández.

Digitization and youth

During the day, round tables were organized where different topics related to the challenges and opportunities offered by new technologies, rights in the digital age or even security and awareness of digitalization among young people and adolescents were discussed. been addressed. Present were, among other authorities, the Deputy Minister of Local Administration and Digitization, José Antonio Sánchez Serrano, the Deputy Minister of Educational Policy, Rocío Albert López-Ibor, the Deputy Minister of the Interior and director of the Madrid 112 Security and Emergency Agency, Carlos Novillo Peris, as well as the general directors of youth and digital policy, Nikolay Yordanov and Alberto Retana, respectively. They also had experts in cyberbullying prevention, school cybersecurity, technological addictions, identity and digital law, family mediation, etc.