REGAINING SOVEREIGNTY “The EU has decided that digital transformation is beneficial for people and businesses, and that it will play a decisive role in achieving climate neutrality by 2050. And that it wants to strengthen its self-governance in this Digital Decade by following its own rules, not those set by others, by concentrating on data, technology, and infrastructure,” explains the Commission. Because, of course, the aforementioned Compass has at times been magnetized, which has led to the EU taking a confusing course: for example, its distinct lack of support in creating national champions, large corporations with the ability to compete for a part of the global pie. And that, of course, is where Big Tech from the USA and Chinese platforms stepped in. “The Union sees the digital revolution from more of an economic and humanist perspective, with the aim of reducing vulnerability and interruption, and not from the perspective of creat-ing a technological order that mirrors its values and interests,” is how THE ROLE PLAYED BY ACCIONA IN DIGITAL HUMANISM At one time Europe made 40% of the world’s microchips, today that figure is around 10% and they want to double that quota by 2030. THE ROLE PLAYED BY ACCIONA IN DIGITAL HUMANISM Global experience. The headquarters is European, the company is global. That knowledge crossover aids understanding of how to digitalize European infrastructure: with social vision and the added value of good practice learnt in different markets and regions. Evolution 5.0. After Industry 4.0, 5.0 is starting to make an appearance, with man/machine cooperation for the well-being of people and the health of the planet. ACCIONA embodies that evolution with its award-winning sustainability, rankings and indexes, its Social Impact Management methodology, which includes human development from the very beginning of each project, and the Regeneration objective: to not only heal wounds inflicted by unsustainable development, but also to go further by aiding the recovery of communities and ecosystems. Effect on the network. Profound cultural change is the indispensable condition, but digitalization is a collective endeavour which transcends any organization. Therefore, ACCIONA envisions it as a profound internal change projected outwards, showing commitment to this common objective to partners, suppliers, stakeholders, and clients. That network effect multiplies economic performance and the social benefit of infrastructure. Industrial Scale. Digitalization does not change what ACCIONA is working for, but it does revolutionize how it works. Nothing gets left out, and it requires a complete focus on data, on automizing and robotizing facilities, digitalizing logistical chains, design and production engineering chains, operations, processes, and flow, and for it to be done at the pace required by each individual business, for every client. With the entire arsenal: advanced sensorics and analytics, AI, data governance, smart control centers, circular economy, digital twin, the Internet of things, 5G and cybersecurity… What does this achieve besides a leap in efficiency? The key to humanist digitalization: the industrialization of infrastructure, to provide a better service to many more millions of people.