READ MORE editorial www.acciona.com The way to achieve this is by turning the social purpose underpinning the Union into a competitive advantage P editorial icasso remarked that, even with all his talent, he was unable to capture eyes like Frida Kahlo. That is the key to human genius, whether in a work of art or épo-que-defining technology: the profound gaze, the vision to understand how to move towards the exact destination. The old continent is betting its future on a digital transformation that will come to define it in coming decades. Which powers will set the destination and which coun-tries will be obliged to follow. The plan is to compete with the USA and China, to shorten the distance in tech development, to be a factotum in achie-ving climatic neutrality, and with no time to lose, as the unfolding drama in editorial in the Ukraine makes clear: Europe needs to reduce dependence on fos-sil fuel and the materials making their rivals wealthy. The way to achie-ve this is by turning the social purpose underpinning the Union into a competitive advantage. ACCIONA’s Director of Digital Transformation for Infrastructure, Alejandro Beivide, explains how the company is facing up to that his-toric challenge. The technological decisions that we take today will determine whether or not we realize our vision: that of a business which has greater value for being more sustainable, more efficient, with grea-ter positive impact from understanding digitalization simply with that human intention. At ACCIONA we always work today thinking about the day after tomorrow. The energy, hydrological, transport or communication infrastructure which will be part of that future is already underway: for example, the digital management of public services in Gijon as a blue-print for smart cities. Or the desalination and purification plants which, thanks to the technological leap on our industrial scale, will meet the needs of many more millions of people, of farming and business in one of the most astonishing transformative projects of the future: Saudi Arabia. Yes, that mutation is also digital, and we will also be part of it.