G20 ministers stress importance of digitisation to research

Ministerial declaration supports development of skills, promotion of ethics and cooperation on infrastructure

Research ministers from the G20 group of leading global economies have adopted a joint declaration stressing the importance of digitisation to research and education, and the need to harness all three in the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We believe in increasing digitalisation to deal with the major challenges the world will face after Covid-19,” says the declaration adopted on 6 August, following the first meeting of research ministers under the Italian G20 presidency.