DIGITALIZATION: Making sense of today's changes and tomorrow's impact

Today, a New Digital Deal is needed more than ever. Big tech breaches to data privacy, governments using data against their own citizens, citizens pushing back against ever more technology in their streets, schools and workplace environments. This is a trying period for the world, especially regarding our excitement about the potential of digitalization to make our societybetter. We need new pairs of lens to examine digitalization and see through it into a safer future. Our civilization and human destiny may just be determined by a new construct of A Digital Deal.Digitalization has delivered unprecedented access to information, education, care, jobs and entertainment. It is transforming how we manage scarce resources efficiently, boosting smartermobility and advancing effective collaborative modes of working. We are digitalization, it is defining and rewiring our human conduct and adaptability.