Austrian Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs, Margarete Schramboeck said that “we do not need for ,” Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reports on April 2.
Schramboeck — who previously served as CEO of major fixed and mobile network operator A1 Telekom Austria — delivered her during the ANON Summit discussion panel dedicated to “The role of in the age of “.
Speaking about the development of appropriate regulations towards , the Minister said that “Europe has a strong tendency to overregulate. […] And then we are surprised that there are no European companies in the top 10 worldwide.”
Although Schramboeck advocated for the of , she said that “we do not need for .” Last June, Board directors of the Austrian Financial Market Authority, Klaus Kumpfmueller and Helmut Ettl, also proposals for stricter regulations on and initial coin offerings ().
Schramboeck said that the technology is of considerable interest at the state level, but that first it is needed to “build trust in technology and skills” before those new technologies can be applied to critical public processes like . Schramboeck purportedly aims to actively deploy technology in various areas of public administration.
Austria has demonstrated a proactive approach in regard to research and application. Last December, the COMET Centers, which are coordinated by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, the Austrian Center in Vienna. The center will be multidisciplinary and focus on the , , , , and applications in public administration.
In November of last year, the government of Austria a research company, Lancor Scientific, that uses technolgy to detect the .
Published at Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:05:05 +0000
