07.05.2019

Serbian Digital Week, Belgrade, April 2019.

In Belgrade, at the beginning of April, Serbian Digital Week was held, the culmination of which was the Western Balkans Digital Summit that took place on April 4 and 5, 2019, at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade. The beginning of the summit marked the Titan robot with its dance with the worldwide hit "Gangnam Style". The Summit was held in two days, covering four topics on the main stage: digital literacy, networking, security, and digital economy. This year's Summit attracted over three thousand participants, 200 speakers in three different stages and 80 digital companies, and among the participants were representatives of governments, enterprises and regional organizations whose main goal was to establish a digital platform where ideas and plans for improvement could be exchanged ICT sectors in this part of Europe. Part of the program, like last year, was dedicated to presenting the best IT companies from the region to prominent figures from the world of politics and business not only from the territory of the Western Balkans, but also from all over Europe, even the world. One panel that was held during the Summit was on the subject of improvement and school system: "Education reinvented". The key topics discussed include: how the school system will look like in 2030, which will challenge the introduction of new technologies and how to react to them, and how the gap between the current school system and the latest technologies can be reduced. It was concluded that the schooling in 2030 will no longer be based on the transfer of knowledge, but that the emphasis will be on the development of practically applicable skills, and that it is very important that students are not passive but active innovators.