NEWS
Siemens Portugal invests
€20 million in digitisation
by 2020
Portugal
takes part
in Europol’s
12th Referral
Action Day
O
n November 29, 2018, Europol’s
European Union Internet Referral Unit
(EU IRU) organised its 12th joint Referral
Action Day with the national referral units
of seven Member States and third parties,
including Denmark, France, Germany,
Ireland, Lithuania, Portugal and the United
Kingdom. This joint action was coordinated
from Europol’s headquarters in The Hague
and targeted online material linked to
terrorist activities.
During the Referral Action Day, the parties
involved thoroughly reviewed the referral
process, from the detection of terrorist
content, to its flagging, to the online service
providers. The focus of this continuous
initiative included the detection and
referral of terrorist content from 10 file
sharing platforms. A total amount of 7,393
items were assessed and referred to the
participating online platforms with a request
to be reviewed against their terms of service.
S
iemens Portugal will invest another
€20 million in digitisation over the
next two years. The announcement was
made by Pedro Pires de Miranda, CEO
of Siemens Portugal, in the presence
of Prime Minister, António Costa, and
Minister of Economy, Pedro Siza Vieira.
In June of this same year, the company
had already announced an investment
of five million euros to boost this area in
Portugal, thus dedicating a total of €25
million to the digitisation of the country.
Pedro Siza Vieira, Minister of Economy,
said: “This new Siemens investment
in Portugal, in an area as important
as digitisation, reinforces the
multinational’s commitment to the skills
of our talents which also have a strong
export capacity in this area, creating
value in the new economy.”
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Pedro Pires de Miranda, CEO of Siemens,
said: “This investment reinforces the
strategy we have defined for this area
in Portugal. In the first half of the year,
we announced that we were going to
invest five million in digitisation. Now
we have the great satisfaction of being
able to announce that we are going
to invest five times more. There are 25
million euros linked to digitisation, an
investment that will greatly benefit the
national economy.”
Europol promotes cooperative relations
to combat terrorist online propaganda.
Similar joint actions will continue to be
organised frequently.
Based within Europol’s European Counter
Terrorism Centre (ECTC), the EU IRU detects
and investigates terrorist content on the
Internet. Furthermore, the Unit produces
strategic insights into jihadist terrorism
and provides support to law enforcement
authorities in the EU Member States in online
criminal investigations.
A quarter of this investment will
be directed towards the complete
renovation and modernisation of
a building, to respond to the new
concepts of work, betting on spaces
of co-creation and ideation, while the
remaining €15 million will be applied in
the creation of 400 new posts of work in
the area of IT by 2020.
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