T7 2025: Digital Infrastructure Solutions to Advance Data Agency — How Can Governments Catalyze Positive Innovation for a Fair Data Economy?

Speaker: S. Yash Kalash

April 21, 2025

T7 2025: Digital Infrastructure Solutions to Advance Data Agency — How Can Governments Catalyze Positive Innovation for a Fair Data Economy?

“Digital agency should be the key component of digital infrastructure in order to give the power back to citizens, and to take it back from tech monopolies.”

Digital sovereignty means not being forced to rely on big tech. Our data needs to be secure, and we need to trust the infrastructure that holds it. This Think7 panel calls on the G7 to prioritize empowering civil society by establishing safer digital infrastructure globally. How do we help people exercise their data agency rights?

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