27 Amendments of Samira RAFAELA related to 2020/2216(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that across all digital technology domains exists a gender gap putting women at a disadvantage, women account for 30 % of the technology workforce and, 17 % of ICT specialists in Europe and only 12 % in the domain of AI , and that the EU economy would be boosted by EUR 16 billion a year if women technology graduates were not hindered from followeding through to digital jobs at the same rate as men;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the European Union needs to take urgent steps to close the gap with the US and China to be at the forefront of ensuring a competitive data- driven global economy and to become a leader in setting digital standards;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. SNotes the risks of incompatibility between approaches of different trading partners when it comes to the regulation of digital trade; strongly supports multilateral solutions for digital trade rules and calls for the plurilateral WTO negotiations on e- commerce to be concluded as a matter of urgency; regrets that, in the absence of global rules, EU companies are faced with non-tariff barriers in digital trade such as unjustified data localisation and mandatory technology transfer requirements; supports making the WTO moratorium on electronic transmissions permanent; calls for the EU to further work with partners, for instance within the OECD and WTO, to set global standards for AI, in the interest of reducing trade barriers and promoting trustworthy AI in line with the EU's values;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas these developments plausibly facilitate human-machine synergies, thereby producing a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate outcomes, but also pose serious challenges in terms of workforce reorganisation and the potential elimination of more sectors and employment than the new forms they createand can lead to greater workforce access to previously excluded social groups such as people with disabilities, while risks linked to employment sector disappearance must mitigated by ensuring more and better jobs are created than are lost;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. NStresses the centrality of data flows to digital trade, and that apart from being a means of production, data itself has become a tradable asset; notes that data access and processing are often indispensable to providing competitive digital services, notably in AI; calls on the Commission to adopt digital trade rules that increase the competitiveness of EU business and facilitate the free transfer of data flowsflow of non- personal data across borders while respecting EU data protection rules; highlights that in line with the GDPR, personal data can be transferred to third countries via adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses and binding corporate rules; calls for data protection considerations to be raised in future trade agreements, with the aim to facilitate the adequacy decision process with trading partners;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on Commission and member states to apply multi-level approach to address the gender gap in all levels of digital education and employment, as well the access to the increasing online services and facilities; Stresses that closing the digital gender gap will increase gender equality not only for the labour market, but also through access to technologies and services;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas the digital divide has specific socio-economic gender, age, geographic and accessibility aspects which must be addressed;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Recalls that the Covid pandemic has underlined the lack of access to internet, digital technologies and infrastructures in some rural areas making teleworking difficult if not impossible;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Recalls that teleworking can be an opportunity for women by allowing them to work from home and has the potential to lead to a better work-life balance;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Calls on the Commission to assist member states to take the necessary steps to ensure that women can benefit from the opportunities telework can provide for an effective balance between paid professional and caregiving responsibilities by ensuring efficient implementation of the work-life balance directive in order to ensure a more equal distribution of caregiving responsibilities in families, as well as ensuring that women have access to the necessary social protection system and childcare;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that AI can significantly contribute to promotingovercoming gender discrimination and address the challenges faced by women in order to promote gender equality, provided that an appropriate legal framework is developed, allowing for the elimination of conscious and unconscious biases are eliminated and the respect of the principles of gender equality are respected; stresses the lack of diversity in the AI sector within teams of developers and engineers, and the importance of using sex- disaggregated data when developing products, AI standards, algorithms and applications;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Recalls the importance of eliminating unintentional gender discriminatory bias from algorithms and AI applications that perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes, favours the development of ‘gender-biased algorithms’, and lead to the reduced participation of women in the digital, AI and ICT fields; Stresses the need to address the gender innovation bias within the digital sector, whereby the designers and developers of services, software and user applications are mostly men and the users for a large amount are women;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls on the Commission to put forward a regulatory framework to address bias, unjustified discrimination and inequalities inherent in high-risk AI systems, including biometric systems; calls for more diversity through an intersectional approach and gender- balance among AI designers, and to ensure sufficient and qualified training to AI designers on the transparency, discrimination, gender stereotypes, racial, and ethnic origin and culture bias;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the role of digital trade and the use of blockchain for instance in facilitating access to global value chains for SMEs and contributing to women’s economic empowerment. making cross-border trade processes and commercial transactions more efficient and less costly; Highlights in particular the benefits these could bring to contributing to women’s economic empowerment and also using blockchain to facilitate due diligence for companies; Calls for Digital Trade to be a pillar of the EU's new Trade Strategy; Further calls for Digital Trade Chapters to be included in all future FTAs;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Highlights that structural gender- bias present in academia, research and business in the digital sectors slows down the career progression for women and reduces their career opportunities, results in an underrepresentation of women in the digital economy; calls on the Commission to ensure that such bias to the largest extent possible are countered during the funding, application and decision-making processes through the design of these as well as calls on the Commission to allocate more funding supporting females academics, researchers and entrepreneurs;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for special attention to be paid to women and girls as vulnerable consumers and to the rise in cyber violence against women in the digital world, and welcomes the Commission’s proposal on the digital services act (COM(2020)0825), which is addressing these issues.
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the positive impact AI can have on European labour markets, leading to job creation, safer and more inclusive workplaces, combating discrimination in recruitment and pay and promoting better skill-matching and work-flows, as long as risks are mitigated and regulatory frameworks updated with regularity as the digital wave progresses;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce and ensure the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the Digital Single Market Strategy with a view to effectively addressing the under- representation of women ingrowing sectors for the future EU economy.
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that AI must serve exclusivelyforemost as an aid to human performancedevelopment and comply with all rules ensuring respect for fundamental rights, including the protection of personal data and privacy, and the prohibition of arbitrary profiling, with sufficient access to information available to all those workers and employers who will be affected;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that a main priority for research and investment in the use of AI should be the creation of opportunities for people previously excluded from employment to have access to labour markets, such as working aid tools, mobility solutions or intelligent sensors systems for people with disabilities or visually impaired, fostering social inclusion and fighting poverty;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
b. Stresses the importance of addressing the digital gender gap and ensuring the participation of women and girls in the development and implementation of digital technologies and AI to ensure that existing inequalities are not exacerbated or replicated; further underlines the importance of women and girls' equal access to STEM and digital education and subsequent employment in the digital, STEM and ICR sectors;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the implementation of AI enforcesis included in the dialogue between social and economic partners, and to allow trade unions access to the work floor, albeit in digital form, in orderhat digital solutions are employed to promote collective bargaining and guarantee a human-centred approach to AI at work;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the importance of cooperation between academics, industry, social partners and governments on research and innovation in digital technologies, so that all human aspects are taken into account1 and that proper and rigorous testing and training frameworks exist in the implementation of AI; __________________ 1 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, ‘Digitalisation and occupational safety and health – An EU-OSHA research programme’, p. 10.
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its call for legal protection for platform workers and telecalls the adoption of the Council Recommendation on Access to social protection for workers and the self- employed and strongly reiterates the need to ensure platform workers, as well as recognition of their status as such, to ensure that their entitlement to full social security protection is uphelworkers in the gig economy have access to adequate to and coverage from social protection; considers that a legislative framework that has the aim of regulating telework conditions across the Union should be introduced;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to improve labourresearch and distribute good practices in ensuring adequate social protection and adequate working conditions for platform workers in its upcoming legislative proposal in order to guarantee healthy and safe working environments, quality employment anddecent wages, the right to disconnect, the obligation of employers to offer perpetual digital retrainoptions for skilling, and full, transparent checks of employees’ online identityre-skilling, including digital skills;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to improve labour conditions for platform workers in its upcoming legislative proposal in order to guarantee healthy and safe working environments, quality employment and wages, the right to disconnect, the obligation of employers to offer perpetual digital retraining, and full, transparent checks of employees’ online access to adequate social protection, fair and transparent working conditions, decent wages, right to collective representation, right to disconnect, training offers enabling skilling and re-skilling, as well as reliable verification processes of the platform user's identityies;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls onWelcomes the Commission and the Member States to's update thed European Skills Agenda and the new Digital Education Action Plan, so that workers can upskill and become qualified for the challenges of the future world of work; (2021- 2027), which will help workers to up and re-skill and become qualified for the future world of work and manage the digital wave; further welcomes the recently adopted Council Recommendations on VET and calls on the Member States to swiftly implement it by updateing their national vocational and professional training and upskilling programmes so as to ensurhance digital literacy and promote digital inclusion (οn average, 16 % of EU workers fear that digitalisation will render their skills outdated2 ); __________________ 2 Cedefop, ‘Artificial or human intelligence? Digitalisation and the future of jobs and skills: opportunities and risks’, p. 3.