Mathieu Michel reacts to the resignation of his “Digital Minds”: “I perceive the frustration of those that want to speed up the digital transition”

The Secretary of State for Digitalisation, Mathieu Michel, regretted, on Saturday, the resignation of Laurent Hublet, the boss of the Brussels campus BeCentral, from the consulting group ‘Digital Minds’. “I remorse it, as a result of Laurent, like different individuals, are a part of a gifted and inventive ecosystem that’s constructing the Belgian financial mannequin of tomorrow. Many conferences have been held to be able to define the ambitions that we want to develop to be able to construct an actual Belgian and European digital sovereignty. All of my coverage is basically impressed by these exchanges”, reacted the Secretary of State.

“One of the simplest ways to contribute to the event of an efficient and bold political technique is all the time to remain on the desk. Nevertheless, I perceive the frustration of those that, like me, want to speed up the digital transition”, he stated. he provides.

“It’s important, much more in Belgium than elsewhere, to contribute to convergence and to determine open and shared governance. This has all the time been one of many pillars of my Good Nation technique. On this sense, working collectively to be able to make to everybody that this new economic system is the one that can feed the social mannequin of the longer term, is crucial”, continued Mathieu Michel, who will “quickly” invite the Digital Minds to a gathering “to be able to think about with them one of the simplest ways to convey this message to all governments”.

Saturday morning, L’Echo and De Tijd reported that Laurent Hublet had resigned from the group, disenchanted by the finalization of a plan on digital priorities.

“Because the finalization on February 9, 2022 of a plan based mostly on ten digital priorities, I need to sadly be disillusioned. This technique has by no means been made public or applied. Worse, a set of choices go towards the promise made”, he wrote in his resignation letter that we had been in a position to seek the advice of.

The ‘Digital Minds’ group, which notably advises the Secretary of State, brings collectively financial leaders corresponding to Guillaume Boutin (Proximus), Marion De Bruyne (Vlerick), Philippe Destatte (Institut Destrée), Thierry Geerts (Google) , Peter Hinssen (Nexxworks), Claire Munck (BeAngels), Ibrahim Ouassari (Molengeek), Pierre Rion (IPM, Digital Council?) and even Koen Van Bathroom (SFPI).