ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao addresses the G20 Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting on 22 July 2020.

The following was adapted from a speech delivered by Malcolm Johnson, ITU Deputy Secretary-General, at the 26th Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Economic and Environmental Forum, “Leveraging the opportunities of the digital economy,” in Prague, 6 September 2018.

Regulation for the digital economy

Today, the G20 Ministers responsible for the digital economy convened virtually to coordinate their collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic.