By Lee Jon-young

President Yoon Suk-yeol delivered a keynote speech at the 'New York Digital Vision Forum' held at New York University on September 21 in the U.S., with representatives from the U.S. and world-renowned scholars in attendance, and presented the basic principles of the 'Digital Bill of Rights', a new digital order.
 

The forum was held at the same venue exactly one year after the New York Initiative ('22. 9. 21), which first proposed the need for international solidarity in establishing a new order in the era of deepening digitalization. 
Since the announcement of the New York Initiative, President Yoon has emphasized the importance of establishing a digital order at the Davos Forum, Harvard University and the Sorbonne in Paris, the G20 Summit, and the UN General Assembly. 

The "Digital Bill of Rights" is the culmination of discussions with domestic and international experts, and the forum is the first opportunity to present the principles to citizens around the world.

The five basic principles of the "Digital Bill of Rights" announced by President Yoon are: ➊Guaranteeing freedom and rights in the digital environment, ➋Fair access to digital and equality of opportunity, ➌Secure and reliable digital society, ➍Promoting digital innovation based on autonomy and creativity, and ➎Promoting human welfare. The full text of the Digital Bill of Rights, which reflects these five basic principles, will be released in Korea soon.

Meanwhile, at the forum, three Korean institutions and New York University signed an MOU on "AI-Digital Business Partnership" to jointly promote R&D, human resource training, and commercialization in the AI-digital field. 

President Yoon expressed his strong support for the signing of the MOU, saying that it will serve as a springboard to solidify the alliance between Korea and NYU in the field of AI and digital, and that researchers and companies from both countries will be able to expand globally together through it.

The forum was attended by NYU President Linda Mills, New York City Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, National Science Foundation Director Seturaman Pananathan, former U.S. Ambassador to Korea Mark Lippert, and NYU Professor Jan Lekun, winner of the Turing Prize, the Nobel Prize for digital science, and one of the world's four greatest minds in AI. 

On the Korean side, Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong-ho, KAIST President Lee Kwang-hyung, and Software Industry Association President Cho Joon-hee were in attendance. In addition, Democratic Senate Leader Charles Schumer sent a video congratulation to support the event.