Web Summit starts in Lisbon
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The Websummit, a major digital technology event, starts this Tuesday in Lisbon, in the presence of political figures, such as the Timorese president Ramos Horta, but above all economic and cutting-edge sectors, as called “start ups”, in the first post pandemic edition .
Portugal will welcome the future since 2016, the forecast that will remain there until 2028.
The event was born in Ireland, before being exported to Lisbon, Portugal, Rio de Janeiro, Toronto and Hong Kong.
In this 2022 edition, the president participates, namely António Costa, Portuguese prime minister, but also that of the Lisbon City Council, Carlos Moedas.
This seventh edition takes place over four days and should welcome 70 thousand people at the Altice Arena and FIL, Lisbon International Fair.
According to Paddy Cosgrave, quoted by the Portuguese daily Público, the war in Ukraine “will be a dominant theme“, he will continue to express his support for the Ukrainian people due to the Russian invasion since February.
Portugal, in addition to the Web Summit, has also attended many digital nomadswith tax incentives and salaries much higher than national ones.
Situation denounced by Pedro Filipe Soares, leader of the parliamentary bench of the left Bloc, in the opposition.
“We are not against advanced technology. We are not against Portugal modernizing to keep up with technological advances. Everything that comes along this path is positive. But policies that promote equality, fight poverty and guarantee that the creation of skills is carried out in a structural way in Portuguese society must be accompanied.
And not with regimes for a few wealthy people, which then result in the loss of State tax revenue, which lacks access to public policy, as well as access to housing, access to health, and access to education.
And that cause changes in the market as structuring as what we see now with the issues of inflation!
Because inflation has a problem that comes from war [na Ucrânia]but it also has a part of the problem that results from essential goods, in the Portuguese case such as energy, but also with access to the housing market increasingly inflated by purchasing powers that are not those real in the national space.
And all this adds up so that economic opportunities, so that economic development does not work out as it will for the Portuguese people in general.“
Pedro Filipe Soares, 01/11/2022