Hungary committed to sustainable development, says minister at Huawei conference

Hungary is committed to sustainable development and is working to become an European center for 5G technology, the minister of innovation and technology told a conference organised by Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Monday.

The Connected for Shared Prosperity conference carried online was organised on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress of GSMA, focusing on digitalisation as a tool to promote sustainable economic and social development.

Citing a United Nations forecast, Palkovics said in his address that global consumption would double in the next 40 years.

“We must strive for sustainability, use our restricted resources efficiently and rely on renewables rather than non-renewables so that our planet stays liveable,” he said, urging joint efforts “to resolve a global issue”.

The Hungarian government has launched an ambitious development plan focusing on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable development, Palkovics said, adding that the social component was based on the country’s “holistic family policy” aimed at reinforcing families and promoting a turnaround in downward demographic tendencies.

The government is “determined to solidify Hungary as a nation based on knowledge and innovation”,