Digital Champion

Extracted Attributes

• Role (EU Context)

  Appointed by EU Member States to promote benefits of an inclusive digital society and advise the European Commission on the Digital Agenda for Europe

• Scope (EU Context)

  Act locally, working with citizens, communities, businesses, governments, and academia

• Activities (EU Context)

  Helping individuals become digital, promoting e-skills in education, fostering e-government services, encouraging entrepreneurship, supporting businesses to embrace new technologies, contributing to research and innovation

• Saudi Arabia's Ambition

  To emerge as a global AI and technology superpower, establishing the nation as a premier Digital Champion

• Saudi Arabia's Strategy

  Vertical integration (developing proprietary foundational models like 'humane chat' and enterprise solutions like 'humane one'), forging a US-Saudi AI Alliance

• Interaction (EU Context)

  Meet with the European Commission at least twice a year for discussion and expansion of grassroots initiatives

• Saudi Arabia's Advantages

  Unique energy advantage, burgeoning Western-educated talent pool

• Key Characteristics (Companies)

  Extreme customer centricity, well-trained talent, digitalized workplaces, modern global cultures, cloud-enabled IT infrastructures, risk-takers with discipline, form partnerships, deploy open platforms

• Broader Definition (Organizational)

  An employee within a business chosen to help lead change, promote digitalization, and influence colleagues to support technology adoption

Timeline

• European Commission regularly interacts with Digital Champions, providing a platform to discuss, compare, and expand grassroots initiatives, with meetings occurring at least twice a year. (Source: Wikipedia)

  Ongoing

• Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, spearheaded by MBS, includes the ambition for the nation to emerge as a global AI and technology superpower and a premier Digital Champion, with Humain playing a key role in addressing regional AI infrastructure deficits. (Source: Document 5a1e1df9-65b8-433e-84c1-1b7d35a217c4)

  Ongoing

Digital Champions

The Digital Champions are appointed by each European Union Member State to help them and the European Commission promote the benefits of an inclusive digital society. The Digital Champions act locally. They work with citizens, communities, businesses, governments, and academia. They do so by helping individuals become digital, by promoting e-skills in education, fostering e-government services, encouraging entrepreneurship, supporting businesses to embrace new technologies and be more competitive, contributing to research and innovation. They also advise the European Commission on the implementation of the Digital Agenda for Europe. The European Commission regularly interact with the Digital Champions and this exchange provides a valuable platform to discuss, compare and expand action at grass-roots level. The Digital Champions meet at least twice a year.

Web Search Results

• The role of a manufacturing digital champion - Made Smarter

  A digital champion is an employee within the business that’s chosen to help lead change, promote digitalisation, and influence their colleagues to support the smooth onboarding of technologies. For instance, they may be a factory floor worker who is well respected and trusted. As they engage with a new robot and show enthusiasm for the change, the rest of the workforce will accept it more openly. [...] A digital champion is arguably the initial advocate of digital implementation – they both want and need digital change to occur. They completely appreciate that, if the change doesn’t happen, they can’t obtain the benefits or accomplish the company’s objectives. They also realise that the company will lose ground to its competitors if it doesn’t make the necessary advancements. Simply put, they’re someone who wants your company to succeed, and someone who supports the decision to move to [...] The digital champion is paramount because they understand the technical and business side of a transformation. They act as the single point of communication between senior management, staff and the suppliers of the digital solution. As the change catalyst, they recognise all the challenges that your team may face, making them primed to support everyone else in implementing new ways of working or using emerging tools.

• [PDF] Sample Digital Champion role description

  support to local adults who want to get online and learn how to use a computer for the first time, or improve their confidence with the basics. Digital Champions work with learners on a one-to-one basis or in a small group. They might support people face to face or remotely (via video calling or telephone). Sessions tend to take place in a public venue such as: a library, wifi enabled café, pub or community centre. Champions might set up a session at a local community centre or sheltered [...] housing scheme or volunteer to support someone else’s class at such a venue. There are lots of different ways to help! Typical tasks for a Digital Champion include: Helping people learn the basics of their device – turning it on, using the mouse and keyboard or changing settings on a tablet or smart phone. Helping people understand how to get online – connecting to a secure wifi network, entering login information, as well as staying safe by keeping login info/passwords secure, recognising [...] Sample Digital Champion role description Being a Digital Champion You don’t have to be an IT whizz to be a Digital Champion – you just need a bit of spare time and enthusiasm to support others to experience the many benefits of the internet and digital technology. It’s a great way of making a real difference to other people. As a Digital Champion you’ll support others to learn the basics of computers and the internet in a relaxed, informal environment. You’ll offer advice, information and

• The role of the Digital Champion - SCVO

  A ‘professional’ Digital Champion is a term we might use when an organisation has created a specific paid post to promote digital inclusion. In addition to helping individuals develop their digital skills and confidence, a professional Digital Champion might also be responsible for creating learning resources, recruiting volunteers, coordinating drop-in surgeries, and running digital classes. [...] The term ‘Digital Champions’ can be used in a variety of different ways, ranging from informal interactions between friends or family members, to specific roles in community organisations. It can be someone helping a parent use video calling on their phone, a support worker helping someone use Google Maps to find their way to an appointment or a council worker showing someone how to pay council tax online. [...] Work-based Digital Champions are people who tend to be more confident in navigating the different platforms being used in the workplace. They help colleagues with digital queries, the same way any of us would help a colleague if they had a question. They aren’t the IT team, they’re just more confident using the tools we all use to do our work and they are there to help us make the best use of them. People who are work-based Digital Champions may have their efforts recognised by their employer

• Digital Champions - Strategy+business

  In designing and implementing this ecosystem, Digital Champions are risk takers with discipline. They insist that their business strategy should determine which technology they adopt, while continually keeping up with digital advances that have the potential to enhance strategy, particularly involving speed, flexibility, customization, and efficiency. [...] Rather than having a “not-invented-here” bias toward homegrown and stand-alone systems, Digital Champions readily form partnerships with outside companies, including vendors and other users of platforms, hardware, and software, to more quickly implement new digital applications without redesigning the wheel. These attributes undoubtedly play a role in their impressive track record as innovators: More than 90 percent of the Digital Champions among our survey respondents said they were planning, [...] To facilitate collaborative partnerships, drawing on the widest number of companies and individuals at low cost, Digital Champions deploy open platforms with low-friction networks that make it easy for participating companies to link in their own customer solutions ecosystems. For example, they might tailor products directly to one another’s customers, cross-branding as if they were one enterprise. These applications can generate huge revenue streams and capture customer loyalty. The survey

• Seven Key Characteristics Of Digital Champion Companies - Forbes

  While many companies are still using manual, inefficient, and tedious collaboration models and decision-making processes — Digital Champions have invested in creating modern, virtual, and digitalized workplaces. As a result, they have built internal credibility by helping to make the lives of their employees easier and more productive. 6. Cloud-Enabled IT Infrastructures [...] Surprisingly, we discovered that only 7% succeed in digitalization and produce superior business performance. We call the 7% “Digital Champions”, and they can be defined by their visions and priorities that evolve by predicting customer behavior. They also have well-trained talent, digital workplaces, and modern global cultures. In effect, every aspect of their business converges at the intersection of data, customers, and technology. [...] While there is no standardized blueprint for digital transformation success, our data shows that Digital Champions share seven characteristics. These characteristics are interconnected and indispensable to anyone looking to catch up or leap ahead of the competition. 1. Extreme Customer Centricity