{"id":74594,"date":"2025-08-05T12:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=74594"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:51:49","slug":"apec-digital-and-ai-ministers-issue-joint-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=74594","title":{"rendered":"APEC Digital and AI Ministers Issue Joint Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Issued by the APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>Incheon, Republic of Korea, 5 August 2025<\/em>Ministers responsible for telecommunications, information and communications technology (ICT) and digital policy issued a joint statement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apec.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=659cda5df05da94188f4acaae&amp;id=792864d6b0&amp;e=f0773073fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/apec.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D659cda5df05da94188f4acaae%26id%3D792864d6b0%26e%3Df0773073fa&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1754466492968000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1pPF5Z4gtq9XgsB3KF4ImM\">following their meeting in Incheon<\/a>, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reflects the outcomes of the first-ever APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting, chaired by Kyunghoon Bae, Minister of Science and ICT of the Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n<p>It outlines the collective commitment of APEC economies to advance responsible digital transformation and trusted artificial intelligence (AI) development in support of the region\u2019s prosperity and sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<p>The joint statement highlights action in three key areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitating digital and AI innovation to address socio-economic challenges<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing digital connectivity for all<\/li>\n<li>Creating a safe, secure and reliable digital and AI ecosystem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ministers also recognized Korea\u2019s leadership in developing a new APEC AI initiative by the end of 2025 and called for continued momentum beyond to advance the\u00a0APEC Internet and Digital Economy Roadmap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issued by the APEC Digital and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74595,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74594\/revisions\/74595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}