Chambers Global Practice Guides – TMT 2025

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Digital Economy

Key Challenges

On 23 November 2022, Malta published its national strategy for 2022–2027 (dubbed “Digital Malta”) with the aim of positioning Malta as leader in digital transformation built around a vision of establishing digital as the key driving force for transformation. The national strategy underpinned various sectorial digital policies currently in place in Malta including Digital Innovation; eCommerce; and Cyber Security. In accordance with the European Commission's Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) report 2022, Malta ranks sixth out of 27 EU member states. The DESI report also states that since 2019, all Maltese households are reached by Very High Capacity Networks offering speeds of up to 1Gbps. Malta also records good scores on human capital, especially because of the high numbers of ICT graduates (6.6% of graduates in Malta, versus 4.2% in the EU) and performs slightly higher than the EU average in terms of ICT