The world today has been witnessing phenomenal outgrowth in all fields during the past few decades. This augmentation has been largely stimulated by information and communication technologies (ICT). However, the inexorable evolution of technology and global economic development are being pursued at an ever-increasing societal cost with a snowballing potentially negative impact on the environment. Hence, one of the important challenges modern society faces is sustainability. This article attempts to explore the existing body of knowledge to provide a better understanding of the impact of ICT and digital revolutions on global carbon footprint and emissions. It also attempts to explore the presence of environmental sustainability initiatives in e-government programs worldwide. It presents some thoughts about how governments may address sustainability requirements in their e-government programs and enact responsible ICT-enabled transformation.
Digital First - Managing Disruption in the Digital EconomyIOT Collaborative
IOT Collaborative - Digital Innovation – Strategy, Process and Governance
November 1, 2018
Youngjin Yoo
Weatherhead School of Management
Case Western Reserve University
EQUITY MARKET 4.0: A Wisdom Network to crowdcreate a global capital marketWisdom.To
Equity Market 3.0 is a national, finance community of companies, advisers and investors which recreates what people in the equity market do everyday in an online network.
The three primary benefits are:
Deepens the market by facilitating service and capital delivery beyond major companies to SME’s, new ventures and innovation. SME’s are a major contributor to growth and employment and are a priority for government policy in the first world and reducing poverty in the third world.
Expands features and functionality beyond prices to include comprehensive information distribution, facilitate collaboration, manage workflow and execute outcomes.
Integrate countries and markets: A transparent Web 3.0 network transcends traditional distribution channels with a single web application which simply differentiates between people and content in different countries using tags. An Equity Market 3.0 network could service a global community of companies, advisers and investors. Equity Market 4.0 is the integration of Equity Market 3.0 networks in each country to create a global equity market.
Digital Innovations for Sustainable and Inclusive Development Soren Gigler
This presentation lays out a human-centered approach to the digital transformation. It analyses the conditions under which digital technologies can lead to enhancing the economic and human well-being of local and rural communities. The second section of the presentation provide 7 concrete case studies on how blockchain innovations can directly benefit citizens and poor communities in developing countries.
http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/city-life
The Networked Society City Index report continues to explore the correlation between cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development.
As with the previous studies, this index continues to show a strong correlation between ICT maturity of the city and their social, economic and environmental progress. In this report, New York City tops the overall ranking followed by Stockholm, London and Singapore.
The Networked Society City Index aims to develop a comprehensive evaluation of cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development. Through a series of reports we have analyzed 25 urban areas around the world from a city, citizen, and now, business perspective.
Patrik Regårdh from Ericsson’s Networked Society Lab says: "We see the individual – rather than city institutions or businesses – as the drivers of development resulting from ICT maturity. Governments follow by adapting to citizens’ changing behavior, while businesses primarily adopt ICT innovations to increase internal efficiency. More importantly, government decisions help steer the business sector’s ICT development. Therefore, changes in policy, regulation and planning, paired with research and support for taking risks and funding, are some of the key factors for driving progress. These factors are crucial in helping organizations of all sizes to connect, collaborate and compete more effectively."
The world today has been witnessing phenomenal outgrowth in all fields during the past few decades. This augmentation has been largely stimulated by information and communication technologies (ICT). However, the inexorable evolution of technology and global economic development are being pursued at an ever-increasing societal cost with a snowballing potentially negative impact on the environment. Hence, one of the important challenges modern society faces is sustainability. This article attempts to explore the existing body of knowledge to provide a better understanding of the impact of ICT and digital revolutions on global carbon footprint and emissions. It also attempts to explore the presence of environmental sustainability initiatives in e-government programs worldwide. It presents some thoughts about how governments may address sustainability requirements in their e-government programs and enact responsible ICT-enabled transformation.
Digital First - Managing Disruption in the Digital EconomyIOT Collaborative
IOT Collaborative - Digital Innovation – Strategy, Process and Governance
November 1, 2018
Youngjin Yoo
Weatherhead School of Management
Case Western Reserve University
EQUITY MARKET 4.0: A Wisdom Network to crowdcreate a global capital marketWisdom.To
Equity Market 3.0 is a national, finance community of companies, advisers and investors which recreates what people in the equity market do everyday in an online network.
The three primary benefits are:
Deepens the market by facilitating service and capital delivery beyond major companies to SME’s, new ventures and innovation. SME’s are a major contributor to growth and employment and are a priority for government policy in the first world and reducing poverty in the third world.
Expands features and functionality beyond prices to include comprehensive information distribution, facilitate collaboration, manage workflow and execute outcomes.
Integrate countries and markets: A transparent Web 3.0 network transcends traditional distribution channels with a single web application which simply differentiates between people and content in different countries using tags. An Equity Market 3.0 network could service a global community of companies, advisers and investors. Equity Market 4.0 is the integration of Equity Market 3.0 networks in each country to create a global equity market.
Digital Innovations for Sustainable and Inclusive Development Soren Gigler
This presentation lays out a human-centered approach to the digital transformation. It analyses the conditions under which digital technologies can lead to enhancing the economic and human well-being of local and rural communities. The second section of the presentation provide 7 concrete case studies on how blockchain innovations can directly benefit citizens and poor communities in developing countries.
http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/city-life
The Networked Society City Index report continues to explore the correlation between cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development.
As with the previous studies, this index continues to show a strong correlation between ICT maturity of the city and their social, economic and environmental progress. In this report, New York City tops the overall ranking followed by Stockholm, London and Singapore.
The Networked Society City Index aims to develop a comprehensive evaluation of cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development. Through a series of reports we have analyzed 25 urban areas around the world from a city, citizen, and now, business perspective.
Patrik Regårdh from Ericsson’s Networked Society Lab says: "We see the individual – rather than city institutions or businesses – as the drivers of development resulting from ICT maturity. Governments follow by adapting to citizens’ changing behavior, while businesses primarily adopt ICT innovations to increase internal efficiency. More importantly, government decisions help steer the business sector’s ICT development. Therefore, changes in policy, regulation and planning, paired with research and support for taking risks and funding, are some of the key factors for driving progress. These factors are crucial in helping organizations of all sizes to connect, collaborate and compete more effectively."
(PROJEKTURA) Digital Economy for Lider Media 2015Ratko Mutavdzic
Digital Economy Short story on where is digital economy momentum in EU, what are the eky prioritites and what would be the impact of digital economy on the society
Electronic Open and Collaborative Governance - An Overviewsamossummit
An introduction to the electronic open and collaborative governance for the summer school participants, aiming to provide background knowledge.
Euripidis Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Digital innovations -Empowering digital ecosystems and startups Soren Gigler
Presentation about the main programs of the Digital Innovation and Blockchain program at the European Commission to foster digital innovations, innovation ecosystems and enhance the access to finance for digital startups and scale-ups.
e-Government: Thoughts on Leveraging Technology for Organisational Excellence...Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu
Given the size and import of the public sector across Africa's economies, it is clear that market-driven transformation however desirable, will be constrained by public sector alienated from and distrustful of technology. As a consequence, our countries fail to leverage the exponential value of a wholesale embrace of technology as an enabler, multiplier and accelerator of national development.
Johannes Bauer, Director of the Quello Center at Michigan State University, covers various aspects of the digital economy including opportunities and challenges, technological and economic drivers, value creation in the digital economy, harnessing benefits and minimizing risks, and measuring the digital economy.
Sustainable Blockchain and Blockchain for Climate Action Soren Gigler
The presentation focused on the role blockchain can play in supporting the green transition. There is an urgent need to enhance the sustainability of blockchain. At the same time, blockchain offers important and unique opportunities as an enabler to enhance the sustainability across all sectors of the economy and contribute to climate action
Two of the main current challenges faced by society are the growing urbanization and ageing of population. ICTs play a key role helping us addressing these socioeconomic problems which are paramount for our future progress. Firstly, this talk will overview the opportunities and strengths brought forward by ICT democratization in all societal sectors to make cities more age-friendly, sustainable, productive and satisfying environments. On the other hand, it will also review the weaknesses and threats associated to the increasing adoption of ICT to face these societal challenges. For instance, it will review the need to capture and process personal information to offer assistance services and ease decision making in cities, together with the threats to privacy that personal data management may cause. Several European projects facing the challenges of Sustainable and Inclusive Cities will be described in order to illustrate the high potential of this idea. Both their scientific-technological contributions and their economic potential will be overviewed, highlighting the potential of the Silver Economy – the new market opened to address the progressive societal ageing. Secondly, this talk will give further details about three core pillars to make reality this idea of more elderly-friendly ambient assisted cities, namely Internet of Things, Big Data and higher stakeholder participation and collaboration. Through use cases extracted from European projects, examples of novel personal health devices connected to Internet, new ways to correlate and process information in order to enhance decision-making and emerging approaches to make elderly people to have a higher involvement and engagement in aspects related to personal autonomy and their higher societal involvement will be provided. Finally, the talk will conclude exemplifying how Spanish administrations are addressing ageing problems through smart healthcare technologies.
This lecture will analyze the increasingly important topic of assessment and evaluation in e-government. Different models, methodologies and approaches will be presented.
Dimitris Sarantis, Researcher, United Nations University, PT
Closing the Investment Gap for Deep Tech in Europe Soren Gigler
This presentation during the INTABA organised workshop, It describes the market failure in terms of investments in deep tech startups and SMEs in Europe. It provides an overview of the EU's investment program for AI and blockchain to support the early stage and scale-up of highly innovative startups and SMEs.
Maurizio Pilu - Perspectives on the Digital Economy - RCUK grand challenges -...Maurizio Pilu
Maurizio Pilu's presentation at the RC UK Grand Challege Event in Leicester, April 12 2011.
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/grand-challenges/rcuk/rcuk-event.jsp
Algorithmic Culture & Maker Culture; Breaches and Bridges in the Platform Eco...Raúl Tabarés Gutiérrez
During last year’s different platforms have emerged on the Internet and have become common in our everyday living. These new digital companies have succeed in positioning themselves as cultural intermediaries in a growing trend towards the digitization of society favoured by the irruption of different technologies, new forms of value-creating human activities and the decentralization effect that Internet culture helps to create.
In this sense, the growing importance of digital ecosystems in human processes & decisions has nurtured an algorithmic culture that symbolizes our current declining of autonomy in the social sphere. This disruption in the cultural landscape has been supported by the introduction of different “black-boxes” that impede to ascertain what the inner workings of these new socio-technological brokers are.
On the contrary, we can observe how different grassroots initiatives that promote technological appropriation and digital empowerment like the Maker Movement are also becoming globally recognized and institutionally supported. These movements rely on Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Hardware for opening black-boxes and promoting critical thinking about technology in citizenship.
In this contribution we would like to explore the several convergences and divergences that are present in these two different cultures to shed some light in the complicated new techno-realities that have risen. Finally, we conclude with a set of several key guidelines that can help to policy-makers to promote new updated legislations.
Datafication is transforming the industry landscapeEricsson
For decades, digitalization has been transforming how companies and individuals co-ordinate and communicate with one another. Datafication, on the other hand, promises to completely redefine nearly every aspect of our existence as humans.
Datafication is the use of digital technologies to release the knowledge associated with physical objects by decoupling them from the data associated with them. ‘The Impact of Datafication on Strategic Landscapes’ is our first in a series, produced together with The Imperial Colleage of London, investigating the emergence of datafication, and exploring the dramatic impact it is set to have on the economy and broader society.
Open Data … Open Wallonia. The road toOpen Government in Wallonia. Présentation de l'AWT à l'occasion du Séminaire "données publiques" à l'Université de Namur (7 mai 2014)
Personal Footprint Account – degrowth conference 2014 – open space presentationWilli Schroll
WHAT: Open space and interactive workshop in the perspective of foresight –
WHEN: September 4th, 2014 –
WHERE: International degrowth conference #4, Leipzig –
WHO: Willi Schroll, MA, Berlin
Talk at April 10th, 2014 – Agora, Berlin – IoTPeople Berlin
THIS TALK/PRESO IS ONLY COVERING A SMALL FRACTION OF THE STUDY!
Download links for the study:
English: http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/z-punkt-studyconnectedreality2025englsingle
German: http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/connected-reality-2025-einzelseiten-studie-deutsch-zpunkt
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The talk/preso is focussing on two topic fields:
(I) The 'Connected Markets 2025' examples
– to give the audience a glimpse with some first cases of today (weak signals).
(II) 'Challenges'
– with my personal point of view – to give an idea about the huge impact of the upcoming tech wave on economy and society.
-----
Some extracts of the slides of part II in this preso:
CHANCES + RISKS
Chances
Convenience, smartisation of everyday things, Smart Home, Smart City, Smart Mobility ...Business forecast: $ 19 trillion market (Cisco)
Risks
Complexity, security, privacy, business models, job market, economical system challenge ...
SYSTEMIC CHALLENGE
„In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, sustainability supersedes consumerism, cooperation ousts competition“Jeremy Rifkin
ENDANGERED HUMANITY?
In the context of massive technological transformations it is a key challenge in the 21st century to secure humaneness.
Societal debate and participatory process are necessities to find the path to a wishful future.
ONE TRILLION THINGS
Will there be one trillion connected things in 2025?
Soft connectivity scenario – visual tracking; – „cognitive cams“ recognize and track objects and states.
In summary, Malaysia needs to:
1.
Create a dynamic and more competitive ecosystem for its digital economy that embodies changes to its infrastructure, regulations, skills and public finance
2.
Achieve universal, fast, and inexpensive internet connectivity for businesses and households and fix the way it regulates the internet so unfair and damaging business practices can be corrected
3.
Improve human capital through better curriculum and life-long learning opportunities and encourage more vibrant private sector finance so digital entrepreneurs can bring ideas to market
4.
Take measures that will safeguard future tax revenues from the digital economy to reinvest in areas that the economy needs most
The world is being transformed by new technologies, which are redefining customer expectations, enabling businesses to meet these new expectations, and changing
the way people live and work. Digital transformation, as this is commonly called, has immense potential to change consumer lives, create value for business and unlock
broader societal benefits.
The World Economic Forum launched the Digital Transformation Initiative in 2015, in collaboration with Accenture, to serve as the focal point for new opportunities and
themes arising from the latest developments in the digitalization of business and society. It supports the Forum’s broader activity around the theme of the Fourth
Industrial Revolution. Since its inception, the Initiative has analysed the impact of digital transformation across 13 industries and five cross-industry topics, to identify the
key themes that enable the value generated by digitalization to be captured for business and wider society. Drawing on these themes, we have developed a series of
imperatives for business and policy leaders that look to maximize the benefits of digitalization. We have engaged with more than 300 executives (both from leading
global firms and newer technology disruptors), government and policy leaders, and academics.
Every industry has its nuances and contextual differences, but they all share certain inhibitors to change. These include the innovator’s dilemma (the fear of
cannibalizing existing revenue models), low technology adoption rates across organizations, conservative organizational cultures, and regulatory issues. Business and
government leaders should continue to work towards addressing these challenges.
A notable outcome of this work is the development of our distinctive economic framework, which quantifies the impact of digitalization on industry and society. It can be
applied consistently at all levels of business and government to help unlock the estimated $100 trillion of value that digitalization could create over the next decade. We
have already started to leverage this framework for region-specific discussions with some governments.
We are confident that the findings from the Initiative will contribute to improving the state of the world through digital transformation, both for business and wider society.
(PROJEKTURA) Digital Economy for Lider Media 2015Ratko Mutavdzic
Digital Economy Short story on where is digital economy momentum in EU, what are the eky prioritites and what would be the impact of digital economy on the society
Electronic Open and Collaborative Governance - An Overviewsamossummit
An introduction to the electronic open and collaborative governance for the summer school participants, aiming to provide background knowledge.
Euripidis Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Digital innovations -Empowering digital ecosystems and startups Soren Gigler
Presentation about the main programs of the Digital Innovation and Blockchain program at the European Commission to foster digital innovations, innovation ecosystems and enhance the access to finance for digital startups and scale-ups.
e-Government: Thoughts on Leveraging Technology for Organisational Excellence...Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu
Given the size and import of the public sector across Africa's economies, it is clear that market-driven transformation however desirable, will be constrained by public sector alienated from and distrustful of technology. As a consequence, our countries fail to leverage the exponential value of a wholesale embrace of technology as an enabler, multiplier and accelerator of national development.
Johannes Bauer, Director of the Quello Center at Michigan State University, covers various aspects of the digital economy including opportunities and challenges, technological and economic drivers, value creation in the digital economy, harnessing benefits and minimizing risks, and measuring the digital economy.
Sustainable Blockchain and Blockchain for Climate Action Soren Gigler
The presentation focused on the role blockchain can play in supporting the green transition. There is an urgent need to enhance the sustainability of blockchain. At the same time, blockchain offers important and unique opportunities as an enabler to enhance the sustainability across all sectors of the economy and contribute to climate action
Two of the main current challenges faced by society are the growing urbanization and ageing of population. ICTs play a key role helping us addressing these socioeconomic problems which are paramount for our future progress. Firstly, this talk will overview the opportunities and strengths brought forward by ICT democratization in all societal sectors to make cities more age-friendly, sustainable, productive and satisfying environments. On the other hand, it will also review the weaknesses and threats associated to the increasing adoption of ICT to face these societal challenges. For instance, it will review the need to capture and process personal information to offer assistance services and ease decision making in cities, together with the threats to privacy that personal data management may cause. Several European projects facing the challenges of Sustainable and Inclusive Cities will be described in order to illustrate the high potential of this idea. Both their scientific-technological contributions and their economic potential will be overviewed, highlighting the potential of the Silver Economy – the new market opened to address the progressive societal ageing. Secondly, this talk will give further details about three core pillars to make reality this idea of more elderly-friendly ambient assisted cities, namely Internet of Things, Big Data and higher stakeholder participation and collaboration. Through use cases extracted from European projects, examples of novel personal health devices connected to Internet, new ways to correlate and process information in order to enhance decision-making and emerging approaches to make elderly people to have a higher involvement and engagement in aspects related to personal autonomy and their higher societal involvement will be provided. Finally, the talk will conclude exemplifying how Spanish administrations are addressing ageing problems through smart healthcare technologies.
This lecture will analyze the increasingly important topic of assessment and evaluation in e-government. Different models, methodologies and approaches will be presented.
Dimitris Sarantis, Researcher, United Nations University, PT
Closing the Investment Gap for Deep Tech in Europe Soren Gigler
This presentation during the INTABA organised workshop, It describes the market failure in terms of investments in deep tech startups and SMEs in Europe. It provides an overview of the EU's investment program for AI and blockchain to support the early stage and scale-up of highly innovative startups and SMEs.
Maurizio Pilu - Perspectives on the Digital Economy - RCUK grand challenges -...Maurizio Pilu
Maurizio Pilu's presentation at the RC UK Grand Challege Event in Leicester, April 12 2011.
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/grand-challenges/rcuk/rcuk-event.jsp
Algorithmic Culture & Maker Culture; Breaches and Bridges in the Platform Eco...Raúl Tabarés Gutiérrez
During last year’s different platforms have emerged on the Internet and have become common in our everyday living. These new digital companies have succeed in positioning themselves as cultural intermediaries in a growing trend towards the digitization of society favoured by the irruption of different technologies, new forms of value-creating human activities and the decentralization effect that Internet culture helps to create.
In this sense, the growing importance of digital ecosystems in human processes & decisions has nurtured an algorithmic culture that symbolizes our current declining of autonomy in the social sphere. This disruption in the cultural landscape has been supported by the introduction of different “black-boxes” that impede to ascertain what the inner workings of these new socio-technological brokers are.
On the contrary, we can observe how different grassroots initiatives that promote technological appropriation and digital empowerment like the Maker Movement are also becoming globally recognized and institutionally supported. These movements rely on Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Hardware for opening black-boxes and promoting critical thinking about technology in citizenship.
In this contribution we would like to explore the several convergences and divergences that are present in these two different cultures to shed some light in the complicated new techno-realities that have risen. Finally, we conclude with a set of several key guidelines that can help to policy-makers to promote new updated legislations.
Datafication is transforming the industry landscapeEricsson
For decades, digitalization has been transforming how companies and individuals co-ordinate and communicate with one another. Datafication, on the other hand, promises to completely redefine nearly every aspect of our existence as humans.
Datafication is the use of digital technologies to release the knowledge associated with physical objects by decoupling them from the data associated with them. ‘The Impact of Datafication on Strategic Landscapes’ is our first in a series, produced together with The Imperial Colleage of London, investigating the emergence of datafication, and exploring the dramatic impact it is set to have on the economy and broader society.
Open Data … Open Wallonia. The road toOpen Government in Wallonia. Présentation de l'AWT à l'occasion du Séminaire "données publiques" à l'Université de Namur (7 mai 2014)
Personal Footprint Account – degrowth conference 2014 – open space presentationWilli Schroll
WHAT: Open space and interactive workshop in the perspective of foresight –
WHEN: September 4th, 2014 –
WHERE: International degrowth conference #4, Leipzig –
WHO: Willi Schroll, MA, Berlin
Talk at April 10th, 2014 – Agora, Berlin – IoTPeople Berlin
THIS TALK/PRESO IS ONLY COVERING A SMALL FRACTION OF THE STUDY!
Download links for the study:
English: http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/z-punkt-studyconnectedreality2025englsingle
German: http://de.slideshare.net/Z_punkt/connected-reality-2025-einzelseiten-studie-deutsch-zpunkt
-----
The talk/preso is focussing on two topic fields:
(I) The 'Connected Markets 2025' examples
– to give the audience a glimpse with some first cases of today (weak signals).
(II) 'Challenges'
– with my personal point of view – to give an idea about the huge impact of the upcoming tech wave on economy and society.
-----
Some extracts of the slides of part II in this preso:
CHANCES + RISKS
Chances
Convenience, smartisation of everyday things, Smart Home, Smart City, Smart Mobility ...Business forecast: $ 19 trillion market (Cisco)
Risks
Complexity, security, privacy, business models, job market, economical system challenge ...
SYSTEMIC CHALLENGE
„In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, sustainability supersedes consumerism, cooperation ousts competition“Jeremy Rifkin
ENDANGERED HUMANITY?
In the context of massive technological transformations it is a key challenge in the 21st century to secure humaneness.
Societal debate and participatory process are necessities to find the path to a wishful future.
ONE TRILLION THINGS
Will there be one trillion connected things in 2025?
Soft connectivity scenario – visual tracking; – „cognitive cams“ recognize and track objects and states.
In summary, Malaysia needs to:
1.
Create a dynamic and more competitive ecosystem for its digital economy that embodies changes to its infrastructure, regulations, skills and public finance
2.
Achieve universal, fast, and inexpensive internet connectivity for businesses and households and fix the way it regulates the internet so unfair and damaging business practices can be corrected
3.
Improve human capital through better curriculum and life-long learning opportunities and encourage more vibrant private sector finance so digital entrepreneurs can bring ideas to market
4.
Take measures that will safeguard future tax revenues from the digital economy to reinvest in areas that the economy needs most
The world is being transformed by new technologies, which are redefining customer expectations, enabling businesses to meet these new expectations, and changing
the way people live and work. Digital transformation, as this is commonly called, has immense potential to change consumer lives, create value for business and unlock
broader societal benefits.
The World Economic Forum launched the Digital Transformation Initiative in 2015, in collaboration with Accenture, to serve as the focal point for new opportunities and
themes arising from the latest developments in the digitalization of business and society. It supports the Forum’s broader activity around the theme of the Fourth
Industrial Revolution. Since its inception, the Initiative has analysed the impact of digital transformation across 13 industries and five cross-industry topics, to identify the
key themes that enable the value generated by digitalization to be captured for business and wider society. Drawing on these themes, we have developed a series of
imperatives for business and policy leaders that look to maximize the benefits of digitalization. We have engaged with more than 300 executives (both from leading
global firms and newer technology disruptors), government and policy leaders, and academics.
Every industry has its nuances and contextual differences, but they all share certain inhibitors to change. These include the innovator’s dilemma (the fear of
cannibalizing existing revenue models), low technology adoption rates across organizations, conservative organizational cultures, and regulatory issues. Business and
government leaders should continue to work towards addressing these challenges.
A notable outcome of this work is the development of our distinctive economic framework, which quantifies the impact of digitalization on industry and society. It can be
applied consistently at all levels of business and government to help unlock the estimated $100 trillion of value that digitalization could create over the next decade. We
have already started to leverage this framework for region-specific discussions with some governments.
We are confident that the findings from the Initiative will contribute to improving the state of the world through digital transformation, both for business and wider society.
Dti Telecommunications Industry white paperMyles Freedman
De Wet Bisschoff - MD Communications Media Technology Africa, Accenture has supplied this white paper to explain about the Digital Transformation Initiative
White Paper: Understanding the Networked Society – new logics for an age of e...Ericsson
Technology has the potential to transform how we organize our lives, businesses and societies. But if the era we are now entering is to be more inclusive, equitable and empowering, we must start by examining the fundamentally different nature of a physical world fueled by digital connectivity.
Digital as an enabler for climate actionSoren Gigler
Digital innovations are key enablers for climate action and sustainability. the presentation provides an overview of the EU's program on the digital and green transformation and provides recommendations on how to leverage the power of digital innovations to address the challenges of climate change.
As in the real world, the digital economy has also thrown up its share of shifting buzzwords. From ‘e-Commerce’ and ‘dot.com’ at the turn of the century, the last couple of years have thrown up ‘ICT’ as the all encompassing technology and for business the newest buzz is undoubtedly ‘outsourcing’. Rarely has a single trend impacted global business and industry these last few years as much as outsourcing or ‘off-shoring’ as it is referred to in the US. Coming along with the compulsions of globalisation mandated by the WTO agreements it has helped develop new markets, improved bottom lines, expanded the range of goods and services and pulled the planet together into a tighter-knit community. This opportunity of outsourcing from the perspective of developing economies is ICT services export.
Background note for Foundation Seminar Series 2016
The impact of digitalisation on work:
Building up national agendas for better implementation of digital changes
Perspectives on e-Business (Costas Andropoulos, European Commission, DG Enter...Danny Gaethofs
Perspectives on e-Business.
Presentation from Costas Andropoulos, European Commission, DG Enterprise, given on the 4th CEN Conference on e-invoicing from 18 June 2009 in Brussel.
The relative utility approach for stimulating ICT acceptance: profiling the n...ePractice.eu
Authors: Pieter Verdegem and Verhoest Pascal
As more people are online, it becomes more likely that the remaining fraction of non-adopters is either hard to convince, under-skilled or simply lacking the financial resources to afford a connection. In view of this problem, this paper proposes a policy approach to increase personal computer and internet acceptance in collaboration with the industry.
HePIS is the only member of CEPIS (Council of European Professionals Informatics Societies) and IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) in Greece, representing the country’s ICT professionals and promoting their interests at a Global level.
The world of search engine optimization (SEO) is buzzing with discussions after Google confirmed that around 2,500 leaked internal documents related to its Search feature are indeed authentic. The revelation has sparked significant concerns within the SEO community. The leaked documents were initially reported by SEO experts Rand Fishkin and Mike King, igniting widespread analysis and discourse. For More Info:- https://news.arihantwebtech.com/search-disrupted-googles-leaked-documents-rock-the-seo-world/
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Sustainability has become an increasingly critical topic as the world recognizes the need to protect our planet and its resources for future generations. Sustainability means meeting our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It involves long-term planning and consideration of the consequences of our actions. The goal is to create strategies that ensure the long-term viability of People, Planet, and Profit.
Leading companies such as Nike, Toyota, and Siemens are prioritizing sustainable innovation in their business models, setting an example for others to follow. In this Sustainability training presentation, you will learn key concepts, principles, and practices of sustainability applicable across industries. This training aims to create awareness and educate employees, senior executives, consultants, and other key stakeholders, including investors, policymakers, and supply chain partners, on the importance and implementation of sustainability.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles and concepts that form the foundation of sustainability within corporate environments.
2. Explore the sustainability implementation model, focusing on effective measures and reporting strategies to track and communicate sustainability efforts.
3. Identify and define best practices and critical success factors essential for achieving sustainability goals within organizations.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction and Key Concepts of Sustainability
2. Principles and Practices of Sustainability
3. Measures and Reporting in Sustainability
4. Sustainability Implementation & Best Practices
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2. Origin of DBE is to boost SMEs
• Digital Business Ecosystems was triggered by the initiative Go Digital by EC n 2001
aimed at boosting ICT adoption by European SMEs. ICT is one of the major contributors
to economic growth and economic efficiency.
• 20 million SMEs in the EU25, 99% of all European companies by number and 50% of
European GDP,
• the Lisbon Strategy’s call (COM, 2004): Public and private information and
communication technologies contributed nearly 50% of EU productivity growth between
2000 and 2004” (EC, 2007); and “European productivity growth could be significantly
accelerated if organisations made more and better use of ICT in their organisations and
production processes”
• in 2006 the ICT sector added 5.3% value to EU GDP and 3.6% of EU employment. It also
accounted for 25% of total EU research in business (EC, 2006).
• Crucial for the economic development is not only the adoption of ICT, but also the
diffused capacity to master ICT technologies. Local ICT industry and skill is an
instrument of autonomy and sovereignty and provides the capacity to develop and
adapt ICT to local needs.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
3. Digital representation with ICT
ICT is an instrument of economic inclusion in the knowledge economy
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strengthening the democratic processes upon which we are building the knowledge
society.
ICT-based solutions and models support a participative society in which public and
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private organisations, professionals and individuals compete, interact, and collaborate for
their own benefit and for the benefit of the organisations, teams, ecosystems and/or
communities they belong to
the value of ICT adoption derives from its potential to exploit and integrate
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technological networking, knowledge networking, and socio-economic networking,
enabling the dynamic creation of new connections, processes and cooperation between
economic actors.
By extending the networking paradigm to the knowledge and social layers, the
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knowledge, the processes, and the economic activities working in cooperation and
competition could be conceptualised as the organisms of an ecosystem by applying
the ecosystem metaphor to their digital representation.
Digital business ecosystems are designed to evolve under the pressure of economic
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forces and to adapt to local conditions. Adaptation and evolution are partly achieved
by embedding specifically designed evolutionary mechanisms into their architecture and
their structure, and partly through the participation of local stakeholders in the process of
their development.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
4. Interventions optimal at the regional level
• SMEs are heavily networked in a web of business and social links with their suppliers,
clients, and business partners distributed at all geographical scales. These networks can
be physical and logistical or virtual, they can be local or global, or a combination of all of
the above. Companies of all sizes benefit from network effects,
• Direct investments—in a necessarily limited number of individual SMEs—can achieve
only limited results. This is especially true when favourable conditions for business are not
present. Public sector intervention should be aimed at creating favourable
conditions for business and ecosystems of innovation
The optimum scale of intervention was judged to be at the regional level, where a
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multi-stakeholder process of policy development and implementation was likely to be
more effective.
• The policy to support SMEs shifted from an individual approach to an approach focused
on the context, aimed at building environments favourable to SMEs’ business and their
networking, which set three priorities:
1. promote a favourable environment and framework conditions for electronic
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business and entrepreneurship
2. facilitate the take-up of electronic business
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3. contribute to providing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills.
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• the integrated approach stresses the creation of an environment, a business ecosystem,
and the need for IT skills.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
5. The Digital Business Ecosystem
• The synthesis of the concept of Digital Business Ecosystem emerged in 2002 by adding
“digital” in front of Moore’s (1996) “business ecosystem”
“socio-economic development catalysed by ICTs” emphasises the coevolution
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between the business ecosystem and its partial digital representation: the digital
ecosystem.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
6. The term “unpacked” (Fig. 2)
Digital (ecosystem): the technical infrastructure, based on a P2P distributed
software technology that transports, finds, and connects services and information over
Internet links enabling networked transactions, and the distribution of all the digital
‘objects’ present within the infrastructure. Such ‘organisms of the digital world’ encompass
any useful digital representations expressed by languages (formal or natural) that can be
interpreted and processed (by computer software and/or humans), e.g. software
applications, services, knowledge, taxonomies, folksonomies, ontologies, descriptions of
skills, reputation and trust relationships, training modules, contractual frameworks, laws.
Business (ecosystem): “An economic community supported by a foundation of
interacting organizations and individuals—the ‘organisms of the business world’.
This economic community produces goods and services of value to customers, who
themselves are members of the ecosystem”. (Moore, 1996) A wealthy ecosystem sees a
balance between cooperation and competition in a dynamic free market.
Ecosystem: a biological metaphor that highlights the interdependence of all actors in
the business environment, who “coevolve their capabilities and roles” (Moore, 1996).
Also, in the case of Digital Business Ecosystem, an isomorphic model between biological
behaviour and the behaviour of the software, based on theoretical computer science
implications and leading to an evolutionary, self-organising, and self-optimising
environment (Evolutionary Environemnt or EvE).
Blomberg Consulting 2008
8. ”Business” includes public and non-profit
• Bringing these three terms together has been effective in broadening the appeal of the
approach to a wide range of stakeholders from academia, industry, business, and policy-
making.
It is especially challenging to show how these three terms necessarily imply some
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characteristics of the technology and not others, or how they imply some policy
and governance choices and not others.
research conducted in the context of the DBE IP has highlighted the importance of
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Regional Catalysts and other intermediary actors such as professional
associations or volunteer open source communities. This has led to the broadening
of the conceptualisation of the term ‘business’.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
9. Networks
Digital Ecosystems were made possible by the convergence of three networks: ICT
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networks, social networks, and knowledge networks.
The networked connections enabled by the Internet and the World Wide Web grew
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along the links of the pre-existing and underlying social, professional, collaboration, and
business networks between governments, researchers, businesses, companies, and
friends. Computing environments likewise spilled over from the single computer to the
local area network (LAN) at first, and eventually to the global Internet. Networked
computers motivated the development of distributed architectures and shared
resources, culminating in the peer-to-peer (P2P) model. The faster and more
pervasive communications enabled by the technology reinforced the already existing
trend from a material economy based on manufacturing toward a service economy
based on knowledge production and distributed value chains.
In information and communication technologies often a group of applications
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complementing a specific product or platform is considered to form a “digital
ecosystem”, the ICT and media companies form a “digital ecosystem community”.
• In order for “large-scale” concepts such a Information Society to make sense in the
context of economic development, they needed to be operationalised in terms of concepts
• The answer has been, in part, to identify ICT adoption and social networking with a
process rather than an event. This required the integration of the technological
approach with a social science perspective, and the introduction of a holistic view
of the resulting techno-social and economic system inspired by the multi-scalar
biological ecosystem metaphor.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
10. Scale and Topology
• economic development, industrial districts, and more recently technology clusters tend to
be co-located geographically.
in the Digital Ecosystems initiative the efficiency gains are brought by shared physical
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infrastructures, lower transportation costs, etc, but also regards social
constructivist processes as an important factor in strengthening this dynamic.
digital ecosystems are seen as even more effective at the regional rather than at the
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national or international scale.
The Digital Ecosystems initiative aims at helping local economic actors become
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active players in globalisation, ‘valorising’ their local culture and vocations and enabling
them to interact and create value networks at the global level. This approach,
“glocalization”, is being considered a successful strategy of globalisation that preserves
regional growth and
the architecture of globalisation is ultimately important for its sustainability: A “network of
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digital business ecosystems” distributed over different geographical regions and over
different business domains/industry sectors.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
11. Two main different structures
The “keystone” model by Moore (1996): the ecosystem is dominated by a large firm that
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is surrounded by a large number of small suppliers. This model works well when the
central firm is healthy, but represents a significant weakness for the economy of the
region when when the dominant economic actor experiences economic difficulties. This
model also matches the economic structure of the USA where there is a predominant
number of large enterprises at the center of large value networks of suppliers
The model of business ecosystem developed in Europe is less structured and more
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dynamic; it is composed of mainly small and medium firms but can accommodate also
large firms; all actors complement one another, leading to a more dynamic version of the
division of labour and organised along one-dimensional value chains and two-dimensional
value networks (Corallo, 2007). This model is particularly well-adapted for the service
and the knowledge industries, where it is easier for small firms to reinvent themselves.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
12. Innovation, Openness, and Creative Destruction
• The conceptualisation of digital ecosystems is itself emergent. It tries to find a balance between “old”
theories of stagnation brought by oligopolies (Steindl, 1990), Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2003)
and “Crowdsourcing”, Schumpeter’s (1942) creative distruction., new institutional and
transaction costs, the economics of sharing and community currencies.
Most importantly, it strives to remain open to new ideas coming from research and academia as well
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as from business and development experience. It is a body of knowledge on innovation that constantly
innovates itself with new ideas and new points of view.
• A greater openness and a multi-stakeholder approach between academia, business, and local
government implies a greater emphasis on a collaborative “sense-making” process for analysing the
priorities of a particular region and for devising appropriate development strategies.
socio-economic growth depends on innovation, and innovation is largely dependent on an open
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flow of ideas (Lessig 2002). “spending” ideas are easier to implement in research environments
than in business environments.
the balance that seems to work in business environments is based on a layered approach:
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combining an open source shared middleware infrastructure with software services, models and
information that compete on the revenue models (which can vary from proprietary to shared or free).
• An open source ecosystem-oriented architecture provides, a distributed middleware that acts as a new
ICT commons, that lowers the cost of ICT adoption and maximises the reuse of models.
The Digital Ecosystem could represent a new innovation commons tailored on the needs of
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SMEs, enabling business networking, cooperation, knowledge flows, and fostering creativity
and growth.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
13. Structural Coupling between the Business
and Digital Ecosystems (Fig. 3)
• An important aspect of autopoiesis is its radical relativism, which is inescapable and
manifests itself as structural coupling: a form of mutual and symmetrical interdependence
between two entities that, at any point in time, is determined by each entity’s previous
structure whilst being triggered by the other. Structural coupling is a form of
interdependence between two actors or entities that satisfies the criterion of structural
determinism mutually and symmetrically..
• These ideas acquire greater relevance when we consider that Digital Ecosystems include
digital computable representations of both the micro-economic and the macro-economic
aspects of the business ecosystem.
The digital ecosystem provides representations of the business ecosystem, which
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are used for search and discovery, for aggregating and recommending services, for
reorganising value chains, and for recommending potentially cooperating business
partners.
• The digital ecosystem influences the structure of the enterprises and of their social and
business networks, whilst the business ecosystem modifies the structure of the
“organisms” of the digital ecosystem.
The digital ecosystem and the business ecosystem, when they are viable, are
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structurally coupled and co-evolve forming a dynamic innovation ecosystem, as
shown in Fig. 3.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
15. Structural Principles of Digital Ecosystems
• Since the digital ecosystem is structurally coupled to the socio-economic system of its
users, its architectural design depends on the socio-economic properties to be
facilitated or enabled.
• Technologies and paradigms that enable the participation of SMEs and innovators in the
knowledge-based economy, integrating them within local/regional/global socio-economic
ecosystems and that enact unstructured dynamic business clustering to achieve greater
competitiveness in the global economy.
the concept was further developed into the peer production of a ‘digital nervous
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system’ that supports a participative society in which public and private organisations,
professionals and individuals compete, interact, and collaborate for their own benefit and
for the benefit of the organisations, teams, ecosystems and/or communities they belong
to, in order to enable the participation of all players in the knowledge economy and in the
knowledge society, and that empowers the creativity, the potentialities, the capacity, and
the dynamic interactions (the relationships and the cooperation/competition) between all
the economic players.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
16. Structural Principles of Digital Ecosystems
Some principles of the ecosystem architecture are general, whilst others depend on the policy aims
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or are specific to the structure of the local economy:
No single point of failure or control
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Digital ecosystems should not be dependent upon any single instance or actor
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Equal opportunity of access for all
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Scalability and robustness
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These principles imply a fully decentralised architecture; the design of a P2P structure that is
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robust, scalable, self-organising and self-balancing and that embeds scale-free networks and mesh
topology dynamics.
Such networks do resemble the behaviours of social networks where node formation and
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dispersion is a function of activity and feedback.
Ability to evolve, differentiate, and self-organise constantly
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Activate and support self-reinforcing production and process networks
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• The above are the basic mechanisms of an autopoietic system exhibited by living organisms and in
natural ecosystems, but also by economic ecosystems.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
17. Structural Principles of Digital Ecosystems
The objective is to produce a dynamic ecosystem of innovation; to catalyse dynamic and remote
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collaboration and interaction between human and digital entities and systems in various structured and
unstructured organisational settings, such as collaborative working environments composed of
complex heterogeneous human and digital devices and systems. The ability to implement the
production and the reorganisation mechanisms is crucial. Enabling the digital organisms, their
networks and the whole system to exhibit mechanisms like self-organisation, selection, mutation,
adaptation, and evolution brings the concept of ecosystem beyond a simple metaphor.
• Capability to enable global solutions that adapt to local or domain specific needs
• Global solutions that emerge from local and sectoral inputs
• Local autonomy
Economic activities cannot help but be related to local cultures and regulations. The ability to
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produce solutions which operate in a global market, but are adapted to the local needs and to the local
business and culture, is a competitive advantage.
This structure should be able to adapt to different societal environments, which are constantly
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changing. It must embed mechanisms that enable adaptation and evolution.
We do not have a single ecosystem, but several local ecosystems produced by the adaptation
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to local conditions. Just considering the services or the business models, this means that in some
ecosystems new services will appear, in others the same services will be modified to be adapted to
local conditions, regulations, business models, in yet others the services will disappear from lack of
use. Solutions that need to be developed on a European scale could have sector-specific
implementations that can be adapted and tuned according to local customs. Local SMEs could
provide a local support infrastructure to implement these solutions in their business
operations.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
18. The Representations that “Populate”
Digital Ecosystems
• The digital ecosystem is the ICT infrastructure designed to support economic activities, which contains
the socially-constructed representations of the business ecosystem; it is essentially composed by:
the knowledge that expresses different socially-constructed partial interpretations and views of the
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economy and which is represented through a variety of continuously evolving (natural and formal)
languages and protocols.
the architectural infrastructure that enables the desired “autopoietic” mechanisms and manages the
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distributed and pervasive storage of such knowledge, as well as the tools enacting the formalisation
and the “processing” of this persistent knowledge
• We can see that digital ecosystems are similar to natural ecosystems, but instead of being populated
by biological organism they are populated by fragments of knowledge: these are analogous to memes
that could be computed, expressed in formal or natural languages, digitised and “living” and
propagating through the network
• The ecosystem is an environment with a ‘life support’ architecture designed to enable the ‘life’ of its
‘digital organisms’. The mechanisms embedded within the digital ecosystem, like a (collective) brain,
operate on such languages and protocols. The digital ecosystem in its evolution will acquire more
services and will be able to include more mechanisms of interpretation of knowledge (‘introspection’),
becoming more intelligent and providing more support to the business ecosystem.
• The digital ecosystem embeds evolutionary mechanisms that support the evolution and the adaptation
of the languages that populate it (in both intentional an extensional representations). This approach is
fundamentally an extension and a conceptualisation of the evolution of the Internet and of the Web.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
22. The multidisciplinarity of Digital Ecosystems research
A vision of digital ecosystems: distributed cognitive systems, engineered to embed
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mechanisms of evolution and adaptation to local needs and cultures, whose
content is democratically and socially constructed, and that enable the economic
participation of small producers of knowledge and services
research in ICT technologies and social science is required to improve the processes
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and operations of public and private organisations and to catalyse dynamic and remote
collaboration and interaction between human and digital entities
Multidisciplinary research will enable the sharing of knowledge and practices and the
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modelling of micro- and macro-economic contexts
• The Digital Business Ecosystems research initiative requires the engagement of a
research community composed of computer scientists, social scientists, linguists,
epistemologists, economists, political scientists, system theorists, cognitive
scientists, biologists, physicists, and mathematicians
The ecosystem approach facilitates the operationalisation of regional policies in
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support of SMEs that are not based on direct subsidies in favour of individual SMEs but
are directed towards the establishment of environmental and structural conditions
that empower SMEs, communities, and individuals to participate in dynamic networked
global co-operative business and value chains.
Blomberg Consulting 2008
23. Research Areas
New Value Systems and Business Models
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Evolutionary and Adaptive Software Systems
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Natural and Formal Languages
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The Mathematical Structure of Logic as a Bridge between Biology
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and Software.
• Dynamic P2P Architectures and Autopoietic Networks.
• The Evolution of Digital Ecosystems towards Distributed Cognitive
Systems.
• Who Will Run the Digital Business Ecosystems? Who are the
stakeholders? What is the power balance? What are the rules?
Who sets the rules? How can the local rules of the digital
ecosystems vary between ecosystems, while still allowing global
interaction among ecosystems? How can we build trust? Who is
accountable? How do we go about developing a governance
framework? How do we bootstrap and then preserve the
autopoietic properties of digital ecosystems?
Blomberg Consulting 2008