Have been encountered and have been used long before the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis, not representing at all a buzzword in our society, since these types of activities are believed to be a pivotal solution to a bright future for all individuals, being fully customizable, highly intuitive, and very fast, making them a must, also, for the Post-COVID-19 Era; these activities are believed to empower individuals and organizations at a very high extent in terms of data digitalization and technology, facilitating the process of encoding information, and aiming to increase the lifecycle value of businesses through better use of information, knowledge, data, and digital technology.
Published in Chapter:
Legendary, Life-Changing, and Memorable Benefits of Digitalization to Restart the Economy: Impact of COVID-19 on Global Economic Environment for Sustainable Development
Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) and Arturo Luque González (Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador & Observatorio Euromediterráneo de Espacio Público y Democraca, Ecuador)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5109-0.ch008
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 crisis suddenly, abruptly accentuated both individual and business needs to move at an accelerated rate to digital activities like never before in history of mankind, which led to increased importance of digitalization in terms of use of digital technologies. The post-COVID-19 era seeks to create novel communication patterns and business models capable to ensure new revenue and value-producing benefits and opportunities in accordance to the Sustainable Development Goals by launching tremendous provocations on global economic environment for sustainable development: How can people and entities adapt, implement digitalization in their daily lives, in order to restart the economy? What will the world's digital business transformation roadmap look like, in order to find a balance between individuals' expectations and planet's needs? Will the digital skills transformation enhance the role of human resources in society, or will these new acquired skills create an even larger gap between people than ever before? Is artificial intelligence the future?