The digital divide in light of sustainable development: An approach through advanced machine learning techniques

Nuchera, Antonio Hidalgo; Gabaly, Samuel; Morales-Alonso, Gustavo; Urueña, Alberto

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119754

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“…Sustainable development is a key challenge of our times. Whereas the first concerns about sustainability were raised in the 1970s via the Rome Club (Hidalgo, Gabaly, Morales‐Alonso, & Urueña, 2020; Sakalauskas, 2010), the uptake of the sustainability concept can be traced back to the increasing evidence on global environmental risks such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, and their impacts on complex, social‐ecological systems (Geissdoerfer, Savaget, Bocken, & Hultink, 2017; Ostrom, 2009). Institutions, policy makers, and business organizations are key players and need to cooperate with society in order to harness human initiative and energies to reach sustainable development goals.…”

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Building responses to sustainable development challenges: A multistakeholder collaboration framework and application to climate change

2020

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The affirmation of open innovation and collaborative systems is enabling unprecedented opportunities to create business value while facilitating multistakeholder conversation on sustainability issues. In particular, platform‐based models are emerging as organization archetypes able to facilitate cooperative dynamics among industrial actors, policy makers, academicians, scientists, and citizens. In this article, we use interdisciplinary business management and collaborative innovation literature to build the conceptual framework of a multisided platform as a collaboration environment gathering actors willing to define responses to sustainable development challenges. We present five dimensions or “genes,” that is, the focus and strategic intent or orientation of the platform (what), the participating sides, actors and groups (who), the actions, flows and coordination mechanisms (how), and the value drivers, benefits and externalities (why), and the rules regulating the affiliation and interaction processes (governance). We also present and discuss 30 subtopics or management items that are associated with the five dimensions defined. We then apply the conceptual model to analyze a case in the climate change endeavor and to show how competitive and cooperative dynamics can be virtuously integrated to provide individual‐ and company‐driven responses to a timely socioenvironmental issue. The article provides a new perspective on collaboration to enhance social development, and it offers theoretical and practitioner insights for a broad interdisciplinary audience including scholars, practitioners, business, and platform managers.

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Building responses to sustainable development challenges: A multistakeholder collaboration framework and application to climate change

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“…However, these digital and technological advances have neither equally nor equitably permeated all layers of society across the globe, further limelighting existing 'digital divides' [3,4]. As such, digital divides are a global wicked problem and threaten to become the new face of inequality due to their potentially detrimental effects on the Sustainable Development Agenda [5,6].…”

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Is Europe prepared to go digital? Making the case for developing digital capacity: an exploratory analysis of Eurostat survey data

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Digital divides are globally recognised as a wicked problem that threatens to become the new face of inequality. They are formed by discrepancies in Internet access, digital skills, and tangible outcomes (e.g. health, economic) between populations. Previous studies indicated that Europe has an average Internet access rate of 90%, yet rarely specify for different demographics and does not report on the presence of digital skills. This exploratory analysis used the 2019 community survey on ICT usage in households and by individuals from Eurostat, which is a sample of the population aged 16-74 on Internet access and digital skills. The cross-country comparative analysis includes EEA and Switzerland. Data was collected between January and August 2019 and analysed between April and May 2021. Large differences in Internet access were observed (75-98%), especially between North-Western (94-98%) and South-Eastern Europe (75-87%). Low age, high education levels, employment, and living in an urban environment appear to positively influence the development of higher digital skills. The cross-country analysis exhibits a positive correlation between high capital stock and income/earnings and the digital skills development, while showing that the internet-access price bears marginal influence over digital literacy levels. The findings suggest Europe is current unable to host a sustainable digital society without exacerbating cross-country inequalities. Investment in building digital capacity in the general population should be the primary objective of European countries to ensure they can benefit maximally from the advancements of the Digital Era.

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“…The aspect of collaboration, in turn, might lead to more willing adoption of SCS on the consumers' part [Malchenko, Smirnova, 2019]. From the practitioner's perspective, the digital divide might be considered critical from the perspective of sustainable development goals [Hidalgo et al, 2020], such as goal No. 11 Sustainable cities and communities, No.…”

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From digital divide to consumer adoption of smart city solutions: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis

Malchenko¹

2020

Vestnik SPbSU. Management

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The research dedicated to the digital divide has been on the rise over the last three decades, although the individual level of such a phenomenon remains underexplored. This is in line with the citizen-centric trend noted in the research pertaining to consumer reluctance to adopt digital innovations aimed to improve the quality of life as part of smart city solutions. According to studies, consumer participation in development and modification of smart city solutions, for which a city provides the required access and infrastructure, tends to augment their value for consumers thereby boosting their willingness to accept those smart city solutions. By intertwining these research streams, the article explores the factors determining the individual level of digital divide which relates to consumer adoption of smart city solutions through the bibliometric and systematic literature review analysis. The paper aims to propose the antecedents and factors of consumer adoption of smart city solutions based on Motivation, Opportunity, Ability framework underlying the digital divide phenomenon. The results revealed the factors related to motivation, cognition and competence which are to be considered conjointly rather than step-wise. Due to the multifaceted nature of smart city solutions, motivation is triggered by various factors discussed by behavioural, innovation diffusion and technology acceptance theories. By definition, smart city solutions derive from the extant solutions of urban challenges. Hence, competence is related to the previous experience, whereas cognition and willingness to innovate refer to the intention to adopt novel smart city solutions. Theoretically, the study provides propositions to further empirical research in the consumer smart city solutions adoption field. Managerially, it presents the factors to be considered prior to launching smart city solutions.

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The digital divide in light of sustainable development: An approach through advanced machine learning techniques

Cited by 89 publications

References 15 publications

Building responses to sustainable development challenges: A multistakeholder collaboration framework and application to climate change

Building responses to sustainable development challenges: A multistakeholder collaboration framework and application to climate change

Is Europe prepared to go digital? Making the case for developing digital capacity: an exploratory analysis of Eurostat survey data

From digital divide to consumer adoption of smart city solutions: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis

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