The Impact of Digital Infrastructure on the Sustainable Development Goals: A Study for Selected Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Zaballos, Antonio García; Rodríguez, Enrique Iglesias; Adamowicz, Alejandro

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“…The literature review performed in this work has unveiled that existing studies concerning digitalization in agriculture and rural areas do not provide an overall picture concerning actual and potential outcomes. In this regard, while other works investigate a limited set of plausible outcomes of digitalization, this work proposes a more comprehensive exploration of digital systems, while attempting to classify their impact [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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“…that can also negatively affect sustainable food production. Considering these concerns, reports [6,32,33] suggest that the digitalization process can contribute to both agriculture (e.g., contributing to efficient use of resources) and rural communities (e.g., defining new and enriched services) sectors. At the same time, it is also stated that digitalization can contribute to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in rural areas, the 17 interlinked goals such as "no poverty", "zero hunger", and "climate action" [31,34].…”

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“…What seems to be missing is a more comprehensive analysis that proposes a taxonomy of the impacts due to the introduction and use of digital technologies. There are indeed a few and recent attempts in the literature aiming at shedding some light on the impacts of digital technologies [4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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The literature about digitalization in agriculture and rural areas is vast and sectorial at the same time. Both international political institutions and practitioners are interested in promoting digital technology, indicating and describing potential benefits and risks. Meanwhile, academics analyze the actual and possible impacts of digital technologies by using case studies. However, the extensive literature makes it challenging to derive a comprehensive synthesis of the possible impacts that digital technologies are and might generate in the rural domains. In the given context, the present work aims at contributing to the construction of a framework providing a first classification of the digital technologies’ impacts to use in both research and a political agenda.

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“…This raises the gap problem in achieving SDGs because of different approaches to constructing digital architectures for smart cities or smart homes in countries. Digital technologies are indispensable tools to eliminate gap within regions and cities with respect to the achievement of the SDGs (Johnson 2018 ; García Zaballos et al 2019 ). At the beginning of the decisive decade for people and the planet while the window of opportunity is closing fast UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “We must connect the dots across all that we do—as individuals, civic groups, corporations, municipalities and the Member States of the United Nations—and truly embrace the principles of inclusion and sustainability” (Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 ).…”

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Sociological modeling of smart city with the implementation of UN sustainable development goals

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The COVID-19 pandemic before mass vaccination can be restrained only by the limitation of contacts between people, which makes the digital economy a key condition for survival. More than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and many cities have already transformed into “smart” digital/virtual hubs. Digital services ensure city life safe without an economy lockout and unemployment. Urban society strives to be safe, sustainable, well-being, and healthy. We set the task to construct a hybrid sociological and technological concept of a smart city with matched solutions, complementary to each other. Our modeling with the elaborated digital architectures and with the bionic solution for ensuring sufficient data governance showed that a smart city in comparison with the traditional city is tightly interconnected inside like a social “organism”. Society has entered a decisive decade during which the world will change by moving closer towards SDGs targets 2030 as well as by the transformation of cities and their digital infrastructures. It is important to recognize the large vector of sociological transformation as smart cities are just a transition phase to human-centered personal space or smart home. The “atomization” of the world urban population raises the gap problem in achieving SDGs because of different approaches to constructing digital architectures for smart cities or smart homes in countries. The strategy of creating smart cities should bring each citizen closer to SDGs at the individual level, laying in the personal space the principles of sustainable development and wellness of personality.

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“…This raises the gap problem in achieving SDGs because of different approaches to constructing digital architectures for smart cities or smart homes in countries. Digital technologies are indispensable tools to eliminate gap within regions and cities with respect to achievement of the SDGs (Johnson 2018;García Zaballos 2019). At the beginning of the decisive decade for people and the planet while the window of opportunity is closing fast UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: "We must connect the dots across all that we do -as individuals, civic groups, corporations, municipalities and the Member States of the United Nations -and truly embrace the principles of inclusion and sustainability" (Global Sustainable Development Report 2019).…”

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Sociological Modeling of Smart City with the implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals

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The COVID-19 pandemic before mass vaccination can be restrained only by the limitation of contacts between people, which makes the digital economy a key condition for survival. More than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and many cities have already transformed into “smart” digital / virtual habs. Digital services make city life safe without an economy lockout and unemployment. Urban society strives to be safe, sustainable, well-being, and healthy. We set the task to construct a hybrid sociological and technological concept of a smart city with matched solutions, complementary to each other. Our modeling with the elaborated digital architectures and with the bionic solution for ensuring sufficient data governance clearly showed that smart city in comparison with the traditional city is tightly interconnected inside like social “organism”. We have entered a decisive decade during which the world will change by moving closer towards SDGs targets 2030 as well as by the transformation of cities and their digital infrastructures. It is important to recognize the large vector of sociological transformation as smart cities are just a transition phase to human-centered personal space or smart home. The “atomization” of the world urban population raises the gap problem in achieving SDGs because of different approaches to constructing digital architectures for smart cities or smart homes in countries. The strategy of creating smart cities should bring each citizen closer to SDGs at the individual level, laying in the personal space the principles of sustainable development and wellness of personality.

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The Impact of Digital Infrastructure on the Sustainable Development Goals: A Study for Selected Latin American and Caribbean Countries

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The Digitalization of Agriculture and Rural Areas: Towards a Taxonomy of the Impacts

The Digitalization of Agriculture and Rural Areas: Towards a Taxonomy of the Impacts

Sociological modeling of smart city with the implementation of UN sustainable development goals

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