ESOF2024 | 12–15 June 2024 | Katowice, Poland
Digital Transformation
keywords: digital transformation, digitalisation, machine learning, sustainable development, digital economy, cybersecurity
Session themes
Time of global digital transition: time of overcoming participation barriers
New models of sustainable development as a result of digital transition
Digital transition as a stimulator of changes in the science system
New models of education in the digital world
The role of machine learning and artificial intelligence in digital transition
Security of digital resources – current challenges
Description
Digital transformation is a process of technological, social and economic changes on an unprecedented global scale, with all the hallmarks of a civilizational revolution. The changes related to digital transformation are not limited to the continuous development of solutions based on new technical possibilities, but to a large extent they involve the introduction of new structures and functional models without previous equivalents.
In the entire academic system, both in research and education, the changes covered not only the methods of communication, but also the methodological revolution related to the possibilities of access and use of data (available locally, but also remotely, and without restrictions, primarily technical ones). On this basis, in an often uncontrolled way, there was an avalanche of automated algorithmic techniques associated with the concept and solutions of artificial intelligence.
In the digital world, recalling the meaning of universal values and principles plays a particularly important role. In the academic system, the awareness of their importance led to the recognition as natural and basic of a whole complex of open models: open science and open education, as well as opening up to the whole of society in the form referred to as citizen science. It has become critical to introduce common standards, also open ones, in all digital aspects: in the economy, in science, in education.
The assumption of this process is to ensure the security of digital data, their confidentiality, integrity, availability and authenticity at every stage of their processing, taking into account the dynamics of change on the one hand, and the constantly changing nature of threats on the other.
In a natural way, the digital economy is the foundation for the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Possibilities of using the information contained in the so-called Big Data has a chance on a global scale to become the basis for development processes that do not aggravate environmental threats and enable rationalisation of the use of natural and participatory resources of the society.
