scholarly journals Digitalization and the Decoupling Debate: Can ICT Help to Reduce Environmental Impacts While the Economy Keeps Growing?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilman Santarius ◽  
Johanna Pohl ◽  
Steffen Lange
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
General Purpose Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication

Digitalization can increase resource and energy productivities. However, the production and usage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) require materials and energy, and the application of ICTs fosters economic growth. This paper examines whether digitalization helps or hinders an absolute decoupling of environmental throughput from economic growth. The paper combines the literature on “green IT” and “ICT for green” with studies on decoupling, i.e., the relationship between economic growth, technological change, and environmental throughput. The paper identifies several strains of the decoupling debate and connects them to the environmental implications of digitalization. We focus on the relation between digitalization and (1) the question of finite non-renewable energies, (2) the environmental Kuznets curve, (3) the role of energy consumption for economic growth, (4) efficiency improvements vis-à-vis rebound effects, and (5) the role of general purpose technologies for resource and energy demand. We find that the empirical basis regarding digitalization’s relation to these four aspects is still weak and hence, further research is needed. Comparing the mitigating and the aggravating impacts of digitalization, we conclude that a more active political and societal shaping of the process of digitalization is needed to make ICT work for global environmental sustainability.

The Digital Economy, ICT and Economic Growth in the CEE Countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Arendt
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
General Purpose Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

This paper focuses on the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies, GDP growth and productivity in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. It elaborates on measures of the digital economy/information society, emphasizing the role of complementary factors to ICT that are crucial for the productive use of these General Purpose Technologies. The paper discusses the impact of technical progress, induced by the development of ICT, on sources of economic growth by describing changes in the contribution of ICT capital and non-ICT capital, labour and TFP to GDP growth in the CEE and EU-15 countries.

From e-Government to e-Governance

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Wolter Lemstra
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
General Purpose Technologies ◽  
Economic Paradigm ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Many

In this chapter, the authors elaborate on the concepts of e-Government and e-Governance and place these concepts in the broader context of the introduction and diffusion of information and communication technologies. The question that is being addressed is “what should an effective and pro-active e-Government do?” For that purpose, the ICTs are not only considered general purpose technologies, but recognized as the driving force of an unfolding technological revolution. As such, a recurrent pattern in techno-economic and socio-economic development can be discerned that goes back to the First Industrial Revolution in Britain around the late 1700s and early 1800s. It is argued that appreciating the fifth instance of this pattern and recognizing the challenges each transition invokes can inform the policy formation process and make policy action more effective. In the broader context of roles that governments may assume, a stepwise approach is introduced to address the many challenges the diffusion of ICTs is bringing about in the economic and social realm, aimed at reaping the benefits implied in the new techno-economic paradigm.

scholarly journals Role of ICT Investment and Diffusion in the Economic Growth: A Threshold Approach for the Empirical Evidence from Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Habib Ur Rahman ◽  
Ghulam Ali ◽  
Umer Zaman ◽  
Carlo Pugnetti
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Structural Breaks ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Capital Goods ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Threshold Approach

This study investigates the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) investment and diffusion on Pakistan’s economic growth by proposing the threshold level of ICT investment. At our proposed level, the ICT imports significantly enhance the intermediate inputs to capital goods, ultimately enhancing economic growth. For this empirical investigation, we use the maximum available data on technological innovation and investment, ranging from 2003 to 2018. Incorporating the structural breaks, the results of regression analysis reveal that Pakistan’s economic growth is unaffected by ICT development. However, we observe the mixed shreds of evidence on the ICT investment. Following existing literature, we use ICT goods exports and imports as a proxy for ICT investment. Interestingly, the economic growth of Pakistan is again unaffected by the ICT goods exports. However, we observe that a one percent increase in ICT goods imports enhances economic growth by 1.73 percent. Then, we extend this analysis to the threshold approach, which reveals that ICT imports affect the overall economic growth when the ICT goods imports reach the level of 4.13 percent of the total imports. At this threshold, the ICT goods import significantly enhances the intermediate input to the capital goods, leading to higher economic growth. Therefore, the policymakers should ensure that the ICT goods import must be greater than the 4.13 percent of Pakistani imports.

scholarly journals Impacts of ICT on the Spatial Differentiation of Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards in Poland

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Werner ◽  
Bartłomiej Iwańczak
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
General Purpose Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication

Abstract The development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has significant economic and social impacts at both the global and regional level. Some of these implications have been perceived as positive and unexpected. While both the positive and negative social and economic impacts have been highlighted in the literature, opinions on these impacts remain ambiguous. Those aspects considered to be advantageous include faster communication, ease of use, development in the range of services and revenues, and an increase in individuals’ free time allowance. ICT penetrates all branches of the economy as a set of general purpose technologies. New information and communication technologies ease everyday life, serve as tools to help people in extreme situations, e.g. accidents, illnesses or natural disasters, and are also the pillars of contemporary entertainment media. The usefulness of ICT has been stressed and loudly disseminated to a large extent by the media. On the other hand, these new technologies sensitize society in quite new ways to the well-known natural hazards that people have encountered in the past.

ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN AGRICULTURE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
R. P. BAIN ◽  
D. P. RAI ◽  
SIDDARTH NAYAK
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Sustainable Society ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Role Of Information

If we want to convert our rural population into knowledge driven, progressive, self sufficient, self reliant, sustainable society, the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) cannot be ignored. Timely availability information is considered as most important factor in Indian agriculture. At present ICT is the technology of this millennium. Transferring the developed technology to all end users is time-consuming and tiresome task and is often not completed due to paucity of resources and lack of manpower. In India, agriculture and rural development has gained significantly from ICT due to its widespread extension and adoption. In this era of internet, ICT is committed to provide real, timely accurate authentic information to the farmers and rural peoples.

General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-360
Author(s):  
Inyong Shin ◽  
Hyunho Kim
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
General Purpose Technologies

Student Learning and the Role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in 21st Century: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 181-185
Author(s):  
Jaspreet Singh ◽  
Amir Shamim Shiekh ◽  
Manmeet Kour ◽  
Pankaj Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Secondary Information

In the last few decades, Information Technology has transformed the entire world into a village, known as Global Village, as proposed by Marshal McLuhan. ICT has increased its influence in every field like the education sector, defense sector, technology etc. In the 21st century, information and communication technology (ICT) has become an important and integral part of most educational organizations throughout the world.. The use of ICT in classroom teaching and learning processes has become indispensable as it gives teachers and learners the opportunity to operate, store, control and retrieve data in addition to promoting self-regulated and active learning. (Ali, Haolader & Muhammad, 2013) Today we are dependent on technology and the role of ICT is increasing day by day and is believed to be a new normal. Keeping that in view, the present paper attempts to examine the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICT) and student learning. This conceptual paper  is based on secondary information collected from different sources such as books, journal articles, newspapers, reports of various government organizations, non-governmental organizations and soon.

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