Cyfryzacja a zrównoważony rozwój w UE

Digitalization versus sustainability in the EU (30h, dr Elżbieta Szczygieł)

1. The idea of Sustainable Development – the role of three dimensions (economic, social and environmental) in the development process.

2. The importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in economic processes in the EU – the digital revolution, its role and its manifestations in business processes, from data collection to artificial intelligence, analysis of the economic benefits and costs of the digital revolution.

3. The social challenges of the digital revolution – the role of digitalization and its manifestations in everyday social processes, new way of communication and maintaining interpersonal relations, analysis of the social benefits and costs of the digital revolution.

4. The environmental challenges of the digital revolution – digitalization and resources and waste, demand for non-renewable resources in digital technologies, analysis of the environmental benefits and costs of the digital revolution.

5. Circular Economy and Digitalization – the role of limiting resources in modern economy, the internet of things vs. actual ownership, assessing progress of CE implementation, saving and using resources, reuse of them.

6. Benefit-cost analysis of the impact of digitalization on economic sustainability – analysis of statistical data from public and social sources, attempt to estimate model parameters.