The fourth industrial revolution glossarium: over 1500 of the hottest terms you will use to create the future. Alexander Chesalov
restriction and to have access to information in a way that was impossible in the past. It is also called the «informational era»403.
Digital Agenda represents the synthesis of the European Commission’s strategy for the usage of ICTs in order to achieve economic growth404.
Digital agriculture sometimes known as smart farming or e-agriculture, is tools that digitally collect, store, analyze, and share electronic data and/or information in agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has described the digitalization process of agriculture as the digital agricultural revolution405.
Digital assets are electronic files of data that can be owned and transferred by individuals, and used as a currency to make transactions, or as a way of storing intangible content, such as computerized artworks, video or contract documents406.
Digital Body Language encompasses all the digital activities performed by an individual. Every time a person performs a Google search, visits a web page, opens a newsletter or downloads a guide, they contribute to their digital body language. Digital body language is used in building marketing automation407.
Digital Business Ecosystem it helps to support digital business models and local and regional development and growth encouraging cooperation between small organizations, entrepreneurs, local government, public administration, research, and innovation centers to promote the cohesion of local communities and enable new modes of sustainable e-business practices and open innovation408.
Digital Business Strategy is combination between IT strategy and business strategy409.
Digital Business, or Electronic Business is an activity that aims at gaining a competitive edge via (or with the help of) the web. The Internet has become one of the standard operational environments for electronic business, but there are alternatives. Digital business focusses on innovations related to the operational concept and realizes them through modern electronic solutions. On the strategic level, the core of operations is based on digitization, not merely on turning traditional processes electronic. This entire glossary of digital business can be understood as a group of things used to implement digital business strategies. Digital business is often linked to disruption-oriented approaches410.
Digital Capabilities is the term used to describe the skills and attitudes that individuals and organizations need if they are to thrive in today’s world. At an individual level we define digital capabilities as those which equip someone to live, learn and work in a digital society411.
Digital citizenship as the self-enactment of people’s role in society through the use of digital technologies, stressing the empowering and democratizing characteristics of the citizenship idea412.
Digital Company is companies, that offer digital brokerage services and advertising services without a fixed workplace413.
Digital consumer may be defined as someone using mobile devices, and in a broad sense, as e-consumer, looking for and purchasing products on the Internet, taking advantage of the content published on-line, aware of themselves and of their needs, and keen on simplifying the decisions they need to make414.
Digital contact tracing is a method of contact tracing relying on tracking systems, most often based on mobile devices, to determine contact between an infected patient and a user415.
Digital content refers to any type of media that an organization uses to engage with visitors, customers, or users of their website or applications, distributed by online delivery systems416.
Digital Curation is all about maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for future and current use; specifically, the active management and appraisal of data over the entire life cycle. Digital curation builds upon the underlying concepts of digital preservation whilst emphasizing opportunities for added value and knowledge through annotation and continuing resource management417.
Digital currency is a form of currency that is available only in digital or electronic form. It is also called digital money, electronic money, electronic currency, or cybercash418.
Digital Customer Experience is the sum of encounters experienced by the customer in various digital media. See also Customer experience419.
Digital disruption is an effect that changes the fundamental expectations and behaviors in a culture, market, industry or process that is caused by, or expressed through, digital capabilities, channels or assets420.
Digital Divide is a term that refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology (ICT), and those that don’t or have restricted access. This technology can include the telephone, television, personal computers and internet connectivity. Digital Divide is a concept that has become especially widespread in the last decade due to the increased importance of introducing new digital technologies in society and overcoming existing differences in the field of information and knowledge that hinder the development of basic economic and social infrastructures, in particular the energy sector, telecommunications and education421.
Digital Economy is the worldwide network of economic activities, commercial transactions and professional interactions that are enabled by information and communications technologies (ICT). It can be succinctly summed up as the economy based on digital technologies. The digital economy is an economic activity in which digital data is a key factor in production, the processing of large volumes and the use of the analysis results of which, compared with traditional forms of management, can significantly increase the efficiency of various types of production, technologies, equipment, storage, sale, delivery of goods and services422.
Digital ecosystem is a group of interconnected information technology resources that can function as a unit. Digital ecosystems are made up of suppliers, customers, trading partners, applications, third-party data service providers and all respective technologies. Digital Ecosystem is an integrated information technology resource made up of suppliers, customers, trading partners, applications, third-party data service providers and all respective technologies with Interoperability being the key to its success423,424.
Digital educational environment is an open set of information systems designed to support various tasks of the educational process. The word «open» means the ability and the right to use different information systems as part of the DSP, replace them or add
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Digital Age – Text: electronic. – www.igi-global.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/resource-sharing/7562
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Digital Agenda – Text: electronic. – www.igi-global.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/meta-digital-accounting-in-the-context-of-cloud-computing/41322
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Digital agriculture – Text: electronic. – https://en.wikipedia.org (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_agriculture
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Digital assets – Text: electronic. – www.ft.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.ft.com/content/2691366f-d381-40cd-a769-6559779151c2
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Digital Body Language – Text: electronic. – www.sofokus.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.sofokus.com/glossary-of-digital-business/#D
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Digital Business Ecosystem – Text: electronic. – www.igi-global.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/digital-business-ecosystem/68628
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Digital Business Strategy – Text: electronic. – www.igi-global.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/digital-business-strategy/41823
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Digital Business, Or Electronic Business – Text: electronic. – www.sofokus.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.sofokus.com/glossary-of-digital-business/#D
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Digital Capabilities – Text: electronic. – www.igi-global.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/the-digital-economy-readiness-study/85317
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Digital citizenship – Text: electronic. – https://en.wikipedia.org (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_citizen
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Digital Company – Text: electronic. – www.igi-global.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/a-new-digital-service-tax-for-the-transformation-of-the-taxation-architecture-in-turkey/97819
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Digital consumer – Text: electronic. – www.researchgate.net (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327079329_Digital_Consumer_Trends_and_Challenges
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Digital contact tracing – Text: electronic. – https://digitalhealtheurope.eu URL: https://digitalhealtheurope.eu/glossary/digital-contact-tracing/ (date of request: 10.11.2022)
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Digital content – Text: electronic. – www.optimizely.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.optimizely.com/optimization-glossary/digital-content/
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Digital Curation – Text: electronic. – www.umich.edu (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/cms/2042#D
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Digital currency – Text: electronic. – www.investopedia.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/digital-currency.asp
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Digital Customer Experience – Text: electronic. – www.sofokus.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.sofokus.com/glossary-of-digital-business/#D
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Digital disruption – Text: electronic. – https://cdn.aigroup.com.au URL: https://cdn.aigroup.com.au/Policy/2018/Industry4-0/Glossary.pdf (date of request: 25.02.2023)
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Digital Divide – Text: electronic. – www.techtarget.com URL: https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/digital-divide (date of request: 07.07.2022)
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Digital Economy – Text: electronic. – www.techtarget.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/digital-economy
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Digital ecosystem – Text: electronic. – www.igi-global.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/digital-ecosystem
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Digital ecosystem – Text: electronic. – www.igi-global.com (date of request: 07.07.2022) URL: https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/organizational-knowledge-of-digital-economy-in-transformation-in-big-data-and-in-internet-of-things/64613