Digitalization - saving or wasting resources?

Abstract

Digitalization, the main driver for the current economic paradigm helped the business environment to gain more sustainability by developing business models based on the implementation of the latest digital technologies in their activities, gaining more economic growth by being more efficient in their approaches; and by transforming the analogue paper-based procedures into digitalized procedures by using the IT technology, the waste of resources has been decreased significantly. But is that completely true?

Keywords

• digitalization
• technology
• investment
• consumption
• sustainability