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Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development
Barnes and Noble
Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development
Current price: $71.99
Barnes and Noble
Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development
Current price: $71.99
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shows how ICT, as an enabler for all spheres of development, can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster integration of new technologies into business systems. Focused on sustainability, the book addresses strategic approaches to cope with a range of climatic, environmental, cyber-security threats and other global risks, and aims to promote prosperity and economic growth. Furthermore, it explores how the adoption of new technologies, and collective action based upon a strategic behavioral theory of new leadership, can be applied when responding to specific set of conditions that allow for the proposed strategies to cope with risks.
- Discusses for the first time the potential of ICT as a transformative power in finding solutions to climatic and economic issues.
- Illustrates comprehensive strategic planning for leaders to implement in both public and private organizations.
- Integrates standards and frameworks in the context of sustainable development along with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Describes in detail how mechanism design, risk management, business continuity systems, a comprehensive strategic planning using SAC (Strategic Adaptive Cognition) and risk mechanism theory can be used to address environmental risks and attain sustainable development goals (SDGs).
- Explains eHealth as an adaptation strategy to address future changes in climate and impacts, and the links between mitigation and adaptation to ICTs.