Special Interest Group on Digitalization & AI for Sustainability (DAISY)

The Special Interest Group on Digitalization & AI for SustainabilitY (DAISY) is a working group hosted by the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development focused on the role of digitalization and AI in sustainable development.

Digital technologies are often seen as promising enablers of sustainability, yet there is also an ongoing debate about the impact of digital technologies and on the potential (mis-)alignment between the digital and sustainability transitions. This SIG serves as a discussion forum for researchers working at the Copernicus Institute to develop collective expertise on these topical issues through knowledge exchange and inter-disciplinary collaboration on joint publications, projects, and funding applications.

The SIG holds regular meetings of the core group, as well as events featuring external speakers that are open to everyone at the Copernicus Institute and the UU. If you are curious to connect, reach out to Iryna Susha (i.susha@uu.nl).

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Selected publications:

Bohnsack, R., Bidmon, C. M., & Pinkse, J. (Eds.). (2022). Sustainability in the digital age: Intended and unintended consequences of digital technologies for sustainable development (pp. 599-602). Wiley.

Piscicelli, L. (2023). The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 61, 101251.

Susha, I., Rukanova, B., Zuiderwijk, A., Gil-Garcia, J. R., & Hernandez, M. G. (2023). Achieving voluntary data sharing in cross sector partnerships: Three partnership models. Information and Organization, 33(1), 100448.

Mouthaan, M., Frenken, K., Piscicelli, L., & Vaskelainen, T. (2023). Systemic sustainability effects of contemporary digitalization: A scoping review and research agenda. Futures, 103142.

Related projects:

INTRANSIT – Innovation Policy for Industrial Transformation, Sustainability and Digitalization funded by the Norwegian Research Council

Data purchasing by governments in the context of societal challenges: A mapping study