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  • Does information society contribute to sustainable development?
    Vezjak, Marjan ...
    ǂThe ǂconcept of sustainability, especially as it concerns resource utilization and socio-economic development, is by now generally recognized. However, sustainable development as a dynamic process ... is not yet well understood, either qualitatively or quantitatively. The current levels of material consumption and environmental impact in industrialized countries are neither sustainable, nor credible models for developing countries. The EU must grasp the challenge of a bigger sustainability, for our quality of life and our economic prosperity, as well as to set an example for the other regions in the world. The development of the electronic information and communication technologies (the so called high-tech) and the emergence of new models of economic activities in an information society (as an essential attribute of the innovative society) offer us a new opportunity to reduce or change material use, consumption pattern, and to decentralized economic activities in a way that can allow more people all over the world to benefit. From the viewpoint of the rapid grow of information society at least one question arises: how can the potentially positive affects (the negative ones will be analyzed in the second part of this paper) of this high-tech technology on sustainability be identified, analyzed and built in new scenarios?
    Vir: STIQE '00 : proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Linking Systems Thinking, Innovation, Quality, Entrepreneurship and Environment, Maribor, Slovenia, June 27-30, 2000 (Str. 253-265)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 2000
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 5126684

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