DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND

SOCIAL CHANGE
GLOBAL DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT
Digital tools have revolutionized the ways
in which we interact with the world
around us.
The various levels of the digital divide
which must be bridged to promote wide
spread digital usage within a society.
HOW CAN WE THINK ABOUT
GLOBAL DIGITAL
DEVELOPMENT?
Itis very important and very useful to
confront our digital daily reality with
some kind of conceptual framework
because this conceptual framework will
help us to navigate also uncertain and
very dynamically quickly changing digital
realities.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
PRINCIPLES FOR DIGITAL
DEVELOPMENT
1. Design with the user
2. Understand the existing ecosystem
3. Design for scale
4. Build for sustainability
5. Be data driven
6. Use open standards, open data, open
source, and open innovation
7. Reuse and improve
8. Address privacy and security
9. Be collaborative
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
 is the overall process of invention,
innovation and diffusion of technology or
processes.
IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL
CHANGE:
New products
Improvements
Cost reductions for existing products
Better ways of managing business
operations