scholarly journals From the Digital Data Revolution toward a Digital Society: Pervasiveness of Artificial Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-298
Author(s):  
Frank Emmert-Streib
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Method Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Limiting State ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Private Lives

Technological progress has led to powerful computers and communication technologies that penetrate nowadays all areas of science, industry and our private lives. As a consequence, all these areas are generating digital traces of data amounting to big data resources. This opens unprecedented opportunities but also challenges toward the analysis, management, interpretation and responsible usage of such data. In this paper, we discuss these developments and the fields that have been particularly effected by the digital revolution. Our discussion is AI-centered showing domain-specific prospects but also intricacies for the method development in artificial intelligence. For instance, we discuss recent breakthroughs in deep learning algorithms and artificial intelligence as well as advances in text mining and natural language processing, e.g., word-embedding methods that enable the processing of large amounts of text data from diverse sources such as governmental reports, blog entries in social media or clinical health records of patients. Furthermore, we discuss the necessity of further improving general artificial intelligence approaches and for utilizing advanced learning paradigms. This leads to arguments for the establishment of statistical artificial intelligence. Finally, we provide an outlook on important aspects of future challenges that are of crucial importance for the development of all fields, including ethical AI and the influence of bias on AI systems. As potential end-point of this development, we define digital society as the asymptotic limiting state of digital economy that emerges from fully connected information and communication technologies enabling the pervasiveness of AI. Overall, our discussion provides a perspective on the elaborate relatedness of digital data and AI systems.

MODELING INNOVATIVE YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE EXPERIENCE OF BELARUS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venelin Krastev Terziev ◽  
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Vladimir Klimuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Youth Entrepreneurship ◽  
Great Damage

The model of a modern society is a „digital society” based on the widespread use of information and communication technologies. Information is of utmost importance. However, „unprocessed“, „unprepared“ information is not valuable, but quite the opposite – it causes great damage economic, technical, psychological, political and others). First of all, this concerns young people, who are exposed to the influence of „harmful factors“ (information messages, appeals) more than other categories of the population.

Life Insurance-Based Recommendation System for Effective Information Computing

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Asha Rani ◽  
Kavita Taneja ◽  
Harmunish Taneja
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Rich Domain ◽  
Personalized Services ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Health Assets

Due to the rapid advancements in information and communication technologies, the digital data is exponentially growing on the internet. The insurance industry with tough competition has emerged as information rich domain based on health, assets, and life insurance for public. Customers expect to receive personalized services that match their needs, preferences, and lifestyles. But a large portion of population is still unfriendly to the insurance selection. Major reasons could be the time and complexities involved in selection of suitable policies. This paper presents the state of the art of the research done in insurance recommendation systems at national and international levels. Multi-criteria decision-making methods are compared with collaborative filtering and data mining techniques. Their suitability to the field of life insurance recommendation is analyzed. The paper identifies the lack of public dataset of customers and life insurance policies and highlights the need for a personalized, neutral, and unified model for effective information computing for life insurance recommendations.

Digital revolution and party innovations: An analysis of the Spanish case

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-253
Author(s):  
Francesco Raniolo ◽  
Valeria Tarditi
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
Party Change ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

AbstractThe literature on party change has shown how the advent of the digital revolution and the diffusion of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the democracies of the 21st century have influenced the way political parties communicate and perform their functions. Less investigated, however, is the organizational reaction of political parties to the challenges posed by the transformation of the communications environment. The aim of this paper is to scrutinize whether parties evince a transformative tendency towards virtual models in which new digital ICTs are used as ‘functional equivalents’ of the old organizational infrastructures. To this end, the paper focuses on the Spanish democracy – a paradigmatic case of the political transformations that European democracies have undergone since the 2008 economic crisis – comparing the organizational models of the main political parties: the Partido Socialista Obrero Español, the Partido Popular, Podemos and Ciudadanos. Particularly the analysis – through the use of parties' documents – focuses on whether and how digital tools are used by the Spanish parties in three dimensions: the participants in the organization, the organizational configuration and the decision-making process. The main conclusions are: new challenger parties make a more intense and radical use of new ICTs introducing ‘disrupting innovations’ in their organization, while old and mainstream parties gradually adapt their organization to the new digital environment introducing ‘sustaining innovations’; parties on the left make greater use of ICTs in order to foster greater internal democracy when compared to their corresponding parties on the centre-right.

From Citizens to Decision-Makers

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-34
Author(s):  
Eya Boukchina ◽  
Sehl Mellouli ◽  
Emna Menif
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Processing Techniques

Citizens' participation is a form of democracy in which citizens are part of the decision-making process with regard to the development of their society. In today's emergence of Information and Communication Technologies, citizens can participate in these processes by submitting inputs through digital media such as social media platforms or dedicated websites. From these different means, a high quantity of data, of different forms (text, image, video), can be generated. This data needs to be processed in order to extract valuable data that can be used by a city's decision-makers. This paper presents natural language processing techniques to extract valuable information from comments posted by citizens. It applies the Latent Semantic Analysis on a corpus of citizens' comments to automatically identify the subjects that were raised by citizens.

The Lawyer in the Emerging Digital Environment: A Botswana Perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-129
Author(s):  
Madeleine Choe-Amusimo Fombad ◽  
Charles Manga Fombad
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
African Renaissance ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Post Industrial

The advent of the global digital revolution and the phenomenal advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs), have today provided an opportunity for the much-vaunted African renaissance and a chance for the continent to leapfrog over some of the enormous barriers of underdevelopment and claim a place in the post-industrial economy. The new technology has not only liberated the human brain from many mundane tasks but it has enhanced our productivity in many dramatic ways. It is becoming increasingly clear that the availability and use of ICTs is pre-requisite for economic and social development in this era of globalization.

Exploratory Insights on Artificial Intelligence for Government in Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 089443932098044
Author(s):  
Colin van Noordt ◽  
Gianluca Misuraca
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
The Public ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Information And Communication

There is great interest to use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to improve government processes and public services. However, the adoption of technologies has often been challenging for public administrations. In this article, the adoption of AI in governmental organizations has been researched as a form of information and communication technologies (ICT)–enabled governance innovation in the public sector. Based on findings from three cases of AI adoption in public sector organizations, this article shows strong similarities between the antecedents identified in previous academic literature and the factors contributing to the use of AI in government. The adoption of AI in government does not solely rely on having high-quality data but is facilitated by numerous environmental, organizational, and other factors that are strictly intertwined among each other. To address the specific nature of AI in government and the complexity of its adoption in the public sector, we thus propose a framework to provide a comprehensive overview of the key factors contributing to the successful adoption of AI systems, going beyond the narrow focus on data, processing power, and algorithm development often highlighted in the mainstream AI literature and policy discourse.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF SUPRA-PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES OF STUDENTS IN THE DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-147
Author(s):  
M.Yu. Aybazova ◽  
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A.K. Aybazova ◽  
A. A. Karasova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
High Level

The transition of Russia to a digital society actualizes the issues of the formation of universal competencies that are in demand in the professions of the future. The article presents the content of supra-professional competencies that allow performing professional tasks at a high level in the context of the digital transformation of the economy. For the formation of meta-competencies, it is necessary to use the resources of the digital educational environment, online tools that provide not only high-quality access to modern knowledge, but change the ways of thinking, which form the ability to interact with a society through the use of information and communication technologies.

scholarly journals Propuesta de servicio de supervisión remoto en cultivos del sector vinícola

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Ricardo JARA-RUIZ ◽  
Ignacio Alejandro MONTES-GARCÍA ◽  
Néstor David FELICIANO-VELÁZQUEZ ◽  
Marcos Emmanuel QUEZADA-MUÑOZ
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Communication Network ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Wine Sector ◽  
Technological Impact

This research paper presents and structures a proposal for agro-industrial application using Unmanned Air Vehicles (UANs) or Drones in the wine sector, which proposes the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in synergy with advances in artificial intelligence. For development, the design and structuring of a remote service is considered that allows the user or owner to generate a request for wine monitoring through a communication network through a mobile application considering the use of a drone equipped with a vision system that allows to identify patterns and consequently detect characteristics in specific that have a high potential to pose an obvious risk; this with an approach that provides the user or producer with the information necessary for making effective decisions in the process of assisting the problems. All with the aim of developing tools that contribute and work for new contributions that generate a technological impact in the context of the sector considered important in the national economy.

scholarly journals ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS APPLICATION IN PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICINES

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 382-385
Author(s):  
Pramod Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industries ◽  
Insurance Data ◽  
Media Data

Big data in the life sciences and healthcare sectors is an increasing trend. It is the processing and displaying of huge volumes and varieties of data at a rapid speed. There is a vast amount of data in the healthcare and Pharmaceutical industries, including lab data, insurance data, patient records, research data, and even social media data (1, 2). Pharmaceutical companies have vast amounts of compounds that could be the perfect solution to combat specific diseases, but they have no way to identify them as such. The development and production of drugs can cost pharmaceutical companies up to $2.6 billion (£1.8bn) and take 12 to 14 years to complete (1). Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a crucial role in enabling the industry to achieve these objectives, be it analytics in personalized medicine, cloud computing in collaboration, or wearable devices in remote and self-health monitoring. Thus, the main short/medium-term implication AI has for the pharmaceutical industry is the reduced time it takes to develop drugs and thus the associated costs, enhancing return on investment and could even mean a reduction in cost for end users. As the pharmaceutical industry becomes increasingly more connected, information and communication technologies will fundamentally reshape both the consumption and delivery of medications (1, 2,3).

scholarly journals The value-reflexive attitude of Russians to the Internet (the case of Moscow and the Moscow Region)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Kargapolova ◽  
Sofia S. Zarembo ◽  
Polina I. Petrova ◽  
Yulia A. Davydova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Electronic Culture ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

Information and communication technologies, the Internet in particular, have a significant impact on all the aspects of social life. Therefore, it is necessary to study the problems, consequences, and scale of such influence in the sphere of different scientific disciplines (sociology, psychology, and cultural studies) as well as in the sphere of interdisciplinary discourse. There is a need for research adequate to the current situation of transition to a new technological mode, a digital society, which actualizes the demand for the formation of a new type of personality, a new elite. The new elite will be the bearers of the socio-cultural code of deep and systemic information processing, the owners of electronic culture on the basis of critical digital literacy and reflexivity. At the same time, specific empirical studies of recent years abroad and in Russia demonstrate the predominance of competences of information and communication technologies user, which is absolutely insufficient in the digital society. This research aims to analyze the value-reflexive attitude of Russians to the Internet based on the results of a specific sociological survey among the residents of Moscow and the Moscow Region, implemented under the guidance and direct participation of the authors of this article during the period of social restrictions imposed by state authorities in connection with the new coronavirus infection from April to November 2020 by online questionnaire. The research tools included a block of questions on the digitalization of the region, including a number of statements showing the value-reflexive attitude of the respondents to the Internet. The results show that the number of respondents, who regard the Internet as one of the modern civilizational values, exceeds the share of respondents who recognize the dangers of Internet addiction. The authors have revealed that an even smaller percentage of those aware of the relationship of Internet addiction and anonymity on the Internet with the destruction of moral and moral systems, the erasure of the boundaries of personal and public space, psychological problems. A significant proportion of those who exhibit dangerous symptoms of alienation from the real, physical and social world was recorded. It was determined that for the majority of respondents, the Internet space has not become a platform of freedom, creative fulfillment, a friendly environment. The article assumes that economic conditions could become the foundation for bringing people together in the Internet space. Intergenerational differences in the value-reflexive attitude to the Internet space are revealed. The authors draw attention to the fact that the elderly, as the bearers of the deep meanings of traditional cultural forms, reflect the risks and dangers of the Internet space to a greater extent than the young people and adults. The authors link the prospects for further research with the sociological monitoring, which will allow studying the dynamics of digitalization processes in the region, the impact of age characteristics of identity on the attitude to the Internet, and the formation of electronic culture.

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