Digitalization and Sustainable Development: the New COVID-19 Challenge Requires Non-standard Solutions

Oksana Polishchuk


National Aviation University, The Management Technologies Department, Lubomyrа Husarа Avenue, 1, 03058 Kyiv, Ukraine (Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5263-3262

Tetiana Kulinich


Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of Organizational Management, S. Bandery Str., 12, 79013 Lviv, Ukraine (Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0110-7080

Nataly Martynovych


University of Modern Knowledge, Department of Economics and Management, Velyka Vasylkivska street, 57/3, 03150, Kiev, Ukraine (Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9884-6052

Yuliia Popova


State University of Infrastructure and Technologies, Department of Business Logistics and Transportation Technologies, Kyrylivska street, 9, 04071 Kyiv, Ukraine (Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5246-1349

Abstract

The spread of COVID-19 contributes to changing economic, environmental and social reality around the world. One of the significant consequences of the current pandemic can already be called the accelerated introduction of digital technologies in various fields. Against this background, the article is devoted to the theoretical and analytical substantiation of the feasibility of reorienting traditional production and management systems in the context of COVID-19 to digital ones.  It has been proven that digitalization, sustainable development and COVID-19 are new challenges generated by human activity that require non-standard solutions.  A composition of non-standard digital solutions is proposed to overcome the problems associated with COVID-19, ensuring sustainable development, allowing to launch new business models capable of smoothing post-Covid consequences and bringing the world economy onto a trajectory of sustainable economic growth.


Keywords:

sustainable development, Sustainable Development Goals, digitalization, digital technologies, COVID-19

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2022-07-03

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Polishchuk, O., Kulinich, T., Martynovych, N., & Popova, Y. (2022). Digitalization and Sustainable Development: the New COVID-19 Challenge Requires Non-standard Solutions. Problemy Ekorozwoju, 17(2), 69–79. https://doi.org/10.35784/pe.2022.2.08

Authors

Oksana Polishchuk 

National Aviation University, The Management Technologies Department, Lubomyrа Husarа Avenue, 1, 03058 Kyiv, Ukraine Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5263-3262

Authors

Tetiana Kulinich 

Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of Organizational Management, S. Bandery Str., 12, 79013 Lviv, Ukraine Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0110-7080

Authors

Nataly Martynovych 

University of Modern Knowledge, Department of Economics and Management, Velyka Vasylkivska street, 57/3, 03150, Kiev, Ukraine Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9884-6052

Authors

Yuliia Popova 

State University of Infrastructure and Technologies, Department of Business Logistics and Transportation Technologies, Kyrylivska street, 9, 04071 Kyiv, Ukraine Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5246-1349

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