Digital Future Research Articles

A Sturdy Shield: Enhancing 6G Fronthaul with Quantum-Security

Abstract: With the emergence of smart devices and the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G has been developed to meet the growing demand for transmission speeds and bandwidth. 5G overcomes the limitations of previous generations of technology, offering significant improvements in speed, latency, and stability. However, with the advancement of computational capabilities and the advent of quantum computers, security issues have become a pressing concern. Current technologies in 5G fronthaul rely on intrinsic security technologies, which are difficult to defend against quantum computer-based attacks. Consequently, this paper proposes a future mobile fronthaul architecture, such as 6G, which builds upon the 5G fronthaul network architecture while introducing quantum communication based on the BB84 protocol. This architecture enhances privacy protection and improves resistance to eavesdropping while maintaining the original performance. Additionally, the paper models the architecture to explore its noise resistance, using forward and backward spontaneous Raman scattering power as indicators, and demonstrates the system's feasibility under the influence of high-power 6G signals. The potential applications of this architecture are also examined. The results indicate that the quantum-secure 6G fronthaul network represents a significant breakthrough. It not only meets the stringent security requirements of modern communication but also enables a wide range of applications, paving the way for a safer and more interconnected digital future.

Navigating Modern Threats: The Imperative of Strengthening Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity has become crucial in today's changing world to protect data and promote technological advancements, according to a recent online study. In a world where networks and IoT devices are increasingly interconnected and vulnerable, to attacks cyber threats have become a concern as discussed in the research paper I came across. The study delves into issues related to cybersecurity risks. Emphasizes the importance of implementing strong security measures to prevent unauthorized access and cyber breaches. The research explores studies by areas that need more attention while stressing the value of modern approaches, like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in boosting threat identification and reaction capabilities. This article discusses the importance of cybersecurity, in maintaining stability and security through analysis. It emphasizes the need for companies to adopt technologies in their security measures for managing risks. The results of this article have implications, for fostering cooperation to tackle cybersecurity issues and contribute to securing a digital future. Keywords Cyber Security, Cyber Attacks, Challenges, Threats, Vulnerabilities

Shaping Europe’s Digital and Sustainable Future: Analysis of the Digital Economy and Society Index in the Pre- and Post-Pandemic Period

Shaping Europe’s Digital and Sustainable Future: Analysis of the Digital Economy and Society Index in the Pre- and Post-Pandemic Period

Building Cybersecurity Culture in Education as Imperative for Youth to Thrive in Digital Society

This paper argues for integrating dedicated cybersecurity courses and programs within school and higher education curricula to drive mass cyber-socialization and develop responsible digital citizenship among youth. Immersive cybersecurity education through simulations, community linkages and holistic culture building can transform habits and mindsets to address risks like hacking, misinformation and privacy breaches students face online. Recommendations are provided for nationwide implementation through policy measures, public advocacy and educator capacity building. Mainstreaming cyber education can empower youth with competencies and values for secure and progressive digital futures.

The crucial role of education in fostering sustainability awareness and promoting cybersecurity measures

This study examines the critical role of education in fostering sustainability awareness and promoting cybersecurity measures, amidst the evolving challenges of the 21st century. Employing a systematic literature review and content analysis, the research scrutinizes the intersection of education with sustainability and cybersecurity, aiming to uncover innovative pedagogical approaches and the significance of interdisciplinary strategies in enhancing learning outcomes. The methodology encompasses a comprehensive search across major databases, adhering to strict inclusion and exclusion criteria to ensure the relevance and timeliness of the literature reviewed. Key findings reveal a pressing need for educational frameworks to integrate sustainability and cybersecurity comprehensively, highlighting the transformative potential of education in preparing students for a sustainable and secure digital future. The study identifies gaps in current educational practices and proposes solutions, emphasizing the importance of standards and regulatory bodies in shaping effective educational practices. Furthermore, it outlines the consequences for stakeholders, including educators, policymakers, and industry leaders, underscoring the collaborative effort required to address these challenges. Conclusively, the study offers strategic recommendations for enhancing the integration of sustainability and cybersecurity within educational curricula. It calls for a concerted effort among educators, policymakers, and industry leaders to foster a more informed, ethical, and environmentally conscious society. Future research directions are suggested to explore innovative educational technologies, pedagogies, and frameworks that further integrate these critical areas, ensuring the advancement of education for sustainability and cybersecurity.

GREENCOOL-Case Study of an International MOOC Course’s Green and Communication Content Development

Sustainability and green matters are emerging issues among youth in the 21st century. The European Union (EU) emphasises youth discourse on greener thinking and lifestyle, which aims to build an open-minded, green, and digital future. Therefore it is crucial to provide appropriate education and shape attitudes towards green issues. Regarding this scope, four universities of the European Capitals of Cultures (ECoC), the University of Pannonia (Veszprém, Hungary), University of Tartu (Estonia) Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), and West University of Timisoara (Romania), allied to develop a MOOC course interconnecting green related topics and communication skills and methods. The case study summarizes the main findings of the questionnaire (with 701 youth between 18-25 age), the desktop and focus group interviews research that gave the bases of developing the MOOC course material of GreenCool Erasmus projects. First the primary data, reflecting aspects of the involvement of young people in fighting climate crisis was analysed. The ultimate goal was to come up with a well-documented profile of students in tertiary education, reflecting their 'green' and 'communication' profiles as agents in fighting climate change. Second, taking the outcomes into consideration, the 4 universities carried out focus group interviews with 27 participants: influencers, green and communication experts and university students. As a result the green and communication topics were identified. This led to those methodological tools that were appropriate and effective in developing the GreenCool MOOC material and the corresponding blended Greenfluencer course with the provisional title: ‘Attitudes shaping communication techniques and green related topics in the 21st Century’. The case study describes the process and the results.

AI literacy in Teacher Education in the Czech Republic

The development of artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming education systems worldwide, including those in the Czech Republic. This paper assesses the level of AI literacy among teachers and its integration into the Czech education system. The aim is to determine how well teachers are equipped with knowledge, skills, and understanding of AI, and how effectively they can integrate AI and AI awareness into their teaching. The methodology entails gathering data via a questionnaire survey distributed to teachers across various educational levels. The survey comprises questions that concentrate on AI literacy aspects, such as basic AI principles, the capacity to apply AI to teaching, discussing ethical issues related to AI use in the school environment, and critical thinking abilities. The questionnaire analyses the current state and challenges teachers face when integrating AI into teaching and learning practices. The results will be evaluated to identify areas where teachers' AI literacy needs strengthening and to propose strategies and recommendations for improving teacher training programmes and support. These strategies comprise teacher training, the provision of resources and support for integrating AI into the classroom, and reflection on the ethical and societal aspects of AI. It is equally important to invest in the long-term development of AI literacy among teachers as a fundamental step towards effectively harnessing the potential of AI in education and preparing students for the digital future. This article presents strategies and recommendations for the further development of AI literacy among teachers in the Czech Republic. The objective is to enhance their capacity and facilitate the more effective utilisation of AI in education.

DIGITAL LITERACY IN MODERN EDUCATION

This article examines the important role of digital literacy in contemporary educational systems. It highlights the importance of equipping students with the skills to effectively navigate and utilize digital technologies, which are increasingly integral to both personal and professional spheres. The article discusses various components of digital literacy, such as critical thinking, online communication, and information evaluation. It also addresses the challenges educators face in integrating digital literacy into curricula, including the digital divide and the need for teacher training. By underlining successful strategies and potential solutions for developing digital literacy presented by experts around the world, the article calls for necessity of digital literacy in education, aiming to prepare students for a rapidly evolving digital future.

Evolving K-12 Digital Education: Enhancing Flexibility and Access through Online Learning and Virtual Programs

Background and Aims: Evolving K-12 digital education is critical because it increases flexibility, accessibility, and personalization, addressing diverse student needs and broadening learning opportunities. This evolution is critical for responding to technological advancements and preparing students for a digital future. This paper investigates the Evolving K-12 Digital Education: Enhancing Flexibility and Access through Online Learning and Virtual Programs. Methodology: The methodology for this review article is a systematic synthesis of existing literature on K-12 digital education, with a focus on online learning and virtual programs. It entails selecting and analyzing relevant studies to evaluate trends, benefits, and challenges, resulting in a comprehensive overview of how digital education improves flexibility, accessibility, and personalization. This approach is intended to provide valuable insights into the current state and future directions of digital learning. Results: the finding found that the incorporation of digital technology into K-12 education has significantly increased flexibility, accessibility, and personalized learning, it has also introduced new challenges such as the digital divide and difficulties in adapting to virtual settings. To fully reap the benefits of digital education, ongoing efforts must be made to address these challenges through equitable access, robust support systems, and comprehensive professional development for educators. The ongoing evolution of digital education promises to further transform learning experiences, assuming that these issues are effectively addressed. Conclusion: The incorporation of digital technology into K-12 education has greatly improved flexibility, accessibility, and personalization while also introducing new challenges such as the digital divide and adaptation difficulties. To fully realize these benefits, ongoing efforts are required to ensure equitable access, strong support systems, and comprehensive professional development for educators, paving the way for future advancements in digital learning.

The nurse, the framework, and the digital future.

The nurse, the framework, and the digital future.

Lodging complaints against platform power: how Lebanese journalists and activists experience reporting mechanisms, platform failures, and techno-alienation

ABSTRACT Since Western technology platforms began colonizing online spaces, they have neglected Majority World populations, including those in MENA/SWANA countries like Lebanon. This neglect exacerbates harassment and violence against marginalized individuals, reinforcing systemic harms in Lebanon's cisheteropatriarchal and sectarian society. Our study draws on 14 in-depth interviews with women and queer journalists and activists in Lebanon who have faced online harassment and violence. Utilizing Sarah Ahmed’s feminist notion of complaint, we explore the flaws in platforms’ reporting mechanisms and document what we term ‘techno-alienation’: a state where those marginalized by these platforms feel abandoned and unable to envision an inclusive digital future. Participants highlighted that online platforms are addressing these issues too little, too late, leading to estrangement and disengagement among users who feel left behind.

Adaptive Scenario Planning Development for Indonesian Digital Health Industry: Case Study of Export Support Services (ESS) in Promoting UK Companies Entering Indonesia

The COVID-19 pandemic, once an unpredictable yet plausible future event, has proven to be a reality, highlighting the urgent need for adaptation. Factors such as varying Universal Health Coverage (UHC) maturity, limitations in healthcare infrastructure, and unpredictable private sector moves, including venture capital investments, add to the uncertainty. Like the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit was another unpredictable yet plausible event that has become a reality. Export Support Service (ESS), a UK Department for Business and Trade (DBT) initiative, assists UK SMEs in expanding beyond the EU post-Brexit, including Indonesia’s digital health sector. The study refines its strategy to navigate the market’s complexities through adaptive scenario planning. This study identified 25 key factors shaping Indonesia’s digital health future and developed three scenarios: “Cherry Blossom Park,” “Volcano Eruptions Amidst a Forest,” and “High-Tech Greenhouse in a Desert.” Each scenario explores implications and opportunities, providing strategic guidance for ESS.

Communication and Advertising in India: Evolution, Challenges, and the Digital Future

Communication and Advertising in India: Evolution, Challenges, and the Digital Future

AI art education - artificial or intelligent? Transformative pedagogic reflections from three art educators in Singapore

ABSTRACT With growing interest in the role and integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI pedagogies in transformative art education this paper voices the pedagogic reflections of three art educators in Singapore who have engaged AI in their art provision. It discusses and exemplifies the advantages (intelligent), like interdisciplinary opportunity, enhanced student engagement and increased connectionism, and limitations (artificial), like ethical and moral dilemmas and positioning, of AI integration in three art education settings showcasing how educators and learners engage. Model of pedagogic reflection is used to reveal how the educators provided transformative learning with AI, whilst showing the influence of personal art interests, technique modelling and professional reflections on teaching and making involving AI. Paper contributions include insights into and examples of AI practices and pedagogies (like AI literacy and prompt engineering), that are and could be used in art education, reflections on their successes and limits and commentary on the position of AI integration in the circular economy of art education. The paper is positioned to mobilize educator and student voice as an influential driver in the transformation of art education given ongoing developments in digital education futures.

A Study on the Historical Context and Digital Future of Rewi Alley and the International Communication of Gansu Culture

A Study on the Historical Context and Digital Future of Rewi Alley and the International Communication of Gansu Culture

Teaching and learning in business schools post-pandemic: a digital future

PurposeIn 2018, a group of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Switzerland started discussing the future of education. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many of their initial ideas and solutions were tested in the unpredictable, emergency online setting. This study aims to use student and faculty member perceptions to outline the future of higher education.Design/methodology/approachThis research is based on eight surveys from students and faculty members at one Swiss HEI in business studies. While many previous studies focus on one group or one moment in time, this study examines the future of business education from both perspectives and traces the responses throughout the pandemic.FindingsTeaching and learning strategies and perceptions evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, despite the potential, many HEIs simply reverted to normal instead of adapting to the “new normal”. Conversely, some HEIs have continued using the same exercises and tools that were used in the emergency remote pandemic-mode, without adapting or reflecting on the current learning environment. Based on the findings, both students and faculty members have increased their interest and proficiency in using digital tools although the students remained more open toward the opportunities of digital teaching and learning.Originality/valueBased on the results, this study offers a model for the future of education that HEIs could implement when moving forward, whether on campus or online.

Video Consultations and Environmental Sustainability - Usability's Impact on Long-Term Use.

The rapid shift to digital healthcare, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, holds promise for sustainable healthcare delivery and climate change mitigation. This study evaluates the Alltid öppet application through the lens of usability and patient satisfaction and their correlation with the intention for continued use. A cross-sectional analysis of primary care patients revealed that alignment with user needs significantly predicts long-term adoption, while frustration during use discourages it. Ease of use did not significantly affect the intention to continue, suggesting that usability alone is insufficient to drive sustained engagement. These findings highlight user-centred design's importance in digital healthcare solutions, suggesting that enduring adoption hinges on value perception and reducing user frustration. As the healthcare sector navigates its digital future, this study offers crucial insights into the design and implementation strategies that could underpin the environmental sustainability and resilience of healthcare systems.

Shaping Europe’s digital future: AI Act (secondary publication)

Shaping Europe’s digital future: AI Act (secondary publication)

The digital citizen as technoliberal subject: The politics of constitutive rhetoric in the European Union’s Digital Decade

ABSTRACT Published on January 26, 2022, the European Declaration of Digital Rights and Principles (EDDRP) enshrined the European Union’s goals for Europe’s digital future, a document representing the policy agenda of the European Union’s Digital Decade 2030. This policy program and the accompanying declaration aim to expand digital services and outline digital rights. This essay deploys an ideological criticism of the EU’s Digital Decade, specifically in regard to its neoliberal vision of digital citizenship, situated in the context of constitutive rhetoric, neoliberalism, surveillance capitalism, and EU tech regulation. I identify three priorities of the Digital Decade that have declaratory and material manifestations. First, the value of innovation presents democracy as a practice improved through further technological advancement, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Second, the idea of connection to the “digital public sphere” exemplifies the neo-colonial ideology inherent in technoliberalism. Third, the cybersecurity imperative of the Digital Decade reveals the contours of acceptable and unacceptable expressions of citizenship. I situate these three technoliberal features of the Digital Decade as “weak” democratic promises that expose the material limitations of constitutive rhetorics. This essay concludes with a call to technoskepticism, a hermeneutic attuned to the challenges of declaring citizenship practices in digital space.

Newly Qualified Canadian Nurses' Experiences With Digital Health in the Workplace: Comparative Qualitative Analysis.

Clinical practice settings have increasingly become dependent on the use of digital or eHealth technologies such as electronic health records. It is vitally important to support nurses in adapting to digitalized health care systems; however, little is known about nursing graduates' experiences as they transition to the workplace. This study aims to (1) describe newly qualified nurses' experiences with digital health in the workplace, and (2) identify strategies that could help support new graduates' transition and practice with digital health. An exploratory descriptive qualitative design was used. A total of 14 nurses from Eastern and Western Canada participated in semistructured interviews and data were analyzed using inductive content analysis. Three themes were identified: (1) experiences before becoming a registered nurse, (2) experiences upon joining the workplace, and (3) suggestions for bridging the gap in transition to digital health practice. Findings revealed more similarities than differences between participants with respect to gaps in digital health education, technology-related challenges, and their influence on nursing practice. Digital health is the foundation of contemporary health care; therefore, comprehensive education during nursing school and throughout professional nursing practice, as well as organizational support and policy, are critical pillars. Health systems investing in digital health technologies must create supportive work environments for nurses to thrive in technologically rich environments and increase their capacity to deliver the digital health future.