Digital Industry Research Articles

Research on the Relationship Between Digital Transformation and Urban and Rural industrial Integration and Development

This study explores the relationship between digital transformation and the integrated development of urban and rural industries. In the context of economic and social development in the 21st century, the integration of urban and rural development has become an important part of the national strategy, aiming to break the urban-rural dual structure and achieve common prosperity through institutional innovation and technology application. The study found that digital transformation introduces advanced information technology, changes the traditional production management mode, improves efficiency and efficiency, and provides new impetus for the integration of urban and rural industries. This paper analyzes the role mechanism, actual effect, and challenges of digital transformation in urban and rural integration, and predicts the future development trend. The policy proposal emphasizes the deep integration of technology and traditional industries, promoting the development of digital industries, and the two-way flow of urban and rural factors. The forecast shows that the proportion of the primary industry will decline, the innovation capacity of the secondary industry will be enhanced, and the tertiary industry will become the dominant economy. Digital transformation will play a key role in urban-rural integration, promoting the optimization of industrial structure and urban-rural integration.

On the Legal Concept of Metaverses

The paper offers a detailed model of the legal concept of metaverses. The scientific impetus for this discourse was the foreign practice of developing metaverses, which have become national priorities for a number of states. According to the author’s position, the metaverse is a direction (area) of digital technology development for the formation of a digital space for various types of social and public activities with imitation of the personal presence of the user. The components of the metaverse interact with each other, are in dynamic balance, creating a digital industry. The industry of the metaverse is at a stage of continuous evolution and development. It consists of five main systems, including a technological system, a system of standards, a system of digital products, a service and warranty system. Based on this conclusion, the author systematizes approaches to the development of legal regulation of relations in the metaverses in order to consolidate the country’s technological leadershipin this promising direction. As the metaverse evolves, it may become a promising space for the circulation of digital data and the implementation of other ambitious projects of the digital economy. However, the emergence of new threats and risks in artificial virtual worlds requires the development and adoption of a concept of legal understanding of metaverses, as well as the advanced study of Russian legislation guaranteeing human rights and freedoms in metaverses.

Model Peningkatan E-Satisfaction Berbasis Online Shopping Experience dan Customer Engagement Konsumen Shopee di Kota Jambi

This research aims to analyze a model for increasing e-satisfaction based on online shopping experience and online customer engagement for Shopee marketplace consumers in the city of Jambi. The choice of Shopee e-commerce is one of the marketplaces that is developing in the digital industry in Indonesia. This research uses quantitative descriptive methods with the population of the city of Jambi in 2021, namely 612,162 people. The number of samples was determined based on the Slovin formula used, that the number of samples used in this research was 100 respondents. The analytical tools used are the Likert scale and multiple linear regression. The research results reveal that the better the online shopping experience and online customer engagement, the higher the e-satisfaction of Jambi city Shopee marketplace consumers. Simultaneously and partially, the online shopping experience and online customer engagement variables have a significant effect on shopee marketplace consumer e-satisfaction in the city of Jambi.

The spatiotemporal characteristics and obstacle factors of the coupled and coordinated development of agricultural and rural digitalization and food system sustainability in China

IntroductionThe sustainable development of China’s food system is an essential requirement for realizing the digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas and the main target for the big release of agricultural and rural digitalization dividends and the scale of feedback. What are the current trends of change in China’s agricultural and rural digitization and sustainable development of the food system? Have they achieved a high level of coordinated development? What are the factors constraining their coordinated development?MethodsThis work is based on 30 Chinese provincial administrative areas from 2011 to 2020. We adopt the entropy weight method to calculate the comprehensive development index of the agricultural and rural digitization and food system sustainability, respectively. The coupling degree and coupling coordination degree of the two systems are calculated by applying the coupling coordination degree model. The obstacle degree model was used to diagnose the obstacles constraining the coupling and coordinated development of the coupled systems.ResultsThis study found that the development index of China’s provincial agricultural and rural digitization and food system sustainability increased gradually from 2011 to 2020. The coupling of the two systems is mainly in the high-level coupling stage, but the coupling coordination degree is primarily in the low and medium coupling coordination intervals. These results are heterogeneous across China’s four geographic regions: east, center, west, and northeast. The level of rural digital platform construction and rural digital industrialization is the most essential indicator-level and element-level barriers to agricultural and rural digitalization, respectively. Per capita food possession and food stability are, respectively, the most critical indicator-level and element-level barriers to the food system sustainability.DiscussionThe research in this work contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary trends in agriculture and rural digitalization and the food system sustainability in the country as a whole and within the country. Although the two systems have not achieved a high level of coordinated development, the coupling degree and coupled coordination degree show a positive feedback relationship. The analysis of the obstacle factors helps to recognize the main bottlenecks constraining the coupled and coordinated development of the systems at a more specific level.

The Impact of Digital Development on Port Security Resilience—An Empirical Study from Chinese Provinces

As the world transitions into the post-pandemic era, ports in various countries are experiencing increased activity, leading to significant challenges in ensuring traffic safety within port jurisdictions. It is essential to explore methods to improve port security resilience to maintain regular economic and trade exchanges. This article examines the influence of digital development on port security resilience. Firstly, the provincial digital development level score is objectively evaluated from the perspective of digital infrastructure, digital application, and digital industry development. Secondly, the port safety resilience score is assessed considering water traffic safety, rescue and recovery capabilities, and operational efficiency. Lastly, the focus is on 16 provinces in China’s coastal and Yangtze River Economic Belt, establishing provincial panel data from 2010 to 2019, and empirically analyzing the direct impact of digital development on the resilience of port security. The results indicate that digital development enhances the resilience of port security, with significant heterogeneity and long-term effects observed.

Implementation of Blue Ocean Strategy in Facing Business Competition: A Startup Case Study of Lapangbola.Com

Research aims: This study discusses the specific blue ocean strategy employed by lapangbola.com to emerge successful in the business competition.Design/Methodology/Approach: This study employed a descriptive qualitative methodology, utilizing interviews with relevant individuals (Operations and Marketing managers) from lapangbola.com. The analysis was conducted using the Blue Ocean Strategy, employing a strategy canvas, a four-step framework, and a six-step framework for data gathering.Research findings: A business competition strategy employs a blue ocean strategy approach that originates from business innovation, encompassing product development, operational enhancements, and the utilization of efficient digital marketing channels.Theoretical Contribution/Originality: This research serves as valuable information for decision-makers, particularly in startup firms, seeking to enhance their business growth by adopting a blue ocean strategy approach. The successful implementation of this technique by lapangbola.com, a startup business in the sports industry, further exemplifies its effectiveness.Practitioners/Policy Implications: Startup companies or businesses in the digital industry might employ a blue ocean strategy, characterized by a rigorous, flexible, and inventive approach, to analyze the market and formulate an effective formula for company development.Research Limitations/Implications: The limitations of this research are found in the secondary data (literature studies) used, this is because not many businesses have consciously implemented blue ocean strategy simultaneously using canvas strategies, 4-step frameworks and 6-step frameworks. More in-depth analysis is needed on the implementation of the blue ocean business strategy that will be carried out at each startup.

VIRTUAL REALITY-BASED DIGITAL MARKETING DEVELOPMENT TRAINING FOR THE TOURISM AWARENESS GROUP OF TROWULAN TOURISM VILLAGE, MOJOKERTO REGENCY

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the tourism industry since its emergence in late 2019. Visitor restrictions have led to a significant decline in activity across various sub-sectors of tourism, and prospective travelers have experienced burnout due to isolation. In such a situation, the digital industry has emerged as a rapid and interim solution. One intriguing digital technology that has garnered attention is Virtual Reality (VR). These efforts have been undertaken to ensure the sustainability of tourism destinations, and VR technology has piqued the interest of potential tourists. Despite its effective role in virtual promotion and learning, particularly for cultural heritage and archaeological sites like the Trowulan Site, stakeholders need to be supported through education on immersive technologies such as VR and their utilization in tourism and education, especially in the field of history. The adoption of VR technology in tourism destinations has experienced significant growth, but issues have arisen due to the lack of Human Resources (HR) related to VR Tourism content creation. As a result, the presentation of VR Tourism experiences has been delayed in terms of content updates, which can have a detrimental impact on the image of the tourism destination, potentially undermining its full potential. Awareness of this issue has been recognized by the Tourism Awareness Group (Pokdarwis) Ladewa, a stakeholder involved in the management of tourism destinations and travel packages in the Trowulan region. To address this issue, a proposed solution involves training related to VR Tourism and Social Media Content Creation as part of the digital marketing strategy for the tourism destination. This training will primarily focus on tourism themes with a sub-theme of enhancing the capacity of the Tourism Awareness Group (POKDARWIS) LADEWA.

Digitization and carbon emissions: how does the development of China's digital economy affect carbon intensity?

The digital economy and the pursuit of carbon peak and carbon neutrality have emerged as crucial focal points for China's future development. However, the intricate relationship between the digital economy and carbon intensity remains uncertain. Based on the construction of the digital economy evaluation index system, using panel data for 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2019, this study estimates the impact of the digital economy development on carbon intensity by adopting the system-generalized method of moments (SYS-GMM) technique. The results show that the digital economy can effectively reduce the carbon intensity. This conclusion was supported by robustness tests. However, the carbon emission reduction effect of the digital economy exhibits heterogeneity with respect to the digital economy dimensions and regions. In addition to digital industrialization and industrial digitization reducing the carbon intensity, the digital economy development carrier has an inverted U-shaped nonlinear relationship with carbon intensity. Additionally, the digital economy has a more obvious inhibitory effect on carbon intensity in the eastern region. Most importantly, besides the mediating effects of technological progress and financial development, this paper finds that the digital economy can increase carbon intensity through human capital accumulation. These conclusions provide a certain scientific basis for the effective implementation of China's digital economy and carbon peak and carbon-neutral development strategy.

A digital economy development index based on an improved hierarchical data envelopment analysis approach

The digital economy is playing an increasingly important role in the global economy. National and international organizations commonly utilize a composite index composed of multi-dimensional indicators to monitor performance, analyse policies, and communicate in the digital economy. This study introduces a hierarchical framework for constructing a Digital Economy Development Index (DEDI). One of the key challenges is determining the attribute weights to be assigned by aggregating the sub-indicators with hierarchical dimensions for DEDI. The current study shows that an H-DEA model can be transformed into a parametric linear programming problem and develops an improved golden section algorithm to search for approximate optimal solutions. The newly developed method is highly robust and provides an alternative procedure to determine the optimal weights for building a DEDI. We established a hierarchical evaluation framework and utilized a new approach to measure the DEDI of 30 provinces in China from 2015 to 2020. The results show that inter-provincial digital economy development in China shows a sequential weakening from the east, centre, and northeast to the west. The East leads the country's digital economy overall, while there is a clear gradient gap between provinces. The central region needs to create a cluster for the development of digital industries. The Northeast should enhance the competitiveness of the industry across the board. The West must strengthen the construction of innovative talent and new infrastructure for the digital economy. These findings can serve as guidelines for designing China's ongoing digital economy development.

Mobile Applications to Support Multiple Sclerosis Communities: The Post-COVID-19 Scenario.

Introduction: The increase in the use of mobile apps since the COVID-19 pandemic, even among people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) and health care providers (HCPs), has enabled access to reliable information, symptoms monitoring and management, and social connections. The pandemic has undoubtedly contributed to the acceleration of the "digital revolution." But how far has it progressed for the MS communities? Methods: Italian Google Play and App Store were queried, selecting MS-specific apps in English or Italian language and usable by a wide public. Results: Fifty-four (n = 54) MS-specific apps were identified; most were PwMS-oriented (83%), free of charge (94%), and in English language (76%). The 45 PwMS-oriented apps focused on increasing MS knowledge (71%), tracking symptoms (33%), and promoting networking with peers or HCPs (38%). The 13 HCPs-oriented tools addressed education and updates on MS (62%), disease assessment and management (54%), and research (15%). Google Search tool was also queried to find non-MS-specific apps to fulfill some unmet domains (as sleep, pain, sexual or mental health). Twenty-four additional apps were listed to provide a valuable contribution. Conclusion: The "digital revolution" led to increasingly customized tools for PwMS, especially as m-health or social-networking apps. However, apps to support other specific MS-relevant domains, appealing HCPs-oriented apps, and specific mobile tools for MS caregivers are still lacking. The absence of data assessing the usability and quality of MS apps in ecologically contexts leads to not reliable conclusions about potential benefits. A strong dialogue between MS communities and the digital industry is encouraged to fill this gap.

The impact of industrial digitization on the global value chains position: Evidence from China’ s industry sectors

Industrial digitization (ID) has become a new driving force for high-quality development of industries. Existing studies have mainly examined the global value chains position (GVCP) in terms of openness and technological progress, and there are a few studies from the perspective of industrial digitization. This paper constructs an input-output model to measure the GVCP of China's industry sectors by use the world input-output database (WIOD), and empirically tests the impact of ID on the GVCP of China's industry sectors by constructing ID indicators. The conclusions of the study are shown below. First, ID significantly enhances the GVCP of China's industry sectors, which can drive the industry sectors to realize value chain climbing. Second, mechanism analyses shows that ID can enhance the GVCP by increasing export technology complexity and revealed comparative advantage of China's industry sectors. Third, ID mainly influences the forward production lengths, and ID boosts GVCP more significantly for technology-intensive and pollution-intensive sectors. Fourth, the economic consequences show that ID decreases energy intensity and labor employment by improving the GVCP of China's industry sectors. Based on the findings, we believe that upgrading the digitization of industry sectors is an effective measure to drive up the value chains.

(191) Contraception: How Ecology and Gender Equality are the New Deal

Abstract Introduction Since more than 10 years health care providers often hear from their patients that they want a natural contraception without hormones because of their potentials side-effects on bodies and environment by water contamination. In fact numerous scientific articles available on the web etablish that steroid hormones in wastewater are micropollutants and endocrine disruptors, especially wastewater treatment plants can not eradicate synthetic progestins after excretion. Nevertheless the situation remains paradoxical since the morning-after pill contains up to 50 times more hormones than the daily pill and is widely used, in France 2,2 millions of morning-after pills are sold each year. Looking for "green solutions", users are turning to menstruations apps, but are they aware of the pollution generated by materials and operations of digital industries? This is another paradox in the new contraceptive behaviours. Objective know different possible causes of contraceptive refusal take into account potential environmental effects when prescribing contraceptives and opt for the least polluting solutions. be aware of the environmental impact of digital health techniques take account of claims for gender-equal contraception Methods Literature review on PubMed for the 12 last months, Google Scholar since 2 years and mainstream media with the keywords: hormonal contraception and water pollution contraception and ecology Contraceptives residues and health Data Centers pollution contraception and gender equality Male contraception Results On Google Scholar numerous articles deal with the pollution of waste water and drinking water by steroid hormones at concentrations ranging from ng/L to g/L. Synthetic hormone compounds toxicity is widely recognized and can affect cell metabolism, causing various diseases such as obesity, infertility, endocrine disorders, even neoplasia or neuro-degenerative disease, although the effect of environmental synthetic hormones on the nervous system is still poorly documented. These data are public and can influence contraceptive behaviours On PubMed the focus is on endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as phtalates, dioxins, polychlorinated-biphenyl, biphenol A and analogs, I found only 2 surveys about residues of synthetic human hormones. 21 relevant surveys are found on PubMed about gender equality in contraception: these studies show an emerging interesr among men in controlling their fertilizing power, but a low support of pharmaceutical industries, leading them to use restrictive methods such as thermal contraception. Conclusions This work aims to highlight the contraceptive shift in progress. Consumers claim an ecological position, but use methods that contradict their stated convictions, such as morning-after pill or menstruations app causing digital pollution. Men want to involve themself in their reproductive health but are they heard enough? A low-risk, inexpensive and non-pollutante method such as vasectomy is still subject to false beliefs due to a lack of information and education, male hormonal contraception remains anecdotal (only in France). These observations highlight the role of the health care providers in sexual and reproductive health education and counselling, and of the industry's support, listening to people. Disclosure No.

Effects of digital entrepreneurial activity on GTFP in Chinese cities

GreenTotal Factor Productivity (GTFP) is a critical indicator for measuring the green development and transformation of the economy, with profound implications for achieving energy conservation and developing the economy. In the context of the digital economy, digital entrepreneurship, as one of the important channels for digital industrialization, will have an effect on the promotion of GTFP. This study combines panel data from 219 Chinese cities at the prefectural level and above from 2007 to 2020 to examine the effect of digital entrepreneurship activities on GTFP. The empirical results show that digital entrepreneurial activity significantly reduces both GTFP and energy efficiency. Meanwhile, the effect of digital entrepreneurship activity on GTFP through industrial structure upgrading is not significant. Furthermore, a substantial negative correlation is identified between GTFP and digital entrepreneurship activity in the digital manufacturing industry, and in the eastern and central region.

CM-GAN: A Cross-Modal Generative Adversarial Network for Imputing Completely Missing Data in Digital Industry.

Multimodal data fusion analysis is essential to model the uncertainty of environment awareness in digital industry. However, due to communication failure and cyberattack, the sampled time-series data often have the issue of data missing. In some extreme cases, part of units are unobservable for a long time, which results in complete data missing (CDM). To impute missing data, many models have been proposed. However, they cannot address the CDM issue, because no observation data of the unobservable units can be obtained in this case. Thus, to address the CDM issue, a novel cross-modal generative adversarial network (CM-GAN) is proposed in this article. It combines the cross-modal data fusion technique and the deep adversarial generation technique to construct a cross-modal data generator. This generator can generate long-term time-series data from widely existing spatio-temporal modal data in modern industrial system, and then impute missing value by replacing them with generated data. To test the performance of CM-GAN, extensive experiments are conducted on photovoltaic (PV) power output dataset. Compared with other baseline models, the performance of CM-GAN is generally better and reaches the state-of-the-art level. Moreover, sufficient ablation studies are conducted to present the contribution of the cross-modal data fusion technique and show the reasonability of parameter settings of CM-GAN. Apart from this, some prediction experiments are also conducted. The results show that the PV data recovered by CM-GAN can provide more predictability information for improving the prediction accuracy of deep learning model.

Carbon Accounting in the Digital Industry: The Need to Move towards Decision Making in Uncertainty.

In this paper, we present findings from a qualitative interview study, which highlights the difficulties and challenges with quantifying carbon emissions and discusses how to move productively through these challenges by drawing insights from studies of deep uncertainty. Our research study focuses on the digital sector and was governed by the following research question: how do practitioners researching, working, or immersed in the broad area of sustainable digitisation (researchers, industry, NGOs, and policy representatives) understand and engage with quantifying carbon? Our findings show how stakeholders struggled to measure carbon emissions across complex systems, the lack of standardisation to assist with this, and how these challenges led stakeholders to call for more data to address this uncertainty. We argue that these calls for more data obscure the fact that there will always be uncertainty, and that we must learn to govern from within it.

The Impact of Digital Economy on High Quality Urban Development: A Case Study of 21 Prefectural Cities in Guangdong Province

The digital economy has gradually become an important driving force for high-quality economic development. Based on the relevant data of 21 prefecture level cities in Guangdong Province from 2011-2021, this paper specifically analyzes the differences in the comprehensive scores of each city under the factors of livelihood, finance, transportation and scientific research. The research results show that the digital economy in Guangdong Province has a significant role in promoting high-quality urban development in terms of digital technology, digital industry development and digital ecological construction.

Does Urban Digital Construction Promote Economic Growth? Evidence from China

In order to explore the causal relationship between the level of urban digital construction and urban economic growth, this paper takes 280 cities in China as the research object and constructs a comprehensive indicator evaluation system covering digital infrastructure, overall economic level, innovation development level, digital industry development status, and ecological environment conditions. Using the entropy method to weigh various indicators, this paper has obtained the evaluation results of the digital construction level of each city from 2011 to 2021. Furthermore, a panel data regression model is used to empirically analyze the impact of urban digital construction level on urban economic growth. The results show that for every 1% increase in the level of urban digital construction, the GDP will increase by 0.974. Through the above research, we hope to further enrich the theoretical and empirical research in the field of the digital economy, provide a scientific and reasonable method for quantitatively evaluating the level of urban digital construction, and provide decision-making references for improving the level of urban digital construction and promoting sustainable urban development.

The impact of venture capital on the digital industry development: evidence from China

Promoting digital industry development is an important path to accelerating high‐quality economic development. Using the net growth rate of number of digital enterprises to measure the digital industry development and the data at the city level in China from 2005 to 2016 as a sample, this study analyses the mechanisms through which venture capital impacts on digital industry development. This study finds that the increase in venture capital will promote the digital industry development. The impact of the increase in venture capital on the digital industry development is mainly achieved by reducing the exit rate of digital enterprises. In inland areas and non‐city group, the increase in venture capital can significantly promote the digital industry development and the magnitude of the impact is greater.

User Interface Design Prototype Application Special Onthel Bicycle Tourism in Towilfiets Yogyakarta

Foreign tourist visits to Yogyakarta, Indonesia have increased in 2022 and 2023 after Covid-19. Many tourists are seeking unique experiences, such as riding on bicycles to enjoy the beautiful scenery and interact with local residents. Towilfiets, a pioneer in onthel bicycle tourism, has been operating in Bantar Hamlet, Kulon Progo for around 10 years. With the growing demand for this activity, Towilfiets needed to innovate their promotion methods, specifically in the digital industry. The development of a user-interface design-based application became crucial to enhance and facilitate the onthel bicycle tourism experience at Towilfiets. The research conducted used a mixed method approach with a phenomenological qualitative method to gather interview data. The prototype method was chosen to allow for intensive and better communication between developers and users. The validation of the questionnaire data was calculated using the Scalable Usage System and received a good score 75 up to score 100 point, indicating acceptable usability. By focusing on user needs and the unique characteristics of tourist destinations, this application aims to increase user engagement and provide relevant and useful information about bicycle tourist attractions in the area. Ultimately, the research aims to develop an innovative and contextualized user interface design application that supports the growth of onthel bike tourism in Towilfiets, located in Dusun Bantar, Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Understanding the Role of Smart Specialization Strategies (S3) within a Regional Innovation System: Evidence from Digital Industries in the Yangtze River Delta, China

In response to Boschma’s concern that the implications of relatedness- and unrelatedness-based diversification strategies lack empirical evidence at disaggregated levels and in the context of the Global South, this study generates a unique dataset at the city level and explores how these smart specialization strategies (S3) may explain digital industry innovations within a specific regional innovation system, i.e., the Yangtze River Delta, China. The findings reveal that both relatedness density and knowledge complexity play a positive role in explaining digital industry innovations. However, the relationship between relatedness and knowledge complexity and its interactive effects on innovation performance are less straightforward. In our study, we found that efficient cooperation between relatedness and complexity can only be achieved if the level of government intervention is moderate. Therefore, the discussion of S3 focuses on more than the dichotomous argument between relatedness and unrelatedness. Many socio-economic factors also impact the effectiveness of these theoretical components within different innovation systems, which are largely overlooked by present studies.