A Study on the Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Digitalization

This paper examines the key changes in terms of digitalization inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments imposed restrictions as a consequence of the global pandemic, resulting in significant changes in people's daily lives as well as in professional environments. A significant number of...

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Published in:Economy informatics 2020-01, Vol.20 (1), p.5-22
Main Authors: Georgescu, Tiberiu-Marian, Pantelimon, Florin-Valeriu, Posedaru, Bogdan-Ştefan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Digitization
Hypotheses
Indicators
Online instruction
Social networks
Software
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Summary:This paper examines the key changes in terms of digitalization inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments imposed restrictions as a consequence of the global pandemic, resulting in significant changes in people's daily lives as well as in professional environments. A significant number of people faced difficulties continuing their previous activities and in order to adapt, they often had to rely on using information technology. Our hypothesis is that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalization on a global scale. We divided the technologies into two categories: traditional and modern and studied each one separately. We compared the results of several indicators in 2020 with their forecasted values based on previous years when the pandemic had no (significant) influence yet. The results show a significant increase for both studied categories for the values of the indicators from 2020 compared to the forecasted ones, which validates our hypothesis.
ISSN:1582-7941
2247-8523