Posted by Alumni from WEF
August 23, 2024
Making infrastructure sustainable requires us to combine the real and digital worlds. By leveraging data for informed decision-making, we drive more efficient asset management, more profitable business, and, most importantly, more sustainable operations'all of which support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Is data really 'the new oil'' Unlike the latter, the torrent of ones and zeroes ' if processed and measured ' can be harnessed to make infrastructure more sustainable. Digitalization is the key to achieving improvements in efficiency, profitability, and especially sustainability. Investment in digitalization yields returns in the most energy-intensive industries, the most life-critical facilities and the most remote locations. While the hinge between the real and digital worlds is often invisible, digitalization is our most powerful tool for sustainable transformation. Let's explore its value in more detail. The volume of data passing through IP networks and stored in... learn more