Hello everybody!
I am Christoph the new oikos Associate and I am working on the topic of Digital Economy (DE). First of all I want to thank oikos and Engagement Migros for giving me this opportunity to work on this very interesting topic.
The most important task to understand, if you are working in this field, is that you have to FOCUS in certain areas, because there are so many different directions you can take. If you are not doing this, first of all you will lose yourself in too many topics and secondly you absolutely gain no deep knowledge in this areas.
So I think the most interesting topics are Internet of Things (IoT), Sustainability + Rebound Effect, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Retailing + Mobility and I will focus my research in these areas (but they could change over the next 6 months). I will also organize a workshop at the FutureLab 2016 on the topic DE and Education: What changes are needed?
If you have any interesting papers, articles, etc. about DE and/or on of the above topics, I am very happy if you can share them with me (christoph.rappitsch@oikos-international.org).
To keep you all updated about my work I will include my progress in the monthly newsletter and you can also follow me on Twitter (@rappitsch11), where I tweet interesting facts and articles about DE.
Cheers,
Christoph
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