Digital ecosystem
Encyclopedia
A digital ecosystem is a distributed adaptive open socio-technical system with properties of self-organisation, scalability and sustainability. As an emerging field of study, "digital ecosystems" is informed by knowledge of natural ecosystem
s and is still being defined. The term is used in the computer industry
, the entertainment industry, and most notably the World Economic Forum
.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight....
s and is still being defined. The term is used in the computer industry
Computer industry
Computer industry is a collective term used to describe the whole range of businesses involved in developing computer software, designing computer hardware and computer networking infrastructures, the manufacture of computer components and the provision of information technology services.-See...
, the entertainment industry, and most notably the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
.
See also
- EcosystemEcosystemAn ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight....
- Information ecologyInformation ecologyIn the context of an evolving information society, the term information ecology marks a connection between ecological ideas with the dynamics and properties of the increasingly dense, complex and important digital informational environment and has been gaining progressively wider acceptance in a...
- Knowledge ecosystemKnowledge ecosystemThe idea of a knowledge ecosystem is an approach to knowledge management which claims to foster the dynamic evolution of knowledge interactions between entities to improve decision-making and innovation through improved evolutionary networks of collaboration....
- Media ecologyMedia ecologyMedia ecology is a contested term within media studies having different meanings within European and North American contexts. The North American definition refers to aninterdisciplinary field of media theory and media design involving the study of "symbolic environment, or the socially constructed,...
- Social system
External links
- IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST 2011) - Annual computer scienceComputer scienceComputer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
Conference for Digital Ecosystems and related Technologies - International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2009) - Annual computer scienceComputer scienceComputer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
Conference for interdisciplinary studies on Digital Ecosystems and Analysis - Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute