A digital ecosystem is a
distributed, adaptive, open socio-technical system with properties of
self-organization,
scalability and
sustainability inspired from natural
ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system formed by Organism, organisms in interaction with their Biophysical environment, environment. The Biotic material, biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and en ...
s. Digital ecosystem models are informed by knowledge of natural ecosystems, especially for aspects related to competition and collaboration among diverse entities. The term is used in the
computer industry, the
entertainment industry, and the
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German ...
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History
The concept of Digital Business Ecosystem was put forward in 2002 by a group of European researchers and practitioners, including Francesco Nachira, Paolo Dini and Andrea Nicolai, who applied the general notion of digital ecosystems to model the process of adoption and development of ICT-based products and services in competitive, highly fragmented markets like the European one
. Elizabeth Chang,
Ernesto Damiani and Tharam Dillon started in 2007 the
IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines.
The IEEE ...
Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference (IEEE DEST).
Richard Chbeir, Youakim Badr, Dominique Laurent, and Hiroshi Ishikawa started in 2009 the
ACMbr>
Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES)
Perspectives
The digital ecosystem metaphor and models have been applied to a number of business areas related to the production and distribution of knowledge-intensive products and services, including higher education.
[Damiani E., Uden, L, & Trisnawaty W]
The future of E-learning: E-learning ecosystem.
Inaugural IEEE Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Conference (IEEE DEST), 2007. The perspective of this research is providing methods and tools to achieve a set of objectives of the ecosystem (e.g. sustainability, fairness, bounded information asymmetry, risk control and gracious failure). These objectives are seen as desirable properties whose emergence should be fostered by the digital ecosystem self-organization, rather than as explicit design goals like in conventional IT.
See also
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Oikos
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Ecology
Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their Natural environment, environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosystem, and biosphere lev ...
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system formed by Organism, organisms in interaction with their Biophysical environment, environment. The Biotic material, biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and en ...
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Information ecosystem
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Software ecosystem
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Platform ecosystem
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Knowledge commons
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Knowledge ecosystem
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Digital distribution
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Media ecology
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Social system
References
External links
International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES)(since 2009) -
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
Conference for interdisciplinary studies on Digital Ecosystems and Analysis
IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST 2012)-
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
Conference for Digital Ecosystems and related Technologies. Held from 2007 to 2013.
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Computing and society
Information systems
Systems
Social systems