A technology lens into the operationalization of resiliency and sustainability post Covid-19

Increasing concerns regarding the effects of climate change coupled with extraordinary societal challenges have correspondingly heightened the need to operationalize resiliency to foster socio-economic inclusivity, liberal politics and sustainable development. Technology, society, the environment and ecology are inextricably interwoven and, the inherent vulnerabilities of any delineation of systems are subject to complex transient, intransigent and evolutionary stressors arising from supervening casus fortuitus and other vis major events. This paper posits that memory is an elementary form of technology, and reiterates the view that nature's endowment of enduring memory founds the twinned concepts of resilience and sustainability. The discourse expounds the uncertainty spectrum in terms of opportunity, risk, reliability and resilience and reinforces the belief that the fusing and application of the various forms of technology provide the means for operationalizing resiliency and sustainability in the current digital age of the anthropocene era of Society 5.0. © 2022 IEEE.

ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

It is widely acknowledged that human society is transcending through the era of Society 5.0 which is powered by the rapidly evolving technologies of the fourth industrial revolution. The era is characterized by unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in a highly globalised world. There is also a general understanding that sustainability is the paramount paradigm for the Society 5.0 era. Subsequently, and due to increasing concerns about the effects of climate change, the predominant context has been the environmental dimension of the sustainability paradigm. However, in recent times, economic, business, technology and even socio-political aspects have emerged as other dimensions to study and operationalize the sustainability paradigm. This preliminary paper arises from an on-going examination of the technological dimension of the sustainability paradigm. The study focuses on the sustainability of mobile telecommunications systems, especially given the significance of these systems as highlighted by the impacts of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Copyright © 2021 by Naudé Scribante. Permission granted to IAMOT to publish and use.

Resilience is paramount for managing socio-technological systems during and post Covid-19

The spread of the coronavirus concomitant with the Covid-19 disease both highlight the interconnectedness between systems that serve humanity. These systems are typically portrayed in economic, ecology and environment, physical/technological, and socio-political contexts and maybe delineated in terms of the interconnectedness between these contexts. Any delineated socio-technological system represents an intriguing class of interconnected systems in the novel era of Society 5.0 concomitant with fourth industrial revolution. This article describes a framework and resiliency model for socio-technological systems plus an application of the lens of vulnerability and resilience to a case study energy systems enterprise. It is intriguing that the energy systems enterprise is usurping extant socio-economic robustness thereby undergoing an absorptive phase of resilience. The discourse complements existing body of literature on energy systems and society by emphasizing that the principles of vulnerability and resilience are paramount for sustainable management of socio-technological systems, and more so in a post Covid-19 world. IEEE