1. Dimensions of the digital and collaborative economy

Digitization covers the digitization and processing of all types of data and their storage on a computer medium. It enables the automation of even the most repetitive tasks.

But the latest advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) – artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data, cloud computing, robo-advisoring, the Internet of Things... – have extended the phenomenon of digitalization to increasingly complex activities.

Since the 2000s, this acceleration of history has meant that digitization has been represented successively as an evolution, a transformation, a mutation, a metamorphosis, a revolution