Sustainability as a Development Paradigm in the Age of Disruptive Platforms

1. Practice

1.1. Leveraging sustainability concepts to better understand the role of cyberspace governance models in shaping digital ecosystems and regulating Digital platforms in the emerging markets of the Asia-Pacific region.

2. Development

2.1. Rights, Social Justice, and Sustainable Digital Inclusion

2.2. Sustainable Development

2.3. Political Economy of Digitalization

2.4. Decoloniality and Digital Colonialism

2.5. Development as Freedom

2.6. Digital Capitalism

2.7. The Digital Divide

3. Sustainability

3.1. Firms and Sustainability

3.2. "Just" Sustainability

3.3. Social research and Social Sustainability

3.4. Digital Platforms and Sustainability

4. Digital Ecosystems

4.1. Digital Platforms

4.2. Platform Disruption

4.3. Disruptive Innovation

4.4. Ethics of designing hyper-scaled platforms

5. Cyberspace Governance

5.1. Sovereigntist vs Liberal Cyberspace Governance Ideologies

5.2. Regulating Global Digital Platforms

5.3. Post-Hegemonic Multilateralism

5.4. Multi-Stakeholderism

5.5. Institutions

6. Theory

6.1. Sustainability and the incommensurability of sustainable development trade-offs:

6.1.1. Envisaging sustainability as a social phenomenon

6.1.2. Social equity and the dominant sustainability concepts in the age of digital platforms

7. Unit 2: Digital Society and Sustainability Theories

7.1. Paper 1: How sustainable are the dominant sustainability concepts in the age of digital platforms?

7.1.1. The Intersection of Digital Platform Ecosystems and Sustainable Development Research

8. Unit 1: Sustainability Management (SEED)

9. Unit 3: Conceptualizing the role of Platforms in Sustainable Development

9.1. Paper 2: The Intersection of Digital Platform Ecosystems and Sustainable Development Research

10. Unit 4: Rights, Social Justice, and Sustainable Digital Inclusion

11. Unit 5: The Intersections of Digital Technologies, Values, and Social Sustainability

11.1. Paper 3: A critical reflection on Social Sustainability Concepts in the age of Digital Platforms

12. Unit 6: Digital Labour, Digital Economy, and Disruptive Innovation

12.1. Paper 4: Disruptive Innovation and Social Change: How Digital Technology Development Concepts Influence the Broader Sustainable Development Approaches

13. Unit 7: Role of Governance in shaping the Political Ecology of Digital Ecosystems

13.1. Emerging Cyberspace Governance Norms: A Fusion of Multi-stakeholderism and Multilateralism?

14. Unit 8: Current Debates on Digital Capitalism

14.1. Paper 5: Two Faces of Digitalization