Developing Digital-Environmental Sustainability

This chapter reflects on the salient aspects that emerged throughout the analysis of both digital and environmental policy frameworks, as well as existing practices, to provide some recommendations for interventions aimed at addressing digital-environmental poverty as dimensions of the same social challenge. In so doing, it contextualizes policies and examples proposed throughout the book, encompassing models from Western and non-Western countries. The review aligns with the Action Plan developed by the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability—CODES (“Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age,” CODES, 2022). This plan offers a framework for advancing digital sustainability through collaborative efforts between private and public sectors. Moreover, in light of the empirical study and the practices presented in the previous chapters, it provides some recommendations toward mixed approaches based on interpreting poverty as multidimensional (including its monetary, social, digital, and environmental dimensions).