World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2025

Table of contents

Elsevier,

Digital Innovation for Healthcare in COVID-19 Pandemic: Strategies and Solutions, 2022, pp 109-136

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 5: Gender Equality, and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by illustrating how digital health and gender empowerment can reduce inequities related to social determinants of health.
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Resilient Health: Leveraging Technology and Social Innovations to Transform Healthcare for COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond, 2024, pp 71-87

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 5: Gender Equality, and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by discussing the potential for digital health technologies to exacerbate existing systemic and structure inequalities, and the ways in which we can avoid this.
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Resilient Health, 2024, Pages 1085-1098

This content addresses SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG-10 (Reduced inequalities), aligns with the World Health Organization’s goal to promote universal health coverage, and aims to help close the health treatment gap that keeps remote, underserved communities from accessing needed quality health services.

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Accelerating Strategic Changes for Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Industry: Information Technologies in Healthcare Industry, 2023, pp 323-362

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 5: Gender Equality, and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by discussing the digitial health transformation opportunities enabled by Covid-19, as well as the associated issues that must be considered.
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Sex and Gender Bias in Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Biomedicine and Healthcare Applications, 2022, pp 77-93

This content aligns with Goal 5: Gender Equality and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by providing an overview of the risks of sex and gender biases in Artificial Intelligence evolution, and the ways in which we can prevent them.
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Sex and Gender Bias in Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Biomedicine and Healthcare Applications, 2022, pp 57-75

This content aligns with Goal 5: Gender Equality and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by providing an overview of the challenges and opportunities associated with Big Data in healthcare, from a sex and gender perspective.
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Shaping the Future of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Towards Technological Advances and Service Innovations, 2023, pp 3-31

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the mental health threats and potential benefits of digital technology use by children and adolescents, with a focus on sex and age-related differences.
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Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 79, 2023, pp 243-270

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the potential of new technologies, such as technology-based interventions and recovery-oriented mobile applications, to minimize inequalities in substance abuse care accessibility.
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The Digital Doctor: How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare, 2025, pp 167-177

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring how digital health can improve personalized oncological care for different populations.
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The Digital Doctor: How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare, 2025, pp 341-355

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring how digital health can improve personalized kidney disease care for different populations.
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Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction: The State of the Science and Vision for the Future, 2023, pp 205-217

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by considering the potential ethical issues that may arise with digital therapeutics intended for mental health care for different populations.
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Advances in Computers, Volume 128, 2023, pp 423-443

This content aligns with Goal 5: Gender Equality and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by considering cyber crime emergence, detection, and the populations that may be most affected.
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Intelligent Environments: Advanced Systems for a Healthy Planet, Second Edition, 2023, pp 285-322

This content aligns with Goal 5: Gender Equality and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by discussing the potential of smart technologies to improve safety and gender equity in urban environments.
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Computational Intelligence and Blockchain in Complex Systems: System Security and Interdisciplinary Applications, 2024, pp 199-204

This content aligns with Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring the educational opportunities of artificial intelligence and considering how to ensure the ethical, inclusive, and equitable use of these technologies for all populations.
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Responsible Artificial Intelligence Re-engineering the Global Public Health Ecosystem: A Humanity Worth Saving, 2024, pp 215-243

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by considering the public health opportunities presented by artificial intelligence, as well as the need for more inclusive representation in key public health topics.

Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Research Open, Volume 9, December 2025
This scoping review aims to identify trends in studies related to children's online safety education facilitated by digital technologies. The review is guided by the five-stage framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley.
Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 113, March 2025
This paper explores the digital imaginaries presented in the educational governance and policy landscape of Colombia through the lens of rurality. It interrogates one policy instrument, namely CONPES 3988, which establishes the importance of digital technologies in national-level educational policies and subsequent strategies.
Elsevier, Software Impacts, Volume 23, March 2025
DeepPack3D: a new open-source Python package that harnesses the power of deep reinforcement learning and innovative heuristics to tackle the complexities of 3D bin packing. With features like customizable lookahead values and real-time visualization, it's designed to empower researchers and developers to push the boundaries of what's possible in supply chain management.
Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 10, 30 November 2024
This paper presented a novel blockchain-based PSCM framework that addresses the critical challenges of privacy, authentication, and data provenance in traditional online systems.
Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 10, 30 November 2024
This comprehensive examination of the relevant academic literature highlights the dual aspects of integrating AI into educational settings.
Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 10, 15 November 2024
This paper provides an in-depth exploration of the current state and future trends of AI technology in graphic design using the critical interpretive synthesis approach.
Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 10, 30 October 2024
This system addresses issues arising from insufficient acquisition and sharing of medical information across multiple institutions and sources.
Elsevier, Studies in Educational Evaluation, Volume 82, September 2024
This study investigates the key factors that impact the digitalized-education, and what those mean for the new and emerging educational models of learning. .
Elsevier, Telematics and Informatics Reports, Volume 14, June 2024
This paper addresses the underexplored environmental impacts of ICT by systematically reviewing 70 studies, identifying common assessment methods and mechanisms, and categorizing solutions into eight main classes within a comprehensive framework. It also evaluates how these solutions align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting research gaps and policy implications to better mitigate ICT’s adverse environmental effects.
Elsevier, Telematics and Informatics, Volume 85, November 2023
This research analyzes how socioeconomic and geographical factors influence the development of advanced digital skills in Spain from 2015 to 2021, finding that socioeconomic factors have a greater impact than geographical ones, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also highlights increased digital skills among employed and unemployed populations, the significance of education and daily internet use, and regional disparities, particularly between Madrid and other areas.
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Results in Engineering, Volume 25, 2025, 103867

The authors propose a multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) approach to evaluate and select digital voting tools that facilitate public participation in urban transport decision-making.

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Telematics and Informatics Reports, Volume 7, September 2022

This Article supports SDG 11 by investigating the impact of environmental sustainability in a developing nation (South Africa) through information and communication.
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Digital Chemical Engineering, Volume 14, March 2025, 100217

This research introduces APAH, an innovative IoT-based autonomous real-time monitoring system designed for industrial wastewater management, particularly in developing countries like India. By integrating multi-parameter sensors and advanced technologies such as machine learning, APAH continuously tracks key water quality metrics and enables timely interventions through automated controls and alerts, demonstrating significant improvements in water quality at industrial treatment plants in Maharashtra.

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Societal Impacts, Volume 3, June 2024, 100047

Recent scholarly endeavors in the domain of Cyber Intelligence have unveiled its multifaceted implications, intricately interwoven with various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably encompassing Goal 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions), among others.

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Societal Impacts, Volume 3, June 2024, 100044

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research have opened up new opportunities for leveraging AI research for societal impacts. AI research offers novel ways of tackling societal problems including environmental, health, and education challenges. Despite the potential, there are limited documented use cases and methodologies for translating AI research to societal impact at a large scale. This paper presents AirQo, an AI and advanced technology-driven use case for urban environmental pollution monitoring and modelling and the resulting societal impacts that have been realised.

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Patterns, Volume 6, 11 April 2025

Big data shows significant potential for deep decarbonization in the transportation sector, while advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies help extracting valuable knowledge from such data. This study reviews the applications of big data and AI technologies in transportation, encompassing data accumulation, pattern understanding, and uncovering the intricate nexus between transportation activities and carbon emissions, ultimately providing insights for achieving carbon neutrality.
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Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 152, 1 January 2024

A comprehensive survey of the current research on using Blockchain and Federated Learning (FL) to enhance Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks. It examines the security challenges faced by IIoT systems, the potential threats, and the state-of-the-art approaches that leverage Blockchain and FL to address these issues.
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Computer Communications, Volume 201, 1 March 2023

The study discusses the fundamental concepts of blockchain technology, including cryptography, hash functions, digital signatures, and Merkle trees. Providing an in-depth presentation of the mechanism for reaching consensus.
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Computer Communications, Volume 212, 1 December 2023

The autonomous vehicles can provide real-time information about traffic conditions, congestion, accidents, and other events to the city's infrastructure. This data can help city planners optimize traffic signals, reroute traffic, and make better decisions to reduce congestion and improve overall traffic flow.
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Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Volume 44, March 2025

The authors focus on evaluating green manufacturing strategies in the wire and cable industry using a modified Z-DEMATEL approach. It discusses the key criteria, their interrelationships, and the implications for decision-makers in promoting sustainable practices within the industry.