Green Digitalization - introduction of the digitization’s multi-field impacts - the case of the Corvinus University

Abstract

The article describes the stepwise process of the introduction of digitization and its multi-field impacts through diverse subjects taught in the Budapest Corvinus University. The various aspects of digitalization play ever growing role in most, increasingly in every fields of economy - therefore it has great significance also in handling the climate change related challenges. Due to this broader context the proper introduction of digitalization for students, who has to be prepared for entering soon to the labor market, has truly strategic significance for the higher education as a whole – this article argues. It offers to analyze as a quasi-case study the feed backing processes that in the Corvinus University have led to the emergence of a “Green Digitalization” concept, to its infiltration in multiple subjects, and to the recent idea of transforming it into a separate / independent course. Moreover, as the analysis indicates it is worth to consider this concept also as a useful component for the transformational strategy of the university. Since the digitalization in context of the emerging Anthropocene creates and has to handle multifaceted challenges affecting simultaneously technological, social, business, institutional and ethical aspects its interpretation requires inter- and transdisciplinary approach as well as changes in the framing and in the deployed toolsets.