Digital Sustainability

Catherine Mulligan is an internationally recognised expert in digital technologies for sustainability and resilience. She has worked at numerous international research institutions, including Imperial College London and University College London, building bridges between research, policy and practice. She previously served as a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and as a member of the United Nations Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. Catherine is the founder of Digital Crossroads, a lab designed to deliver impactful, future-focused work for the 21st century. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden.Shivam Kishore has spent nearly two decades at the intersection of digital transformation and sustainability. He has led enterprise-scale digital strategies for Fortune 100 tech and financial institutions at EY and Deloitte, and has advised national governments across Africa, Asia and North America on building national data and digital policies. As the Senior Advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme, he guided the development of UNEP's global digital transformation strategy. He is also a board advisor and active investor in tech and social innovation startups with successful exits, and teaches digital strategy and technology governance as a Professor of Practice at the University of Hawaiʻi. He is based in Vancouver, Canada.

"In a world that has built confidence on the brittle logic of control, this book is the compass we didn't know we were missing - one that quietly relocates the seat of power from systems we thought we had to 'optimize', to futures we have the agency to design. From the megatrends reshaping our age to the planetary boundaries that quietly govern our licence to operate, it constructs a compelling and rigorous argument: that resilience is not a feature to add, but a foundation we must design from. For anyone leading at the edge of technology, sustainability and systems change, this book does something quietly radical - it transforms digital from a tool we simply deploy into an amplifier of refashioned will - and in doing so, opens a door not just to a more resilient future, but to one we can, and must, author ourselves."

• Chapter - 01: Why resilience matters now;Chapter - 02: Why digital technologies are central to resilience;Chapter - 03: Why does resilience remain elusive?;Chapter - 04: Convergence of digital tech;Chapter - 05: From readiness to responsiveness – building resilient digital organizations;Chapter - 06: Overcoming systemic fragilities – governance for a resilient digital future;Chapter - 07: Digital technologies and the environmental imperative;Chapter - 08: A new leadership mandate – beyond incremental transformation;Chapter - 09: Conclusion;Chapter - 10: Appendix 1;Chapter - 11: Appendix 2;Chapter - 12: Notes;