The Interaction between Internet, Sustainable Development, and Emergence of Society 5.0

• Main Authors: Vasja Roblek, Maja Meško, Mirjana Pejić Bach, Oshane Thorpe, Polona Šprajc
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
• Series: Data
• Subjects: Internet; Society 5.0; sustainable development; automated content analysis
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/5/3/80

(1) Background: The importance of this article is to analyze the technological developments in the field of the Internet and Internet technologies and to determine their significance for sustainable development, which will result in the emergence of Society 5.0. (2) The authors used automated content analysis for the analysis of 552 articles published in 306 scientific journals indexed by SCII and/or SCI - EXPANDED (Web of Science (WOS) platform). The goal of the research was to present the relationship between the Internet and sustainable development. (3) Results: The results of the analysis show that the top four most important themes in the selected journals were “development”, “information”, “data”, and “business and services”. (4) Conclusions: Our research approach emphasizes the importance of the culmination of scientific innovation with the conceptual, technological and contextual frameworks of the Internet and Internet technology usage and its impact on sustainable development and the emergence of the Society 5.0.