An Integrated Index Towards Sustainable Digital Transformation

Emerging technologies are currently being explored globally. Governments in many countries have established related policies to update both service and manufacturing sectors. Conversely, corporate activities related to sustainable development have become active since the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Rio + 20, 2012. What is of concern within these points of view is whether society is moving toward a sustainable digital transformation. This study aims to create an integrated index towards measuring sustainable digital society. As a working hypothesis, this study assumes that humans, businesses and governments are increasingly having more iterative interactions, especially with business playing a key role among Asian countries. This study therefore, focuses on the business sector to develop the analytical framework. Text-mining analysis, which is used as a tool to detect common words that represent the index's concepts. The analysis shows that headline indices in sustainable digital index concepts are composed of organizational management, technology management, environmental economy, and digital transformation. Target indices are composed of natural resource management, digital marketing and adoption, digital ethics, sustainable consumption and production, digital transition, and organizational and human resource management.