Digital Technologies and Sustainable Mountain Development

Digital technologies – smartphones, Internet, GIS/EO, drones, sensors, platforms, apps, blockchain, AI and more – play an ever-growing role in mountain development. In this session, we invite presentations that reflect on this role and that can help us gain a better sense of the particular relation of digital tech to sustainable mountain development.

We welcome presentations covering the role of digital across differing sectors and issues: agriculture, livelihoods, commerce, climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, governance, social development, migration, etc. What can we learn about different approaches to digital innovation and to implementation of digital systems in mountain communities? What social, economic, political and ecological impacts are digital technologies having in mountain regions? What are the particular mountain region features of key socio-technical issues: digital inclusion, misinformation, the twin transition, data sovereignty, digital resilience, etc?