Digitization and Human Development

The pervasive integration of digital technologies marks the contemporary era in nearly every aspect of human life. Digitization, initially conceived as a process of converting analog information into digital formats, has grown to encompass far more than a technological shift. It has become a catalyst for reconfiguring economic systems, transforming institutions, altering human interactions, and reshaping the very foundations of social life. Against this backdrop, the edited volume Digitization and Human Development: Perspectives on Human Well-Being and Societal Transformation brings together a diverse set of scholarly contributions that critically interrogate the implications of digitization for human development.
This book is not merely a collection of isolated perspectives; rather, it provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding digitization as a social, cultural, and economic force. The contributions span multiple domains—work, healthcare, finance, education, rural development, policy, design, and mathematics—demonstrating both the breadth and depth of digitization’s reach. Importantly, the volume foregrounds human well-being as the central axis around which the discussion of digitization revolves, reminding us that technology is a means and not an end in itself.