Usage and Knowledge of Technological Advances in a Multi-Cultural Country: The Level of Digitalisation in the UAE, Dubai

Somayeh  Kariman

doi:10.18096/TMP.2021.02.05

Authors

Somayeh Kariman University of Miskolc

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18096/TMP.2021.02.05

Keywords:

Digitalization, Digital Knowledge, Dubai

Abstract

The evolution of significant technological discoveries and the appearance of constantly expanding information
technology have pushed mankind from the industrial era into the information and digital era. Nowadays,
digitalization has become an extensive global phenomenon and the main driving force in this era of mankind. In
this research, I would like to investigate and analyse digital knowledge among society. The target for my
observation_ for which I used a digital survey_is the digitalisation of Dubai: a city with constant economic growth
and a steady influx of foreign workers.

Author Biography

Somayeh Kariman, University of Miskolc

PhD candidate

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