How to support digital sustainability assessment? An attempt to knowledge systematization

Digital sustainability has great potential for use in many areas. It refers to technological ecosystems, including various mobile payment platforms, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer loans, large financial-related datasets, artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and digital tokens internet of things. This creates relatively new opportunities for sustainable development. As a consequence, the digital sustainability gains the more attention of the research community. Therefore, a knowledge base containing selected documents in the field of digital sustainability is the main aim of this article. An analysis of available resources is supported by theoretical foundations including both comparative analysis and bibliometric analysis of selected approaches. Based on the retrieved 22 documents and their in-depth analysis by manual screening and by using bibliometric analysis, the set of criteria encompassed 12 main criteria and 276 sub-criteria covering various aspects of digital sustainability and providing relevant knowledge about analyzed documents and their content. To test the functionality of the proposed knowledge base, a number of sample competency queries were provided. Hopefully, this approach will be a starting point to complete missing knowledge to complete the puzzle of digital sustainability.