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Session 1: The path towards digital transformation
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S1.1 Toward a typology of "going digital"

Cheng Gong and Vincent Ribiere, Bangkok University, Thailand

With the development of digital technologies, the lines defining traditional industries are
blurring. However, there is still a lack of a standard or shared common understanding of digital
transformation in terms of its nature and content, change process, underlying mechanisms, and
desired outcomes as they are still under-specified. To build a common ground for choosing and
using appropriate approaches to manage the "going digital" journey, this paper attempts to
illustrate how digital transformation occurs with a proposed typology from a change management
perspective based on the cross-case analysis of 103 organizational case studies, and to clarify the
essential attributes of an (organizational) digital transformation and how they can be classified
into four different types: digitalization, digital mutation, digital metamorphosis, and digital
transformation.

S1.2 Analysis on the social and economic impacts of Internet platforms
Anqi Zheng, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China

In recent years, the global economy has been going through a critical period of economic growth
driver transformation, with further economic slowdown. At the same time, the outbreak of
COVID-19 has brought a severe blow to the world’s economy. Against these backdrops, the
digital economy has presented extraordinary resilience of development, bringing unprecedented
opportunities to various industries and injecting new momentum to social and economic
development. How large is the impact of the Internet platform economy on economic and social
development? Will it increase the overall employment or influence the employment structure?
Has the Internet platform truly stabilized the economy and society during the outbreak? Through
case studies on the survey data from WeChat during 2019-2020, this paper employs
questionnaire-based statistical approach and the expenditure approach applied in measuring
national economic accounting to unveil the impacts of Internet platforms on economic and social
development, hoping to provide reference to future studies in the field.

S1.3 5G Healthcare applications in Covid-19 prevention and control

Haiying Ren, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China;
Jianfeng Shen, National Health Commission of the PRC, China; Xiaoyong Tang, China Mobile
(Chengdu) Industrial Research Institute, China; Tianyi Feng, China Academy of Information
and Communications Technology (CAICT), China

This paper mainly focuses on the application of 5G mobile communication systems in COVID-
19 prevention and control. Firstly, for the different stages of epidemic prevention and control,
we give a detailed introduction for the application cases. Secondly, the application of the
epidemic is summarized, and the results obtained by each application are analyzed. Then, the
problems and challenge faced by 5G healthcare applications during the epidemic are analyzed.
In response to these problems and challenges, we put forward suggestions for the next step. The
summary, analysis and work suggestions made in this article, provide an experience for the world
to fight against the COVID-19 epidemic. In addition, the research in this paper helps to promote
the construction of 5G medical and health standards systems, and provides a reference for the
integrated development of 5G networks and medical health.

1 Papers marked with an “*” were nominated for the three best paper awards.

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