Virtualis : social, spatial and technological spaces in real and virtual domains : SpatialTrain III

Abstract

The Digital Transformation of the Real World entails the need to move from analogue to digital to virtual in an attempt to recreate that reality into a digital twin that is enhanced through multi-domain, multi-disciplinary integration systems. The What factor in the W6H model (What, Why, Who, Where, When, How and Why Not) takes central stage in this publication through the plethora of research studies that pivot around the location kernel. The past two decades have been dedicated by scholars and in turn society to employing a bottom-up approach to the concept of digitisation and digitalisation. Through data, information and in turn knowledge, action can now be taken up by policy-makers and decision-takers to ensure that all are ready for a new research and analytical operand: an operand that pivots on the Digital Transformation through strategic, operational and tactical activities as the fourth industrial revolution takes hold (Lachvajderova at al (2021); Vrana et al, (2022). [Excerpt from the Introduction by Prof. Saviour Formosa]