Digitalization, Economic Development and Social Equality

Maria Mirebelli is Full Professor of Political Sociology and Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Education and Society at the University of Calabria, Italy. She is also a Member of Academic Representatives on the Board of Administration and a Member of the Doctoral School Committee at the same institution. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California and Essex University, UK. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the University of Catania, Italy, in 2000, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Political Science at the University of Calabria in 2000.Natalia Brasil Dib is a PhD candidate in Economic and Socio-environmental Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil. She holds a Master's degree in Economic and Socioenvironmental Law from the same institution. She is Vice-president of the World Complexity Science Academy and a Researcher for the Brazilian Institute of Procedure and Tax Procedure. She is also a Member of the Human Development and Capability Association and Visiting Junior Scholar at Universita Suor Orsola Benincasa, Italy.Sinan Mihelcic is currently an Assistant Teacher of Urban Design, the Urbanism Studio, and the Architecture Studio at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a PhD candidate, working on the research of connections between small urban interventions and creating an environment to support circular economy transition. He is also working in practice, in his architecture and urbanism studio, Stajn Architects.