Digital Transformation to enhance youth awareness of climate issues

Document Type : Original Article

Abstract

It aimed to identify the extent to which the application of the digital transformation strategy - in the present and future-contributes to enhancing the awareness of youth on climate issues. What are the needs of young people from the digital transformation strategy in the field of climate issues by monitoring the models of currently available digital services, a comparative descriptive approach was followed using Likert scale using SPSS v. 21 to reveal the correlations. The sample size was 162 young (68.94% female, 31.6% male) of whom 80.2% live in urban and 11.7% in rural. 25.9% (18-22) years ,21% over 35 years, ,14.2% oare involved in voluntary work related to the climate and the environment. No differences between young people of both sexes in understanding the importance of applying digital transformation in the field of environmental awareness. A significant correlation between education and the feeling of climate pollution. 74.1% of the sample their knowledge comes from social media, 58% from reading, then 59% from free reading, and 43% from lectures and courses. 72.3% believed that the most important effects of global warming are the melting of mountain glaciers. 47% of the sample indicated that the dropout of girls from education leads to poor awareness of climate change.

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