digital economy
Internet-based marketplace activity
The digital economy encompasses economic activity conducted through or enabled by digital technologies—online commerce, digital services, data exchange, and internet-based business models.
The term captures both purely digital enterprises and the digital transformation of traditional industries: The digital economy has reshaped how we work, shop, and communicate.
Sometimes distinguished from the broader economy, though the boundary grows increasingly meaningless as digital infrastructure becomes universal.
- big dataEnormous datasets analyzed computationally
- side hustleSecondary income venture
- app storesSoftware distribution platforms
- cloud computingInternet-delivered digital infrastructure
- data privacy lawsStatutes governing personal information collection
data breach · e-commerce platforms · two-day shipping · internet protocols · two-day shipping · subscription model · fintech · artificial intelligence · cryptocurrency · microtransactions · remote work · content creator · automation · peer-to-peer networks · blockchain · smart contract · streaming services · subscription model
- digital societysocial networks, internet, internet culture, online communities, connectivity
- PortugalLisbon, Porto, Algarve, Oporto, Madeira
- US TechSilicon Valley, AI, software, hardware, semiconductors
- modern economicsGDP, GDP growth, recession, inflation, interest rates
- economic systemscapitalism, mercantilism, communism, feudalism, socialism
- economiesprivate sector, public sector, developing nation, emerging market, pre-industrial
digital economyagrarian economy
Agriculture-dominated financial structure
industrial economy · cottage industry · barter economy · subsistence economy · feudal economy