On using simulation to understand Digital Do-It-Yourself (DiDIY 3.2)

WARNING: this page is part of a full, STATIC copy of the official website of the DiDIY Project, that ended in June 2017. Please read the note attached to the File Index to know more.


(this topic will also be the topic of one of the workshops of our final conference in Milan, June 22nd 2017!)

To help understanding the multifaceted concept of DiDIY it is important to introduce its operational definition (D3.1, par 2.4):
The advent of recent digital technologies (both hardware and software) is disrupting business models of traditional companies enabling a so-called “digital transformation”. A concept related to this changing environment is the digitization of processes: “taking manual or offline business processes and converting them to online, networked, computer-supported processes”. Digitization is playing a vital role also given that technologies are becoming democratized. Democratization is “the process by which access to technology rapidly continues to become more accessible to more people.