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Digital Economy

Digital Economy focuses on the economic activity resulting from billions of everyday online connections among people, businesses, devices, data, and processes. It examines how digital technologies, such as the internet, mobile networks, and artificial intelligence, transform traditional business models and create new market structures.

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Course Title: Digital Economy

Course No: IT250

Nature of the Course: THEORY

Semester: 8

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

Course Objectives

Course Contents

1. Introduction

8 hrs

1.1. Digital economics: concepts, drivers, and ecosystem

1.2. K-economy: concepts and drivers

1.3. Differences between digital economy and k-economy

1.4. The fourth industrial revolution: drivers, opportunities, and challenges

1.5. Influence of digital economy: sustainability, privacy, regularity, and strategies

2. Fundamentals of Digital Economy

7 hrs

2.1. Multi-sided platforms: Network effects and positive feedback

2.2. Lock-in and switching costs

2.3. Formulation of monopolies in the digital economy

2.4. Digital adoption index and OECD digital adoption government index

3. Digital Markets, Strategy and Innovation

10 hrs

3.1. Competition, cooperation, and competition

3.2. The layered internet model

3.3. Digital innovation

3.4. Digital business models

3.5. Value creation models

3.6. Modeling of digital markets

4. Digital Transformation

8 hrs

4.1. Digital transformation: concepts and drivers

4.2. Accelerating SDGs through digital transformation

4.3. Role of technological revolution in the world economy

4.4. Globalization and economic growth in the digital age

4.5. Digital currencies: concepts and types

5. Economics of Information

8 hrs

5.1. Asymmetric information: concepts and determinants

5.2. Asymmetric information and digitalization

5.3. Online search engines

5.4. Artificial intelligence

5.5. Strategy and the new economics of information

5.6. Effects of digitalization on consumer choice and labor markets

5.7. Intellectual property and digitalization

6. Digitalization in Nepalese Perspective

7 hrs

6.1. E-governance: concepts, process, and structure

6.2. E-governance practices in Nepal

6.3. Digital financial inclusion in Nepalese financial markets

6.4. Opportunities and challenges for digital transformation in the public sector

6.5. Digital transformation and the economic performance in trade, tourism, agriculture, and SMEs

Text Books

1.Øverby, H., & Audestad, J. A. (2021). Introduction to digital economics: Foundations, business models and case studies (2nd ed.). Springer.
2.Maheshwari, A. (2019). Digital transformation: Building intelligent enterprises. Wiley.
3.Adhikari, G. M. (n.d.). Digital economics (Recent ed.). Kathmandu.

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This course deals with the introduction to digital economy, fundamentals of digital economy, digital markets, strategy and innovation, digital transformation, economics of information, and digitalization from a Nepalese perspective.

The course aims to enhance students' cognitive knowledge and practical skills in digital technologies in the field of economics and management.

This syllabus follows the official BIM curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university’s published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.https://www.fomecd.edu.np/syllabuses