This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2023, which was held in Lahti, Finland, during November 27–29, 2023. The special theme of ICSOB 2023 was Digital Agility: Mastering Change in Software Business and Digital Services. The 27 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and …
The creative spirit does not only live from the intern-alization of concepts, rules, practices, and concep-tions. To trigger the creative process, it needs to fantasize, idealize, ramble and harmonize.In the creative process, time is differential, and space is unifying. It can be said that time is memory and utopia; space is the real, the concrete, and the representation. A…
Centuries of intense migrations have deeply impacted the development of the creo-lised Papiamentu/o-speaking cultures of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. These three islands, together with the three windward islands of St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, or Statia, and Saba, nine hundred kilometres to the northeast, plus the Netherlands in Europe, another seven thousand kilometres to the northeast, form t…
The latest report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that the world faces serious threats to its food supply. Reaching the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)'s goal to eradicate hunger and ensuring food security is only possible if we work together in partnership. Only through effective collaboration with governments, civil society, p…
The curiosity and spirit of exploration in understanding the origins of the Earth and life is the foundation of modern science, and this has never changed from ancient Greek civilization, the Renaissance, to the Industrial Revolution. Looking back at the development of geosciences in the twentieth century, we realized that it was the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics that first reveale…