The Importance of Digital Data and Data Management, the Social Environment and Presentation of Aspects in Using Data

Abstract

Digitalisation is one of the most important, comprehensive socio-economic changes of the past decades, which does not only mean the execution of existing processes with digital tools. It also shapes and will shape the internal relations of society and the economy in many aspects and creates new solutions (it is enough to think about the recent debates about artificial intelligence and the possible consequences related to its use as an example).
The digital tools which form the necessary basics of digitalisation, operate by storing, transmitting and processing digital data. These tools are common in the most diverse spheres of society, and almost every organisation uses them in everyday activities. Common and technology neutral characteristic of IT tools and solutions is, that their operation is based on digital data and information, and these tools form large-scale - even global - IT networks based on the use and transmission of digital data. The spread of digital technology as a basic necessary infrastructure for the operation of organisations made the proper implementation of digital data management particularly important task and an opportunity at the same time for all organisations.
The article – in order to develop data awareness, which is critical for data management also – reviews the concept of data, the most important data definitions, the external circumstances and influencing factors determining data management, and summarises some aspects that should be taken into account during data management activities.