Digital sustainability: A high dimensional ML problem

The Brundtland report states sustainability as : “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (World Commission on Environment and Development 1987, p. 37). However, due to serious asymmetry of knowledge and technology around the world with digital (know how) based economy, a high dimensional definition is needed before we can begin to address this issue. We show that digital sustainability is a sparse high dimensional problem with independent features. We use framework by Friedman, J.H. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (1997) 1: 55., to minimize digital sustainability problem and suggest a ML framework.