Istanbul Gelisim Vocational School: Vocational School Bulletin (Vol. 1, Issue 7, July 2021)    

Information Society, Information Technologies and Sustainable Society When we look at the history of humanity, the problems of societies have always changed. Although the problems experienced by societies are not the same, they may show similarity due to reasons such as time, culture and technology. Some of the problems experienced with the globalization of today’s world have started to become worldwide. One of these problems is sustainability. The resources of our world are limited and the increase in the world population has led to concerns about the consumption of these resources. For the first time, the concept of “sustainability” was included in the Brundtland Report of the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 as sustainable development. Sustainable development has been defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs”. The 3 key elements of sustainability are Economic, Social and Environmental sustainability. Without one of these elements, other elements will not be able to exist in the long term.