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Digital transformation poses a number of new competitive opportunities and threats at micro and macro levels. The rapid and intensive transformation affects the everyday life of countries, cities and companies alike. These changes affect all the pillars of sustainability, including the economy, society and the environment. The research presents these effects, focusing on the evolution of the CIMI index for European capitals. According to the research hypothesis, owing to the digital transformation, smart and sustainable urban development may be synchonised and synergistically boost each other; in order to prove this, the authors modified the index and created the CIMIS index, which highlights the connection between sustainability and digital transformation in the capitals. Accordingly, the selected cities have been ranked and then categorized. This illustrates the strengths and opportunities of the selected cities according to delimited indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evolution of the digital transformation presents new challenges and many new opportunities, and provides unique solutions to individual issues, both for sectors and regions. The challenges posed by the digital world have a significant impact on social and economic processes, as well as our environment. This paper aims to provide an indicator-based understanding of the main characteristics of digitalization promoting sustainable development in the member countries of the Visegrad Cooperation. The main goal of this research is to study the relationship between digitalization transformation and sustainability together. One of the basic indicators of the article is the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI). We examined interconnections between the dimensions of the DESI index and the indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets together in the V4, presented the change, evaluated the selected countries based on these aspects, and set up their ranking. Competitiveness performance data shed light on the situation in Hungary within the V4 countries, pointing out the strengths and shortcomings. The results show the extent of digital performance in each country and the relationship between their digital performance and sustainability indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]