Sustainable, technological, and innovative challenges post Covid-19 in health, economy, and education sectors

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has caused an evolution in the business use of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies in general. The general objective of the article is to assess how this process developed during the pandemic in the use and standardization of Big Data, digitalization, the use of data in the private sector and in the public administration and to assess whether it has been used to modernize and digitalize the post-pandemic society. The specific objectives of the article are: 1) the impact of new technologies on society during confinement; 2) to understand the use of Big Data for the creation of new products and businesses and 3) to assess which businesses and companies and from which economic sectors have emerged, which have been transformed and which have disappeared. •During the pandemic, the use of new technologies was critical for the continuation of activities for countries.•New technologies have been used in all economic and social sectors.•The new technologies have been beneficial because societies would have collapsed without them.