Through the lens of multi- and interdisciplinarity, this book highlights the potential of progress in cloud computing technologies, metaverse development, and digital transformation in charting a path to economic and social recovery, governance process and societal evolution  enabling to tackle the global polycrises  triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The book is an outcome of the 5th International Conference on Economics and Social Sciences, ICESS 2022, Bucharest, Romania.