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Slowly getting beyond green IT as new sex

July 23, 2008

It is with mixed emotion that I read Stephen Bell’s (Computerworld) report of a panel at Radar08 last week. Followers of this blog will recognise my theme: Computing and IT underpins every sector of society as a pervasive and influential discipline with global impact. As a result, computing influences the environment and society either positively […]

Beyond the lean to the heart of computing

May 2, 2008

I’m on the committee for an exciting new conference that takes computing “beyond sustainability” . Hearttech08 aims to go deeper than our current attempts at green IT which as Raskino points out usually are code for “lean IT”. Instead we hope to explore the heart of technology and technology education. Logan Muller is chair (remember […]

Compulsory reading: Connected ICT and Sustainable Development

April 22, 2008

The Forum for the Future’s Connected: ICT and sustainable development should be compulsory reading for anyone making, using or applying computing (hey, that’s all of us!). Here’s why: a) It is about computing and sustainability. If we apply ICT well, the rewards could be enormous. It could help to enhance creativity and innovation to solve […]

Picking flowers: visualising sustainable practitioners

April 20, 2008

We need tools to facilitate computing’s progression from not thinking about sustainability or single issue greenness to a wider adoption of holistic sustainability as part of normal business practice. I’m not thinking here of carbon calculators or energy dashboards – instead we need simple concepts to help people along that journey. Key to this is […]

Finally, someone talking sense about open source

April 18, 2008

Leigh has been asking me for ages to write about open source and sustainability. There are a zillion pages about open source and sustainability but almost without exception they are solely about the long term viability of open source (either as a business model or maintainability of code). I would really really like to see […]