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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 […]

“…and sustainability” Digital Strategy just greenwashing?

April 16, 2008

Lazowska described Green computing as the next space race. Yesterday the NZ Government released the draft Digital Strategy 2.0. In it, sustainability is listed as a key outcome but other than a few scattered statements, the document seems to have ignored both the potential impact and the opportunity. If green computing is indeed the next […]

Designers engage every client in sustainability while computing checks the light switch (maybe)

April 7, 2008

Our Design School has just been accepted into the Designers Accord. They (we, even as I teach Interaction for design) are early educational adopters – one of only 5 educational institutions worldwide. The Designers Accord envisions a creative community where the principles of sustainable design are seamlessly integrated into all practice and production: Our mission […]