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Sustainability an “inane fad”? Let’s ride the wave!

July 15, 2007

Bob Jones describes green building as an “inanity” (stuff.co.nz). “I’m picking this to last about four years with the private sector and a decade with the government,” Jones’ argument goes like this: Government’s new aim to reduce the carbon footprint of its departments, installing power and water-saving devices along with other environmentally sound initiatives…But power […]

New policy makes sustainability a priority for computing education

July 15, 2007

In what we think is a world first, Computing Education for Sustainability is now a priority for NZ computing. The NACCQ represents most of New Zealand’s computing educators (all Institutes of Technology, all Polytechnics, with representation by some Universities), its conference is supported by the ACM’s SIGCSE. We are very happy to report that the […]

Sustainability and computing’s heart of prostitution

July 11, 2007

The reason for educating about Sustainability in Computing has never been stronger nor more urgent. Dr Logan Muller has extensive experience in computing for sustainability. He developed NZ’s first commercial backbone, primarily as a means for supporting regional development. Over the last few years he has been active internationally (see Peruvian Poverty Elimination Project, he […]

An Agenda for Computing Education for Sustainability

July 5, 2007

Pulling things together: here is a draft agenda for developing effective Computing Education for Sustainability (CEfS). 1. Work with the wider computing community to envisage and articulate a role for computing and computing professionals in a sustainable future. 2. Work with the wider computing community to articulate a discipline response to sustainability. This may take […]

Environment hardly features in dying discipline

July 3, 2007

In discussions on the British Computer Society, McBride questions whether computer science is a dying discipline (a subsequent outcry refutes this, see Mander, but McBride’s points are still valid). McBride sees relevance of Computer Science courses as the major problem, in essence he says the training is CS but the jobs are IT: “the gap […]