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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 […]

Sustainable Living Guide not much help for green computing RFP

June 5, 2007

In the search for a green RFP for computing I’ve been sent links to more guides to purchasing. Sustainable Business organisations have produced documents such as the Sustainable Living Guide This guide provides a simple classification for assessing products, features over 50 examples of sustainable products and services and provides an introductory list of products or […]

“they all seem good”: need for a green computer RFP template

June 3, 2007

Short story: Green IT is rapidly reaching saturation. We are now at the stage of computing practitioners having to chose between green options. This is good but some guidelines are desperately needed. Longer story: Forrester‘s recently published research on green IT has been reported as “Green meets deaf ears in IT” and Green issues overlooked […]