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How Green is Your Smartphone?
Cambridge: Polity Press (2020), 160 pp.
"Contrary to widespread claims, consumer electronics and other digital technologies are made in ways that cause some of the worst environmental disasters of our time - conflict-minerals extraction, fatal and life-threatening occupational hazards, toxic pollution of ecosystems, rising energy consumpt
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Sustainable Digitalization: Guidelines for a Digitalization We Need for the Future We Want
Berlin: German NGO Forum on Environment and Development (2019), 8 pp.
"If digitalization truly is an element of great social change, it has to be sustainable, fair, and relevant to all people and working for the common good. Without proper discussions on benefits or risk, without democratic control and regulations, technologies have the potential to lead to more and n
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Was Bits und Bäume verbindet: Digitalisierung nachhaltig gestalten
München: oekom Verlag (2019), 144 pp.
"Knapp 2.000 Menschen zog die ‹Bits & Bäume› im November 2018 an die Technische Universität Berlin. Dieser Zuspruch verdeutlicht die Lücke, die wir mit unserer Veranstaltung gefüllt haben: Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit als zwei wesentliche aktuelle Herausforderungen unserer Gesellscha
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Lean ICT: Towards Digital Sobriety
Shift Project (2019), 89 pp.
"The current trend for digital overconsumption in the world is not sustainable with respect to the supply of energy and materials it requires. Digital transition as it is implemented at present results from a considerable expansion of the direct energy footprint of digital technologies, with an annu
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Unsere gemeinsame digitale Zukunft
Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) (2019), xxviii, 485 pp.
"So wie der Brundtland-Bericht mit dem Titel „Unsere gemeinsame Zukunft“ 1987 das Konzept der nachhaltigen Entwicklung entworfen hat, skizziert der WBGU in diesem Gutachten „Unsere gemeinsame digitale Zukunft“ das Konzept der digitalisierten Nachhaltigkeitsgesellschaft. Dieses Gutachten stel
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Guide to Greener Electronics
Washington, DC: Greenpeace (2017), 21 pp.
Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment
New York; London: Routledge (2016), xiii, 296 pp.
A Practical Guide to Sustainable IT
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2012), 167 pp.
"This practical guide to sustainable IT offers a detailed, hands-on introduction to thinking about sustainable computing holistically; starting with the choices you make when buying technology, the software and peripherals you use, through to how you store and work with information, manage your secu
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Unveiling the Links Between ICTs and Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Scoping Study
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 59 pp.
"The main structure of the document consists of four parts. The first provides the reader with the 'big picture' of ICTs and climate change, based on a review of existing literature and identification of the main phases that have characterized the debate to date (Figure 1). Based on the above, the a
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Global Information Society Watch 2010: Focus on ICTs and Environmental Sustainability
Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2010), 244 pp.
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Computer Recycling. Volume 1: Basics for Starting Up a Computer Recycling Business in Emerging Markets
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Paris: TIC Ethic (2008), 84 pp.
"The purpose of this guidebook is to help develop the skills required to handle the growing flux of waste generated by the new and used computer markets for the benefit of the environment and public health. Problems generated by this computer waste are affecting the world in general and developing c
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Assessing Opportunities for ICT to Contribute to Sustainable Development
Brussels: European Comission, Information Society and Media (2005), 35 pp.
The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa
Seattle: Basel Action Network (BAN) (2005), 42 pp. + annexes
How to Set Up and Operate a Successful Computer Refurbishment Centre in Africa: A Planning and Management Guide. Prepared as Part of the Catalysing Access to ICT in Africa (CATIA) Programme, UK Department for International Development (DFID): Component 2a - Open Source Software and Low-Cost Computing
Cape Town: bridges.org (2004), 39 pp. + annexes
Paying the Price: A Total Cost of Ownership Comparison Between New and Refurbished PCs in the Small Business, NGO and School in Africa
Open Research (2004), 84 pp.
"Given the budget, good quality new PCs are likely to be the most stable, and in many instances will be the preferred technology choice. However, their high purchase price remains a key inhibitor to lowering their comparative total cost of ownership (TCO) in a small business, NGO or school. New PC p
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