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Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
Deep Insights
"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose
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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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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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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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Guide to Greener Electronics
Washington, DC: Greenpeace (2017), 21 pp.
Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2012), xi, 235 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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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Computer Recycling. Volume 1: Basics for Starting Up a Computer Recycling Business in Emerging Markets
Key Guides
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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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
