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"Sustainability is crucial for the future of our societies. From a computing perspective, the challenge is to design IT artifacts that contribute to improving people's work and everyday life in a sustainable way, thereby also contributing to social and ecological sustainability. The book d...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Sustainability is crucial for the future of our societies. From a computing perspective, the challenge is to design IT artifacts that contribute to improving people's work and everyday life in a sustainable way, thereby also contributing to social and ecological sustainability. The book documents the experiences made by several leading research groups in Europe, North America and South Africa, describing their efforts to achieve sustainable design results, the difficulties that barred the way but also the strategies they adopted to achieve the goal of sustainability. The analysis of this rich empirical material helps thinking about how to more systematically address and possibly overcome the impediments to achieving a design result that is sustainable in practice. It points at the importance of considering the socio-technical nature of innovation, to focus on the relationship between ownership, appropriation and learning early on in a project, and to strive not only for technological flexibility but take care of issues of maintenance repair in designing computer-support. The book discusses the changes that would be necessary to make the main stakeholders in IT design more open to creating environments for sustainable innovation. The examples discussed in this book and their analysis can inspire researchers, institutions, managers, ICT professionals and educators to promote the goal of sustainable design results and increase the overall awareness of its strategic relevance"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 383 pages : illustration (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references (pages [353]-377) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198862505 0198862504 |
| Index Number: | T58 |
| CLC: | G202 |
| Call Number: | G202/S598 |
| Contents: | Section I. Framing the book -- Introduction -- Sustainability: The conceptual space -- Section II. Case studies -- Bringing industry 4.0 to small and medium enterprises -- Emergency and crisis management -- Healthcare at the hospital and at home -- Integration of healthcare services and technologies -- Learning across cultures and communities -- Projects in developing countries -- Research projects in IT service companies -- Beyond individual projects: University spin-offs -- Section III. Analysis and discussion -- Looking across and connecting -- The complex way to sustainability -- Section IV. Epilogue -- Personal experience and reflections. |