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Extending the lifetime of mobile devices to reduce their environmental impact: a glimpse on the project LIFESAVING

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Mobile Internet-enabled devices (MIEDs) such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets have become a crucial part of our lives. However, the environmental…
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What can we learn from Covid19?

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The public sector faces formidable challenges. These have become more prominent as a result of the Corona pandemic. Now we must also use the…
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Sufficiency: the missing ingredient for sustainable digitalisation

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Digitalisation is often depicted as a silver bullet to address sustainability issues, due to its potential to decarbonise the global economy…
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Sustainability in the digital space

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Sustainability, already a multi-layered topic in itself, becomes a multi-dimensional consideration of IT against the backdrop of the digital…
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Sufficiency – An approach towards a sustainable (digital) future

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In environmental research, sufficiency is seen as a major pillar of sustainability. However, up to this day, sufficiency has been widely absent…
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Raise awareness of the environmental consequences of the use of connected screens

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New media uses have a big impact on the consumption of energy resources. Two-thirds of the world's electricity is generated by burning fossil…
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Using instead of owning – how sharing pays off for the environment

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In Western consumer society, the importance of sharing has steadily declined since the second half of the 20th century. With the start of mass…
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Switching Digital in Teaching: A Short Experience Report from a 1-Day Online Teaching Event

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Switching teaching to digital can be quite easy and still provide an excellent learning opportunity for the students: To let our students in…
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Digitization and the Environment: Opportunities, Risks and the Need for Action

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Thanks to the radically changed living and working conditions in times of COVID-19 (Corona virus disease 2019), many people have become acutely…
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