Big Words: Digital Sustainability #5

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Digital Sustainability:

noun

1. The process of supporting and enhancing sustainable development via the use of digital tools and innovations.

2. The methodology of measuring, reducing, and mitigating the adverse outcomes of digitization, such as carbon emissions, energy consumption, and electronic waste.

3. An encompassment of the longevity, preservation, and accessibility of digital resources and information.

Source: The Dematerialised

Principal Considerations:

• How can digitization support sustainable development?

• How can we measure, reduce, and mitigate the negative consequences of digitization?

• Who has access to digital information?

Contributor: Beata Wilczek.