Digital Sustainability
About
The Digital Collage is a gamified, card-based, collaborative workshop to raise awareness and train participants on the environmental issues of digital technologies.
The workshop also aims to outline solutions for more sustainability in digital technologies, and then to open discussions among participants on the topic.
Multiple topics can be covered during the session; impact of AI, Lifecycle assessment of technology, semi-conductors and electronic waste to match the topic/objectives of the day.
Methodology
Card-Game Based; with around 40 cards each detailing an aspect of the digital world's environmental and social footprint, going from the components and infrastructure to its global consequences.
Happens in 3 main phases; The Cards (Understanding the interconnectedness of digital systems), The Creative Phase (Connecting with the topic through art), The Debrief (Personal and collective action planning).
Data figures are inspired from organisations such as French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME), The Shift Project, and Green IT: scientific sources that inform public policy and corporate strategy on the digital transition.
Effectiveness
Participants will be equipped with the knowledge of how to better engage stakeholders in the relevant topics and be a leader of sustainable digital technological growth.
At the end of the workshop, participants should also be able to identify key decarbonisation areas and identify simple actions, opportunities, levers and/or stakeholders to engage to reduce the impact of technology.
Workshop Flow / Agenda
Introduction and Icebreaker (10min)
Construction of the Digital Collage guided by your facilitator (80min)
Express your creativity by decorating the collage, giving it a title, adding captions, references etc. (20min)
Review of key Green IT Concepts (20min)
Brainstorm on areas of collaboration with stakeholders to identify needs, opportunities & priorities (50min)
Wrap up & next steps (10min)
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Email to: Natasha@thetransmutationprinciple.com
