Expectations are high for digital technologies to address sustainability related challenges. While research into such applications and the twin transformation is growing rapidly, insights in the actual daily practices of digital sustainability within organizations is lacking. This is problematic as the contributions of digital tools to sustainability goals gain shape in organizational practices. To bridge this gap, we develop a theoretical perspective on digital sustainability practices based on practice theory, with an emphasis on the concept of sociomateriality. We argue that connecting meanings related to sustainability with digital technologies is essential to establish beneficial practices. Next, we contend that the meaning of sustainability is contextspecific, which calls for a local meaning making process. Based on our theoretical exploration we develop an empirical research agenda.
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Moving away from the strong body of critique of pervasive ‘bad data’ practices by both governments and private actors in the globalized digital economy, this book aims to paint an alternative, more optimistic but still pragmatic picture of the datafied future. The authors examine and propose ‘good data’ practices, values and principles from an interdisciplinary, international perspective. From ideas of data sovereignty and justice, to manifestos for change and calls for activism, this collection opens a multifaceted conversation on the kinds of futures we want to see, and presents concrete steps on how we can start realizing good data in practice.
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This book is a journey through coexisting, emerging or speculated about, types of digital value transfer infrastructures. Using digital value transfer infrastructures as a central case study, this thesis is concerned with unpacking the negotiation processes that shape the governance, design and political purposes of digital infrastructures that are closely linked to the public interest and state sovereignty. In particular, the papers that are assembled in this manuscript identify and inspect three main socio-technical developments occurring in the domain of value transfer technologies: a) the privatization and platformization of digital payment infrastructures; b) the spread of blockchain-based digital value transfer infrastructures; c) the construction of digital value transfer infrastructures as public utilities, from the part of public institutions or organizations. Concerned with the relationship between law, discourse and technological development, the thesis explores four transversal issues that strike differences and peculiarities of these three scenarios: i) privacy; ii) the synergy and mutual influence of legal change and technological development in the construction of digital infrastructures; iii) the role of socio-technical imaginaries in policy-making concerned with digital infrastructures; iv) the geography and scale of digital infrastructures. The analyses lead to the argument that, in the co-development of legal systems and digital infrastructures that are core to public life, conflicts are productive. Negotiations, ruptures and exceptions are constitutive of the unending process of mutual reinforcement, and mutual containment, in which a plurality of agencies – expressed through legal institutions, symbolic systems, as well as information and media structures – are entangled.
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"Lifestyle and Digital Sovereignty, a new-media arts approach to collective technological empowerment for holistic care" is een praktijkgericht artistiek onderzoekstraject dat een nieuwe mediakunstinterventie creëert in het domein van de gezondheidszorg. Dit project onderzoekt hoe artistieke interventies die technologische processen integreren kennis kunnen genereren die kan worden toegepast in een bredere context, namelijk het verhogen van gezonde levensstijlgewoonten bij de bevolking. Het onderzoekt hoe artistiek onderzoek de digitale geletterdheid kan vergroten en deelnemers in staat kan stellen hun levensstijlgewoonten te beheren met behulp van kunstmatige intelligentie, waardoor ze op een soevereine manier kunnen interageren met technologische sensoren en systemen. Het project omvat een mensgerichte benadering van AI, in overeenstemming met de ethische en morele vereisten ervan. Het zal veldonderzoek toepassen in de vorm van AT-LABS: een ruimte in kaart gebracht door middel van technologie en artistiek geïntervenieerd door middel van geluid, licht en choreografie, om een optimale bodem te creëren voor artistiek onderzoek naar gemeenschapsvorming, technologisch gemedieerde interactie, digitale geletterdheid en performatieve praktijk, die een interdisciplinaire aanpak mogelijk maakt. De AT-LAB's vinden iteratief plaats tijdens het vierjarige doctoraatstraject. De informatie die bij elke interventie wordt verzameld, zal leiden tot aanpassingen en verbeteringen in de volgende iteraties. De tweede onderzoekslijn zal de artistieke mogelijkheden van nieuwe mediakunst in deze context bekijken en onderzoeken. Het project wordt uitgevoerd binnen het Consortium Healthy Living as a Service (HLaS), een programma geleid door het Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG). Verder zal worden samengewerkt met V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, en ARC in het Noorden. Het wordt begeleid door Prof. Dr. Anke Coumans van de onderzoeksgroep Image in Context van de Hanze Hogeschool en Dr. Bianca Herlo, UDK Berlin, Design Research Group. Secundaire professionele begeleiders zijn Dr. Michel Dartel, V2_ Avans Hogeschool, en Prof. Dr. Claudine Lamoth, UMCG, en leider van het HLaS project.
We live in a time of radical changes in Europe. The climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, energy crisis, the pandemic, increasedprice levels and interest rates, digitalization, robotization, reduced birth rates, an aging population, migration, a decliningdemocracy index and increasing friction level between continents and powerful states makes us uncertain about tomorrow.Deglobalization, shorter production lines, changed export models, bloc formations and sovereignty might be results of someof the large challenges we see today. We see tendencies towards increasing poverty and a declining middle class. It isperhaps more important than ever in recent times to show optimism on behalf of young people and future generations.European cooperation and the link between the right skills for the right future seems to be more actual and important thanever. A report from McKinsey Global Institute (2017) about future work life, competence development and digitalization,shows that approximately 50 % of todays jobs can disappear in the nearest future caused digitalization, robotization and AI.MGI’s in-dept report have covered more than 20 countries and 30 industries (mckinsey.com). We have also a commonEuropean challenge reagarding too many youth outside the working life. The NEET index (Not in Employment, Education orTraining) was 14 % totally for the EU countries, 9.6 % for Germany, 6.3 % for Netherlands and also 6.3 % for Norway in2021 (ssb.no).This is a challenge we have to solve as we need to increase the work participation as welfare costs willincrease as a consequence of more immigration and several older people.
