Internet Footprint Dilemmas

Internet Footprint Dilemmas
Date	2022/07/07
Time	7PM
Location	TechInc
Type	Meeting
Contact	User:Becha

Internet’s Footprint Dilemmas

Climate Garden meets Technologia Incognita: Internet’s Footprint Dilemmas

In cooperation between KasKantine and RIPE Community, hosted by a hackerspace in (h)ACTA, we will explore questions of:

• digital development’s impact on the planet: how much pollution, extraction and consumption is possible within planetary limits;
• carbon footprint, water/energy/minerals consumption, e-waste
• what benefits of digitalisation are justified - compared to older, more traditional ways of communication.
• possible (partial) solutions such as low-tech, reduce/reuse/recycle practices, policies within Internet Governance, and political actions.

Practical details

• When: 7.7. at 7PM
• Where: TechInc (address etc)
• What: Discussion & drinks (free tea, other drinks available to buy)
• Who: hackers, gardeners, activists, people passionate about climate change issues, techies, artists, parents, youth, refugees welcome
• Structure: short intro, topic expertise, Q&A, group discussion, calls to action = next steps

Background material

• Resources about “Technology and Climate”, “Nature and Technology” -> part of my article “Nature is Healing”, a series on RIPE Community Resilience: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-nature-is-healing/ (May 2021)

• Review of Green Tech events in RIPE Community’s adjacent field: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/green-tech-2021-compilation/

• Video of the debate: “Sustainable Future” where panelists were talking about "Twinning Green and Digital”: https://seedig.net/seedig7-sustainable-future/ (September 2021)

• Managing Your Digital Carbon Footprint (June 2022) https://archive.aweber.com/newsletter/awlist5696660

• One other tangent / source: https://www.appropedia.org/Digital_sustainability_guide_for_tech_practitioners

• "Towards a Fossil Free Internet", Chris Adams (May 2022) https://ripe84.ripe.net/archives/video/751/

• Video "Ethics in Technology", second part of my talk at SHA2017 (hackers camping conference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDfkQo0DOYo

• Bits & Bäume , by ccc in Berlin in October: https://pretalx.com/bitsundbaeume/talk/review/D97G37WXEQYKVWUNZ7CZFPUMKB8RF9UJ

Protocols

• Emile Aben https://github.com/emileaben/internet-energy-model/blob/main/draft.md

• Scion https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/internet-carbon-emissions-data-path-scion/

Academic

• December 2021: The cyber-consciousness of environmental assessment: how environmental assessments evaluate the impacts of smart, connected, and digital technology (John Mulrow1, Manasi Gali1 and Emily Grubert1) Published 22 December 2021 : https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac413b

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988319301288

• 2021, Lancet: The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921001884?via%3Dihub

Images

• personal / relational / structural
• squirrel eating a cable
• TechInc wheel :)
• KasKantine / Climate Garden logo?