#digitalsustainability — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalsustainability, aggregated by home.social.
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We're heading back to DINAcon on November 18 in Bern - and this year we're sponsoring the apéro.
DINAcon is Switzerland's conference for digital sustainability, bringing together 300+ people from IT, public administration, politics and civil society around one question: how do we make digital infrastructure serve people for the long run.
Come find us at the bar after the talks. Grab a drink, say hi, and let's talk digital sovereignty: https://www.vshn.ch/en/blog/back-again-vshn-at-dinacon-2026/
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We're heading back to DINAcon on November 18 in Bern - and this year we're sponsoring the apéro.
DINAcon is Switzerland's conference for digital sustainability, bringing together 300+ people from IT, public administration, politics and civil society around one question: how do we make digital infrastructure serve people for the long run.
Come find us at the bar after the talks. Grab a drink, say hi, and let's talk digital sovereignty: https://www.vshn.ch/en/blog/back-again-vshn-at-dinacon-2026/
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We're heading back to DINAcon on November 18 in Bern - and this year we're sponsoring the apéro.
DINAcon is Switzerland's conference for digital sustainability, bringing together 300+ people from IT, public administration, politics and civil society around one question: how do we make digital infrastructure serve people for the long run.
Come find us at the bar after the talks. Grab a drink, say hi, and let's talk digital sovereignty: https://www.vshn.ch/en/blog/back-again-vshn-at-dinacon-2026/
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We're heading back to DINAcon on November 18 in Bern - and this year we're sponsoring the apéro.
DINAcon is Switzerland's conference for digital sustainability, bringing together 300+ people from IT, public administration, politics and civil society around one question: how do we make digital infrastructure serve people for the long run.
Come find us at the bar after the talks. Grab a drink, say hi, and let's talk digital sovereignty: https://www.vshn.ch/en/blog/back-again-vshn-at-dinacon-2026/
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We're heading back to DINAcon on November 18 in Bern - and this year we're sponsoring the apéro.
DINAcon is Switzerland's conference for digital sustainability, bringing together 300+ people from IT, public administration, politics and civil society around one question: how do we make digital infrastructure serve people for the long run.
Come find us at the bar after the talks. Grab a drink, say hi, and let's talk digital sovereignty: https://www.vshn.ch/en/blog/back-again-vshn-at-dinacon-2026/
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Revenue Without Capture
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 8, 2026
Overview
Public media has long treated revenue as a threat to mission rather than a condition of survival. This caution is understandable. Commercial pressures have distorted media institutions repeatedly, often at the expense of public trust. But the absence of a revenue strategy does not eliminate risk. It concentrates it.
The challenge is not whether public media should generate revenue. It is whether it can do so without surrendering control, credibility, or purpose.
The false choice between purity and collapse
Debates about public media funding are often framed as moral binaries: public funding versus commercialization, integrity versus profit, mission versus money. This framing obscures a more practical reality. Institutions without resilient funding structures are easier to pressure, redirect, or dismantle than those with diversified support.
Revenue is not inherently corrupting. Capture occurs when revenue sources gain leverage over editorial or strategic decisions. Avoiding capture requires design, not abstinence.
Why dependence creates vulnerability
Public media systems that rely heavily on a single funding stream—especially one subject to annual political negotiation—operate under permanent uncertainty. That uncertainty shapes behavior long before any explicit threat is made. Decisions are deferred. Risks are avoided. Innovation becomes conditional.
Diversified revenue does not eliminate public accountability. It reduces fragility.
An institution supported by multiple aligned sources can withstand pressure that would overwhelm a single-source model.
Ethical revenue models already exist
Public media does not need to invent new funding mechanisms. Many are already in use at limited scale:
Subscription access that prioritizes archives and educational material.
Institutional licensing for schools, libraries, and universities.
Curriculum partnerships that integrate existing programming into formal education.
International access models that serve global audiences without advertising pressure.These approaches share a common feature: they monetize access, not influence.
Revenue flows from use, not from control over content.
Separating funding from influence
The central principle of revenue without capture is structural separation. Funding mechanisms must be designed so that no single contributor, sponsor, or partner can shape programming priorities or suppress material.
This requires clear governance rules, transparency, and limits on dependency. It also requires cultural clarity inside the institution: revenue exists to support the mission, not redefine it.
Public media already understands this principle in theory. The task is to apply it systematically in digital environments.
Scale without distortion
Digital delivery changes the economics of public media. Archives that were once costly to distribute become scalable. Educational content that served local audiences can serve global ones without proportional cost increases.
This creates the possibility of modest, distributed revenue at scale rather than large, concentrated funding sources. Many small contributors exert less influence than a few large ones.
Scale, when aligned with mission, can be protective.
Revenue as resilience, not growth
The goal of revenue diversification is not expansion for its own sake. It is stability. A resilient institution can plan, invest, and adapt without constantly recalculating political risk.
Revenue that reinforces access, education, and preservation strengthens legitimacy rather than undermining it. When audiences pay for what they use, support becomes tangible rather than abstract.
That support is harder to withdraw quietly.
Establishing the boundary
Public media’s credibility depends on maintaining a clear boundary between funding and editorial authority. That boundary must be explicit, enforced, and visible. Without it, revenue becomes a liability. With it, revenue becomes insulation.
The next essays in this series will examine how public media can operate under permanent political pressure and what institutional life looks like once survival is no longer the dominant concern.
For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com
This essay will be archived as part of the ongoing WPS News Monthly Brief Series available through Amazon.
Cliff Potts holds a degree in telecommunications management, a diploma in radio broadcasting, and a PhD in metaphysics. He is the sole author of this series.
References
Aufderheide, P. (1999). Communications policy and the public interest. Guilford Press.
Baker, C. E. (2002). Media, markets, and democracy. Cambridge University Press.
Napoli, P. M. (2011). Audience evolution: New technologies and the transformation of media audiences. Columbia University Press.
#digitalSustainability #institutionalResilience #mediaFunding #publicBroadcastingStrategy #publicMedia #revenueModels
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Removing #AI features, swapping #bigtech for alternatives and reducing your overall #dataconsumption can make a big difference when it comes to #digitalsustainability.
Keep an eye on this page for RESET articles on how you can make small adjustments to your tech use.
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Removing #AI features, swapping #bigtech for alternatives and reducing your overall #dataconsumption can make a big difference when it comes to #digitalsustainability.
Keep an eye on this page for RESET articles on how you can make small adjustments to your tech use.
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Removing #AI features, swapping #bigtech for alternatives and reducing your overall #dataconsumption can make a big difference when it comes to #digitalsustainability.
Keep an eye on this page for RESET articles on how you can make small adjustments to your tech use.
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Removing #AI features, swapping #bigtech for alternatives and reducing your overall #dataconsumption can make a big difference when it comes to #digitalsustainability.
Keep an eye on this page for RESET articles on how you can make small adjustments to your tech use.
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Removing #AI features, swapping #bigtech for alternatives and reducing your overall #dataconsumption can make a big difference when it comes to #digitalsustainability.
Keep an eye on this page for RESET articles on how you can make small adjustments to your tech use.
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should #crowdfunding play any role when it comes to pushing #digitalsustainability forward, specifically when it comes to the #publicsector digitalization needs?
if yes, should this be done in direct action towards providing infrastructure pieces that should be provided by the public sector but are not (hoping that the success leads to the public sector eventually taking over?), or should it rather be indirect by fostering the technology pieces we hope for the public sector to pick up?
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should #crowdfunding play any role when it comes to pushing #digitalsustainability forward, specifically when it comes to the #publicsector digitalization needs?
if yes, should this be done in direct action towards providing infrastructure pieces that should be provided by the public sector but are not (hoping that the success leads to the public sector eventually taking over?), or should it rather be indirect by fostering the technology pieces we hope for the public sector to pick up?
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should #crowdfunding play any role when it comes to pushing #digitalsustainability forward, specifically when it comes to the #publicsector digitalization needs?
if yes, should this be done in direct action towards providing infrastructure pieces that should be provided by the public sector but are not (hoping that the success leads to the public sector eventually taking over?), or should it rather be indirect by fostering the technology pieces we hope for the public sector to pick up?
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should #crowdfunding play any role when it comes to pushing #digitalsustainability forward, specifically when it comes to the #publicsector digitalization needs?
if yes, should this be done in direct action towards providing infrastructure pieces that should be provided by the public sector but are not (hoping that the success leads to the public sector eventually taking over?), or should it rather be indirect by fostering the technology pieces we hope for the public sector to pick up?
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should #crowdfunding play any role when it comes to pushing #digitalsustainability forward, specifically when it comes to the #publicsector digitalization needs?
if yes, should this be done in direct action towards providing infrastructure pieces that should be provided by the public sector but are not (hoping that the success leads to the public sector eventually taking over?), or should it rather be indirect by fostering the technology pieces we hope for the public sector to pick up?
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Great Q&A session with Jack Suess by Mary Grush in Campus Technology!
We are honored to have our work on the Open Digital Commons and the return to open source strategy in higher education discussed.
Learn more and join us!
https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/sign-petition#opensource
#digitalsustainability #openScience #openresearch #OSS #highered #digitalsovereigntyhttps://campustechnology.com/articles/2026/03/09/open-source-advancing-our-digital-commons.aspx
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Great Q&A session with Jack Suess by Mary Grush in Campus Technology!
We are honored to have our work on the Open Digital Commons and the return to open source strategy in higher education discussed.
Learn more and join us!
https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/sign-petition#opensource
#digitalsustainability #openScience #openresearch #OSS #highered #digitalsovereigntyhttps://campustechnology.com/articles/2026/03/09/open-source-advancing-our-digital-commons.aspx
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Great Q&A session with Jack Suess by Mary Grush in Campus Technology!
We are honored to have our work on the Open Digital Commons and the return to open source strategy in higher education discussed.
Learn more and join us!
https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/sign-petition#opensource
#digitalsustainability #openScience #openresearch #OSS #highered #digitalsovereigntyhttps://campustechnology.com/articles/2026/03/09/open-source-advancing-our-digital-commons.aspx
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Great Q&A session with Jack Suess by Mary Grush in Campus Technology!
We are honored to have our work on the Open Digital Commons and the return to open source strategy in higher education discussed.
Learn more and join us!
https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/sign-petition#opensource
#digitalsustainability #openScience #openresearch #OSS #highered #digitalsovereigntyhttps://campustechnology.com/articles/2026/03/09/open-source-advancing-our-digital-commons.aspx
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Great Q&A session with Jack Suess by Mary Grush in Campus Technology!
We are honored to have our work on the Open Digital Commons and the return to open source strategy in higher education discussed.
Learn more and join us!
https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/sign-petition#opensource
#digitalsustainability #openScience #openresearch #OSS #highered #digitalsovereigntyhttps://campustechnology.com/articles/2026/03/09/open-source-advancing-our-digital-commons.aspx
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Are you interested in digital sustainability?
Check out Tzviya Siegman, Director of Sustainability at W3C and team contact for the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group in her talk about what digital sustainability is and provides an overview of the Web Sustainability Guidelines that are being developed.
#DigitalSustainability #WebSustainability
https://youtu.be/Xmm1jRAb6qQ?si=IxYTs5eSvwHQ6TUn -
Are you interested in digital sustainability?
Check out Tzviya Siegman, Director of Sustainability at W3C and team contact for the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group in her talk about what digital sustainability is and provides an overview of the Web Sustainability Guidelines that are being developed.
#DigitalSustainability #WebSustainability
https://youtu.be/Xmm1jRAb6qQ?si=IxYTs5eSvwHQ6TUn -
Are you interested in digital sustainability?
Check out Tzviya Siegman, Director of Sustainability at W3C and team contact for the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group in her talk about what digital sustainability is and provides an overview of the Web Sustainability Guidelines that are being developed.
#DigitalSustainability #WebSustainability
https://youtu.be/Xmm1jRAb6qQ?si=IxYTs5eSvwHQ6TUn -
Are you interested in digital sustainability?
Check out Tzviya Siegman, Director of Sustainability at W3C and team contact for the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group in her talk about what digital sustainability is and provides an overview of the Web Sustainability Guidelines that are being developed.
#DigitalSustainability #WebSustainability
https://youtu.be/Xmm1jRAb6qQ?si=IxYTs5eSvwHQ6TUn -
Are you interested in digital sustainability?
Check out Tzviya Siegman, Director of Sustainability at W3C and team contact for the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group in her talk about what digital sustainability is and provides an overview of the Web Sustainability Guidelines that are being developed.
#DigitalSustainability #WebSustainability
https://youtu.be/Xmm1jRAb6qQ?si=IxYTs5eSvwHQ6TUn -
📝 The hidden cost of digital
A personal reflection on the environmental impact of digital technology and AI. From paper to data centers: we have replaced a visible problem with an invisible one. Awareness without illusions.
🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/hidden-cost-digital/
#GreenIT #DigitalSustainability #EnvironmentalImpact #DigitalAwareness #DigitalFootprint
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📝 The hidden cost of digital
A personal reflection on the environmental impact of digital technology and AI. From paper to data centers: we have replaced a visible problem with an invisible one. Awareness without illusions.
🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/hidden-cost-digital/
#GreenIT #DigitalSustainability #EnvironmentalImpact #DigitalAwareness #DigitalFootprint
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📝 The hidden cost of digital
A personal reflection on the environmental impact of digital technology and AI. From paper to data centers: we have replaced a visible problem with an invisible one. Awareness without illusions.
🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/hidden-cost-digital/
#GreenIT #DigitalSustainability #EnvironmentalImpact #DigitalAwareness #DigitalFootprint
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📝 The hidden cost of digital
A personal reflection on the environmental impact of digital technology and AI. From paper to data centers: we have replaced a visible problem with an invisible one. Awareness without illusions.
🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/hidden-cost-digital/
#GreenIT #DigitalSustainability #EnvironmentalImpact #DigitalAwareness #DigitalFootprint
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📝 The hidden cost of digital
A personal reflection on the environmental impact of digital technology and AI. From paper to data centers: we have replaced a visible problem with an invisible one. Awareness without illusions.
🔗 https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/hidden-cost-digital/
#GreenIT #DigitalSustainability #EnvironmentalImpact #DigitalAwareness #DigitalFootprint
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Green Software Practitioner Study Day is a collaborative event with Green Software Brighton! Taking place on 13th Mar from 10 am–4 pm.
We'll learn how greener code can help the our teams and our planet. Attend and achieve your Green Software Practitioner certificate.
Join us at Plus X, Brighton for a full‑day of learning, networking and lunch from Café Domenica & The North Star.
Tickets will go on sale once we have 20 waiting list sign-ups (£26 pp). Link below.
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Green Software Practitioner Study Day is a collaborative event with Green Software Brighton! Taking place on 13th Mar from 10 am–4 pm.
We'll learn how greener code can help the our teams and our planet. Attend and achieve your Green Software Practitioner certificate.
Join us at Plus X, Brighton for a full‑day of learning, networking and lunch from Café Domenica & The North Star.
Tickets will go on sale once we have 20 waiting list sign-ups (£26 pp). Link below.
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Green Software Practitioner Study Day is a collaborative event with Green Software Brighton! Taking place on 13th Mar from 10 am–4 pm.
We'll learn how greener code can help the our teams and our planet. Attend and achieve your Green Software Practitioner certificate.
Join us at Plus X, Brighton for a full‑day of learning, networking and lunch from Café Domenica & The North Star.
Tickets will go on sale once we have 20 waiting list sign-ups (£26 pp). Link below.
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Green Software Practitioner Study Day is a collaborative event with Green Software Brighton! Taking place on 13th Mar from 10 am–4 pm.
We'll learn how greener code can help the our teams and our planet. Attend and achieve your Green Software Practitioner certificate.
Join us at Plus X, Brighton for a full‑day of learning, networking and lunch from Café Domenica & The North Star.
Tickets will go on sale once we have 20 waiting list sign-ups (£26 pp). Link below.
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Back by popular demand, Green Software Practitioner Study Day – Join Us!
Co-hosted with Green Software Brighton, this event is ideal for UXers, developers, cloud architects, SEOs, founders, and team leads.
Fri 30th January, 10am – 4pm 📅
WRAP, Brighton (not step-free) 📍
£43.75 (includes lunch & donation to Sussex Bay) 🎟️
Teams welcome!Tickets must be sold by 9th January. 🚨
#DigitalSustainability #Devs #Cloud #Accessibility #UX #Content #ProductManager #Founders #Sussex #Brighton
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Back by popular demand, Green Software Practitioner Study Day – Join Us!
Co-hosted with Green Software Brighton, this event is ideal for UXers, developers, cloud architects, SEOs, founders, and team leads.
Fri 30th January, 10am – 4pm 📅
WRAP, Brighton (not step-free) 📍
£43.75 (includes lunch & donation to Sussex Bay) 🎟️
Teams welcome!Tickets must be sold by 9th January. 🚨
#DigitalSustainability #Devs #Cloud #Accessibility #UX #Content #ProductManager #Founders #Sussex #Brighton
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Back by popular demand, Green Software Practitioner Study Day – Join Us!
Co-hosted with Green Software Brighton, this event is ideal for UXers, developers, cloud architects, SEOs, founders, and team leads.
Fri 30th January, 10am – 4pm 📅
WRAP, Brighton (not step-free) 📍
£43.75 (includes lunch & donation to Sussex Bay) 🎟️
Teams welcome!Tickets must be sold by 9th January. 🚨
#DigitalSustainability #Devs #Cloud #Accessibility #UX #Content #ProductManager #Founders #Sussex #Brighton
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Back by popular demand, Green Software Practitioner Study Day – Join Us!
Co-hosted with Green Software Brighton, this event is ideal for UXers, developers, cloud architects, SEOs, founders, and team leads.
Fri 30th January, 10am – 4pm 📅
WRAP, Brighton (not step-free) 📍
£43.75 (includes lunch & donation to Sussex Bay) 🎟️
Teams welcome!Tickets must be sold by 9th January. 🚨
#DigitalSustainability #Devs #Cloud #Accessibility #UX #Content #ProductManager #Founders #Sussex #Brighton
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🔐 Did CryptPad help you this year?
Millions of documents were written and shared on CryptPad this year, all encrypted on the user’s device.
If every active user gave 5 EUR in December, the project could be funded for all of 2026 without external grants.
If you want to support private, open-source collaboration, you can donate here:
👉 https://opencollective.com/cryptpadThank you to everyone who already supports us 💚.
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🔐 Did CryptPad help you this year?
Millions of documents were written and shared on CryptPad this year, all encrypted on the user’s device.
If every active user gave 5 EUR in December, the project could be funded for all of 2026 without external grants.
If you want to support private, open-source collaboration, you can donate here:
👉 https://opencollective.com/cryptpadThank you to everyone who already supports us 💚.
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🔐 Did CryptPad help you this year?
Millions of documents were written and shared on CryptPad this year, all encrypted on the user’s device.
If every active user gave 5 EUR in December, the project could be funded for all of 2026 without external grants.
If you want to support private, open-source collaboration, you can donate here:
👉 https://opencollective.com/cryptpadThank you to everyone who already supports us 💚.
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🔐 Did CryptPad help you this year?
Millions of documents were written and shared on CryptPad this year, all encrypted on the user’s device.
If every active user gave 5 EUR in December, the project could be funded for all of 2026 without external grants.
If you want to support private, open-source collaboration, you can donate here:
👉 https://opencollective.com/cryptpadThank you to everyone who already supports us 💚.
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🔐 Did CryptPad help you this year?
Millions of documents were written and shared on CryptPad this year, all encrypted on the user’s device.
If every active user gave 5 EUR in December, the project could be funded for all of 2026 without external grants.
If you want to support private, open-source collaboration, you can donate here:
👉 https://opencollective.com/cryptpadThank you to everyone who already supports us 💚.
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I'm going to be speaking at the Environmental Impact of Digital event: 25 November, 11am-3pm, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries. It's fully booked onsite but is now available to register online: https://lnkd.in/drTQ9q3k
Really looking forward to listening to colleagues working in the digital sustainability space and having some interesting conversations!
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I'm going to be speaking at the Environmental Impact of Digital event: 25 November, 11am-3pm, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries. It's fully booked onsite but is now available to register online: https://lnkd.in/drTQ9q3k
Really looking forward to listening to colleagues working in the digital sustainability space and having some interesting conversations!
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I'm going to be speaking at the Environmental Impact of Digital event: 25 November, 11am-3pm, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries. It's fully booked onsite but is now available to register online: https://lnkd.in/drTQ9q3k
Really looking forward to listening to colleagues working in the digital sustainability space and having some interesting conversations!
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I'm going to be speaking at the Environmental Impact of Digital event: 25 November, 11am-3pm, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries. It's fully booked onsite but is now available to register online: https://lnkd.in/drTQ9q3k
Really looking forward to listening to colleagues working in the digital sustainability space and having some interesting conversations!
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I'm going to be speaking at the Environmental Impact of Digital event: 25 November, 11am-3pm, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries. It's fully booked onsite but is now available to register online: https://lnkd.in/drTQ9q3k
Really looking forward to listening to colleagues working in the digital sustainability space and having some interesting conversations!
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Parlare di clima inquina più del previsto: i siti delle conferenze COP emettono fino a 10 volte più CO₂ della media. Uno studio di Edimburgo mostra la contraddizione digitale del secolo. Persino le pagine “green” lasciano una scia grigia.
https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2025/11/cop30-i-siti-web-sul-clima-inquinano-10-volte-piu-della-media/
#ambiente #digitalsustainability #climatechange #futuroprossimo
