Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #justsustainabilitydesign, aggregated by home.social.
Today I #AmReading a fantastic paper that brings an environmental justice lens to algorithmic audits: "Algorithms as Social-Ecological-Technological Systems" by @mozilla Fellow Bogdana Rakova w/ @roeldobbe from this year's @FAccT #AIEthics #AI #JustSustainabilityDesign #FaccT2023
A summary is here: https://montrealethics.ai/algorithms-as-social-ecological-technological-systems-an-environmental-justice-lens-on-algorithmic-audits/ but really, go read the paper...
How we can enact meaningful change in tech to meet the urgent need for sustainability and justice? It will take a village and some critical friendships. I will talk about my book INSOLVENT on September 27, online, register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sigcas-wip-insolvent-how-to-reorient-computing-for-just-sustainability-tickets-633954273297 #JustSustainability #JustSustainabilityDesign #InsolventBook
The 'critical friends' of computing - fields like #feminist #STS, critical #SystemsThinking and others - critique because they care. (So do I!) That's uncomfortable. Uncomfortable is good! That's a start for a new, better, ecologized #computing. With the #CriticalFriends, INSOLVENT develops a vision for #JustSustainabilityDesign. For those in tech, it can help them orient their work; for those adjacent, it offers insights into how tech reasons and ways to build critical friendships with tech.
5/n The book develops a vision for #JustSustainabilityDesign. What that asks us to do is not less computing, even if some computing has to stop; and it is not a lesser computing. It is a richer, ecologized computing that works for all, not just for the privileged, and is driven not by excessive growth imperatives and extractivist logics but by the goals of helping all human & nonhuman nature to flourish. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/insolvent @andresmh