TECHNICAL COMMITTEE 9 (TC9)
Working Group 9.9 - ICT and Sustainable Development
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What is WG 9.9?
The Working Group 9.9 (WG 9.9) on ICT and Sustainable Development is part of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 (TC9) on the Relationship between Computers and Society.
MOTIVATION
Sustainable development is the greatest challenge of our time: meeting the needs of the present without adversely affecting future generations.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have a great potential to support sustainable development. However, many of the ICT-related technical and political trends, such as the trend towards ‘pervasive computing’ or policies for ’the information society’, are not exploiting this potential. On the contrary, there is some risk that ICT will become counterproductive with regard to environmental and social sustainability. Systematic approaches to develop ICTs and their applications in view of the goal of sustainable development are therefore essential.