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Public Roundtable Event: "Digitalization and other Megatrends. Research Practices and Sustainable Development Goals."

organized by Janina Taigel (FUB)

Optional Live Session on November 02-09, 2022, from 4-6 pm CET

The Roundtable Event on Digitalization and Sustainability was another highlight open for the public including a online panel discussion with the leading question: „How to govern the process of digitalization to make it work within the framework of sustainability?“

Scholars from Germany, Dr. Steffen Lange, Dr. Sybille Bauriedl, Dr. Grischa Beier, Dr. Berthold Kuhn and Dimitrios Margellos introduced their research activities related to green IT, greening IT and the intersection of megatrends and provided some insights in their recent publications:

      • Digitalization and Sustainability as Global Megatrend (Dr. Berthold Kuhn and his Co-author Dimitrios Margellos) (1)
      • Digital Reset. Redirecting Technologies for the Deep Sustainability Transformation (Dr. Steffen Lange) (2)
      • Shaping the Digitization of Industry in a Social-ecological Way (Dr. Grischa Beier) (3)
      • Sustainability and Platformization of Urban Life (Dr. Sybille Bauriedl) (4)

The workshop was organized in the framework of the University Alliance for Sustainability and open for interested universities.

More information on the publications:

(1) Kuhn, B. (2022). Global Perspectives on Megatrends. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21867.82723

(2) Steffen Lange, Santarius, T., Dencik, L., Diez T., Ferreboeuf, H., Hankey, S., Hilbeck, A., Hilty, L., Höjer, M., Kleine, D., Pohl, J., Reisch, L., Ryghaug, M., Schwanen, T. & Staab, P. (2022). Digital Reset. Redirecting Technologies for the Deep Sustainability Transformation. Technische Universität Berlin. https://doi.org/10.14279/DEPOSITONCE-16187.2

(3) Beier, G., Ullrich, A., Niehoff, S., Reißig, M., & Habich, M. (2020). Industry 4.0: How it is defined from a sociotechnical perspective and how much sustainability it includes – A literature review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 259, 120856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120856

(4) Strüver, A., & Bauriedl, S. (Hrsg.). (2022). Platformization of urban life: Towards a technocapitalist transformation of European cities. transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459645



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