Tech it Green

Source: G9+ Institute

Digital technology is the technology that has most changed our personal and professional practices over the last 20 years. A source ofinnovation and a powerful lever for transforming our businesses, it invites us to rethink all of our activities: our social interactions, our way of working, our purchases, our leisure activities, our financial transactions, etc. At the same time, the ecological transition is the main challenge that humanity will have to face in the next few decades, and we are still collectively trying to find a way to respond to it. Digital applications could offer a salutary solution to this challenge, but they can also make it worse. For digital is far from immaterial, and its footprint on the planet is growing as fast as our data flows.  

Can tech save the planet or will it accelerate climate change? While the digital sector appears to be essential to the resilience of our societies, as the Covid-19 crisis has shown, it is also an increasing consumer of energy and abiotic resources, so much so that the players in the sector can no longer ignore its environmental impact. This is why this book, supported by the testimonies of experts and entrepreneurs, proposes the launch of a Voluntary Commitment Agreement for the Digital Sector, bringing together all the players in the sector in a virtuous dynamic, to make France the leading country for responsible digital technology.  

TheG9+ Institute (G9Plus.org) is a plural think-tank of reference on digital issues. It federates more than twenty communities of higher education alumni and 50,000 professionals active in the digital sector.

Isabelle Albert is the director of Girls In Tech Réunion and vice-president of Digital Réunion. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, HEC and La Sorbonne, she specialises in digital innovation and the sustainable economy, and is a GreenTech and Tech4good (TEDx) speaker.

Publication date April 2021

Publisher Self-publishing

ebookformat (ePub)

Type of DRM Adobe DRM