Center for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) links

• "Environmental Impacts of ICT", presentation at PrepCom1 in July 2002 by Dr.Bernard Aebischer (in MS PPT format)
• Informationstechnologie: Energiesparer oder Energiefresser?" (in German, meaning "Informationstechnology: Energy Saver or Energy Guzzler?"), presentation at EMPA, in Oct. 2002 by Dr.Bernard Aebischer (in MS PPT format)
• A new study on the electricity demand of Information and Communication Technologies in Germany in 2010 has been published. It was done jointly by FhG-ISI (Fraunhofer Institut fuer Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung) and CEPE (B. Aebischer with A. Huser from Encontrol GmbH) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour. The report (in German) and a summary (in English) can be downloaded here.
• Hofstetter, Patrick /Michael Madjar: Linking change in happiness, time-use, sustainable consumption and environmental impacts: An attempt to understand time-rebound effects. Final Report (in PDF format) Zürich, 2003
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
• Article in the ETH Bulletin about work on WSIS (in German)

Global Society Dialogue (GSD) links

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Systems Group links

• Dec. 3, 2002: Pain pour le prochain organized the editing of a common document for PrepCom 2 in Lausanne. Earlier that year the same group co-organized this campaign: "Nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication : une nouvelle forme de gouvernance s'impose"
• February 1, 2003: that group has cofounded the "Plate-forme suisse pour la Societé de l'information", which has a new Website.
• February 2003: An official Swiss newsletter features an article calling for a Swiss task force to demonstrate how tripartite cooperation could work in a Swiss Information Society: "Swiss NGOs: A platform and then what?" by Guillaume Chenevière (President of the World Radio-Television Council) in PDF format.
• This is the statement sent by that group to the Executive Secretariat for PrepCom2:
• French version, in MS Word format
• French version, in Adobe Acrobat format
• English version, in MS Word format
• English version, in Adobe Acrobat format
• Watch for updates on the official ITU site.
• Feb. 11, 2003: The interim reaction from Switzerland's Office of Communications to the statement from the "Plate-forme suisse":
• in French
• in German
• Feb. 12, 2003: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German):
• "Switzerland Reacts to Criticism"
• "Information as a Worldwide Public Service"
• March 12, 2003: Lorenz Hilty from EMPA (see also section below) participated in the Workshop « Société de l'information » de Science et Cité, which produced page 6 of this document, namely its Rapport du Groupe de travail « Relations sociale et société de l'information » (in French and German, in MS Word format)
• March 12, 2003: At the same meeting an announcement was made to the effect that "la Fondation prendra contact dans les prochains jours avec les personnes intéressés à s'associer à cette action, afin de définir, au cours du mois d'avril, pour chaque forum :
  • le thème précis (et les experts sur ce thème) ;
  • le lieu et la date ;
  • le cadre financier.
  " (in French, in MS Word format)
• April 10, 2003: Meeting of a new tripartite task force at the Swiss Office of Communication
• May 6, 2003: Petition for an Open-Source Software Village at the World Summit on Information Society in downloadable form as a MS file in RTF format. You can sign this petition at http://www.ynternet.org/info/27779.html
• July 2003: The environment-relevant passage of the latest version of the Action Plan from comunica-ch.net follows here:
  14. Ecologie numérique
  Toute activité humaine génère un impact sur l'environnement. La société de l'information n'échappe pas à la règle, c'est pourquoi:
  • - l'impact sur l'environnement doit être pris en compte lors de la conception des appareils, par exemple en limitant leurs besoins en ressources et leur consommation d'électricité.
  • - la durée de vie des appareils doit être allongée au maximum afin de limiter les impacts dus à leur production.
  • - des systèmes de collecte et de traitement performants des déchets électroniques doivent voir le jour dans tous les pays afin de limiter les impacts sur l'environnement et la santé humaine.
  • - le potentiel des technologies de l'information doit être mieux exploité et ces dernières utilisées systématiquement lorsque des bénéfices pour l'environnement peuvent en découler.
  • - des études sont nécessaires afin de mieux comprendre l'implication de l'utilisation de l'information et des technologies de l'information sur les comportements, la santé, et le style de vie des gens.
• May 6, 2003: Call for papers to the joint SETAC Europe, ISIE meeting and LCA Forum from 3-4 December, Lausanne, Switzerland, downloadable as a MS file in RTF format; see also our calendar of events.
• October 29, 2003: PPP cites work of Yves Loerincik et Olivier Jolliet, 2003, in its Educational Module 7 "Les TIC, ça pollue? La protection de l'environnement"
• Yves Loerincik is organizing a side event on "Sustainability in the information society" at WSIS on December 10, 2003
• L'annuaire suisse de politique de développement 2003 et une base de donnée documentaire et institutionnelle sur la coopération internationale dans le domaine des TIC, français, English, Deutsch, español.
Quick link to its "Environment" section in English

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, St.Gallen (EMPA), Sustainable Information Technologies Unit / Technology and Society Unit links

• UNESCO's portal to the World Summit on the Information Society
  
  • Here you can see how UNESCO cooperates with youth, as was agreed upon at the same conference where Lorenz Hilty was in Summer of 2002, organized by the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP). Lorenz Hilty is the "Swiss Delegate to IFIP Technical Committee TC 9".
  • IFIP also cooperates with the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), which has a page of its own on WSIS. ICSU is jointly organizing
    • an on-line discussion forum on Science and the Information Society with CODATA from Feb. 10th-28th, and
    • an International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science from 10-11 March 2003 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, at which WSIS is a topic.
• Youth for Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability - International Network (YOIS International), has expressed interest in our work group described above.
• Lorenz Hilty chairs the Technical Committee (TC) 4.6.1 'Computer Science in Environmental Protection' of the German Computer Society,
• Thomas Ruddy co-organized a workshop at the ETH Zurich in 2001 called "Getting beyond the Digital Divide after the Genoa G-8 Summit", from which the program and his chronology of the digital divide are still available.
• Thomas Ruddy, as co-chair of the Info. Soc. section of the World Civil Society Forum, has assembled these links on the WSIS.
• An explanation of "Dematerialization: the Potential of a Service Orientation and Information Technology" from friends of ours in Finland
• New Web portal on dematerialization and its leading thinkers (currently only in German)
• The Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability at Harvard
• Knowledge Partnership with Developing and Transition Countries in Electronic Waste (eWaste) Recycling

Sustainability in Electronic "Environments"

• The Heinrich-Boell Foundation in Berlin, Germany, is politically close to the Green Party (reminder: our employer is politically neutral), shares our concerns for the environment, has a new Website (http://www.worldsummit2003.de) reporting daily from the WSIS. The Boell Foundation recently held a workshop on digital intellectual property law and now offers a statement from it entitled in German Digitales Urheberrecht Zwischen 'Information Sharing' und 'Information Control' - Spielräume für das öffentliche Interesse an Wissen?
• Visionary on intellectual property rights (IPR) Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, spoke at PrepCom 2, draft program in Adobe Acrobat PDF format dated 24 January 2003.
• Lessig writes this blog.
• The Heinrich-Boell Foundation held a seminar on 11th January 2003 (agenda in German) to help organize German-language input to PrepCom2.
• Thomas Ruddy's presentation (in German) can be viewed here.
• At that meeting a Charter of Human Rights for Sustainable Knowledge Societies was presented, which can be downloaded here:
  • (in MS Word format)
  • (in Adobe Acrobat format)
  • Updated in July '03 here in MS RTF format.
• Prof. Dr. Rainer Kuhlen is a member of the group drafting a Charta of Human Rights in Sustainable Knowledge Societies (Charta der Bürgerrechte in nachhaltigen Wissensgesellschaften) and expresses optimism about the outcome of PrepCom 2 in this article: Interessenverflechtungen: auf dem Weg zum UN-Weltgipfel zur Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS) (in German, as a PDF file)
• During PrepCom 2, Friday, 21 February 2003, 13h45, CRIS member Sean O'Siochru spoke on "Visions of the Information Society: Information wants to be free"
• The thematic working group dealing with scientific information within the framework of civil society with links to OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS, PROJECTS, TECHNOLOGY, ADVOCACY, CONFERENCES and NEWS
• The thematic working group on patents, copyright and trademarks
• The Public Library of Science in the News

• UNESCO's discussion site on the Summit is now closed (access at right to archive).
• European Commission Webpage newsletter on international aspects of communications policy edited by Unit B5 of the Information Society Directorate-General
• "myNetWorks" is an online learning community in Sustainable Development, Resource Management and Ecological Engineering, going live in 2003, created by the Network University and the International Ecological Engineering Society in Switzerland and the Netherlands with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
• Art project on standby consumption (click on hyphens)

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Update: 10 February 2005