Digital Sustainability
How Can We Build Software With the Planet in Mind?
Description
Software. The Web. The Cloud.
People tend to think of digital as being limitless or non-physical. But the Internet is the biggest machine ever built – and it has a huge impact on our environment. How can we as web developers help make IT more sustainable? What would enable us to do more?
Topics:
- How ICT is part of the climate problem
- How ICT can be part of climate solutions
- How optimizing efficiency can lead to more use — and what to do about it
- Practical tips for designing or building green software
- What you can do as part of an organization
- Where to learn and do more
Format
Talk: 45 minutes
Discussion: 15 minutes
About the speaker
Brian Louis Ramirez is a web performance engineer at Speed Kit.