--- usage: make -f ../../revealjs/Makefile title: Sustainable ICT subtitle: English draft author: Jonas Smedegaard date: 2023-02-21 mainfont: Alegreya Sans lang: en-US defaultTiming: 120 --- # Overview Sustainability Concrete efforts Sustainable ICT ## Jonas Smedegaard { timing=60 } Almost a student Macværk → IT-guide dr. Jones Debian developer System critic :::notes Study: tried to finish for 5 years Do it mac-like, not crappy ("Makværk" means crap work in danish) → hard to sell Indiana Jones → misunderstood in Asia Debian: linux system, voluntary, used everywhere will avoid irrelevant criticism here ::: # Sustainability ![](../is.jpg) :::notes The polar ice is melting → Reduce fossil fuel → public/shared transport ::: ## Sustainable? To endure a sustained pressure? *or* To pressure sustainably? :::notes [Endurance]: sand → mortar → concrete ::: ## Dimensioner ![](../venn.svg) :::notes Economy: self sufficient (*not* finance) ::: ## Historie * 1972: UN Environment Programme *+ Jonas* * 1987: Brundtland report * 1989: WWW *+ Jonas' first ICT purchase* * 1992: UN climate convention * 1997: Kyoto agreement * 2015: UN Sustainable Development Goals * 2018: Greta Thunberg strikes :::notes [Programme]: ethical principles [Brundtland]: ecology and growth are linked Convention: 3 dimensions [Kyoto]: agreement on carbon reduction Goals: [#12] covers sustainable ICT [Programme]: [Brundtland]: [Convention]: [Kyoto]: "Kyoto protocol: international agreement on greenhouse gas reduction" [#12]: "Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns" ::: # Efforts { timing=60 } Machines Information Traffic # Machines ![](../booth.jpg) :::notes Computers in all sizes How many computers in the picture? 1/2 machine: 4 panels total 1 [human computer]: [Kathleen Booth] [human computer]: "computer: one who computes" [Kathleen Booth]: "Kathleen Booth - inventor of computer language Assemply" ::: ## Machine waste Busy fan Excess stuff (GPS, wifi, camera, battery...) Too many or beyond control :::notes A laptop also charges battery when always plugged in Too many: Provider wifi + own + neighbors Control: Provider wifi + smartphone is locked → Dangerous when provider loose interest ::: ## Healthy machines Boring and practical standard models → Bulky boxes → Replaceable battery (Re)usable with Free software → avoid Apple and Nvidia :::notes Boxes: Excess space, not computing power Car battery does not fit smartphones Reuse: Provider never care about reuse ::: # Information { timing=60 } ![](../floppy.jpg) :::notes Info: Programs + documents The bible fits (maybe) one 3½" floppy ::: ## Programmer ![](../apollo.jpg) :::notes Margaret Hamilton, NASA team leader All code on board "the eagle" at moon landing [3.2 MB code] in the language Assembly → Assembly was developed by Kathleen Booth [3.2 MB code]: "Source code archive for landing module of Apollo programme" ::: ## Document waste Smileys in sms :smile: **Fat** letters in email Pictures consume more than 1000 words Discretion Surveillance :::notes Smiley or emoji: x2 Email with styling: x3 (or up to x20) Discretion/surveillance: blocks reuse → a newspaper in a bank box / with commentator ::: ## Healthy information Use local and exact programs Gem dokumenter i åbne og præcise formater :::notes Email program ← webmail Office programs ← Google docs [Plain text] ← [tekst w/ styling] ← Layout ← Movies [Markdown] ← [ODF] ← [PDF] ← [AV1] [Plain text]: "Guide to simple text email" [tekst m/ stil]: "Review of lightweight text editing programs" [Markdown]: "Portal about the markup language Markdown" [ODF]: "Wikipedia article about the office data format OpenDocument" [PDF]: "List of Free PDF readers" [AV1]: "Wikipedia article about the movie format AV1" ::: # Trafik ![](../net.jpg) :::notes [Opte Project]: <30% of [Internet in 2005] 16% in the World, 68% in the USA, 82% in Danmark Line length is response time [Colors]: blue=North Amerika, yellow=Latin Amerika, green=Europe+Africa+Middle East [Opte Project]: "Opte Project: Visualizations of Internet over time" [Internet in 2005]: "Online users over tid" [Colors]: "Opte visualization for 2003 (w/ color codes at bottom of page)" ::: ## Traffic waste Too much Too long distance Again and again ## Healthy traffic Use fysical cables Buy no-bullshit internet access ...and share with your neighbor Say **no** to cookies Save documents locally Share documents non-cloudy on in ewn "cloud" :::notes Non-cloudy: [git-annex], [Seafile] Own [cloud]: [Freedombox] Share internet: [OpenNDS], [LibreMesh] no-[bullshit] internet access: [Kviknet], [Unotel] [git-annex]: "git-annex: Tool to maintain data duplicates in sync using git" [Seafile]: "Seafile: Tool to maintain data duplicates in sync" [cloud]: "There is no cloud, there is only other people's computers." [Freedombox]: [OpenNDS]: "OpenNDS: Free network service for providing access to internet" [LibreMesh]: "LibreMesh: Free network system for setting up a wireless mesh netwærk" [bullshit]: "bullshit: speech intended to persuade without regard for truth" [Kviknet]: "Kviknet - internet provider" [Unotel]: "Unotel - cellphone provider" ::: ## Social media [arrgh...] :::notes What is healthiest - MacDonalds or Burger King? ::: ## Healthy social media Public statements: Mastodon Discussion forums: Matrix :::notes Mastodon: Try first as web service Matrix: Try first the client [Element] [Element]: "Element - web- og true client for the chat system Matrix" ::: # Do what thou wilt :::notes What you **will**, not what you **want** → Will you really say more than 1000 words? The amulet Auryn in [The Neverending Story] Creativity is essential (not pastime) → Bible - "Momo and the time thieves" is shorter [The Neverending Story]: "Michael Ende: The Neverending Story" ::: ## Sustainable? { timing=60 } ![](../is.jpg) :::notes Can the ice sustain better with more in the car? ::: ## Politics 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Copyright is normalised :::notes free competition "won" Copyright: USA joins the [Berne Convention] [Berne convention]: "Wikipedia article about the Berne Convention" ::: ## Politics 2023 Information trade Echo chambers Sustainable ecology? :::notes [trade]: 197 bln. pers. measures/day → each 4. minute your position+screen is tracked → 19.6 times/minute your data is resold [trade]: "Report on revealing the size og trading personal surveillance data" ::: ## Energy 2010 { timing=60 } Emails release 1% of pers. carbon → 4/5 is spam :::notes [email]: 1% carbon for average "green" citizen → 80% is spam - 33 mia. KWh/year → 1/60 of carbon for snail mail per message [email]: "News article about estimated carbon footprint for email" ::: ## Energy 2015 { timing=60 } Internet release 2% of global carbon :::notes [data centres]: 2% af al CO~2~ i 2015 → same as flight traffic [data centres]: "Analysis of ICT energy consumption" ::: ## Energi 2015 (take 2) **Data centres** release 2% of global carbon → Total ICT operations release 18% → doubles every 10. year :::notes data centres: 11% of [total ICT use] [total ICT use]: "Analysis of ICT consumption in 2015 and projected to 2025" ::: ## Where is the fan located? ![](../boat.jpg) :::notes Penge doesn't smell - Internet does not blow Greta Thunberg: 14 days [sailing trip] to the USA → [14 days] in super boat at [2.7 mio. EUR] → 20 days return with catamaran [sailing trip]: "Wikipedia article: Transatlantic Voyages of Greta Thunberg" [14 days]: "Thunberg's crossing of the Atlantic started on 14 August 2019 and she arrived on 28 August." [2.7 EUR]: "Malizia II [...] costs 2,700,000 Euros" ::: # Green thoughts { timing=60 } Ø-mark Reuse Fair trade ~~~Ecotex~~ :::notes Shop organic in malls as a sport ::: ## "Green ICT" Fairphone Green energy Reuse Turn off the cellphone at night Use old-fashioned smiley :-) :::notes [Murena]: sustainable smartphone → uset Fairphone → The Free system [/e/os] [Murena]: [/e/os]: "/e/os - freely licensed and surveillance free version of Android" ::: ## "ICT permaculture" Buy and use thoughtfully and respectfully Cirkular economy → cirkulær gift economy Subsidiarity (=nærhed) → simplest mulige kredsløb :::notes [cirkular] - Cradle-to-cradle → [gif economy] - Knowledge sharing as goal [nearness] - Solve issues at lowest level [cirkulær]: "Wikipedia article on cirkular economy" [gift economy]: "Universitety theses on gift economy for ICT" [nearness]: "Wikipedia article on subsidiary" ::: ## Sustainable ICT Collective machines, documents, and network → Keep it comprehensive → Respect anyone → Share with everyone Local economy (not shared economy) :::notes Comprehensive - encourage involvement Not communism nor socialism (but maybe social anarchism) ::: ## Bæredygtige Jonas { timing=60 } * Lightweight school support, incl. Kaospilots * Reuse of ICT trash in co-living and highschools * SMS robot and live video for experimental theater * Digital self defence in the European Parliament * Tailored systems for laptops and smartphones Everything public property, shared through Debian # Sustainable attitude Conscious ICT use as a functional sport Talk about ICT as a social sport Share your contributions proactively → publish your thoughts → License for Free use :::notes Points: ICT is tangible (not magical) → Simply machines, information, and traffic ::: # Tak og værs'go { timing=60 } This presentation: Released under the license CC BY-SA 4.0 (press "s" for notes and references) :::notes This presentation is built using [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) and presented using [reveal.js](https://revealjs.com/). Released incl. [source](https://source.jones.dk/jones/content/tree/it) by [Jonas Smedegaard](https://dr.jones.dk/), under the license [CC BY-SA 4.0]. 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