[APCPress] In time for Cancun: New report asks, How sustainable are ICTs really?

[Lisa Cyr]

EMBARGO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1

New report asks, How sustainable are ICTs really?

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1 (APC/Hivos) – A new report launched at the start of the UN Climate Change conference questions the assumption that information and communications technologies (ICTs) will automatically be a panacea for climate change.

The report spells out the impact the production and disposal of computers, mobile phones and other technology is having on the earth’s natural resources, and the massive global carbon footprint produced by their use.

The potential of ICTs to mitigate and adapt to climate change is also discussed, as are the roles of international institutions, the global research agenda on ICTs and climate change and “sustainability” as an evolving concept.

The report Global Information Society Watch 2010 covers 53 countries and six regions including Latin America and the Middle East, with the key issues of ICTs and environmental sustainability explored in ten expert thematic reports.

The report is produced by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the world's oldest online social justice network and the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos), the Dutch development agency.

List of 53 countries included is in the pdf attachment.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Members of the media may obtain print copies of this and previous reports on request and interviews can be arranged with authors by writing to Karen Higgs, APC communications manager at khiggs at apc.org.

To contact the GISW editor directly Alan Finlay editor at GISWatch.org
Skype id: Alan_Finlay

New website goes live www.giswatch.org on Wednesday December 1.

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Lisa Cyr
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