As farmers depend on irrigation, pastures and water, digital societies depend on networking infra... more As farmers depend on irrigation, pastures and water, digital societies depend on networking infrastructures, such as the Internet and digital devices that produce and support connectivity and interaction. We argue, that what applies to critical natural resource systems also applies to digital resources. This includes not only designing sustainable systems and interfaces for the digital world, but systems that require social and environmental awareness, while taking responsibility, and recognizing the gaps, limits and impacts of global-scale digital artifacts.
Circular economies are particularly relevant in the context of digital devices or electric and el... more Circular economies are particularly relevant in the context of digital devices or electric and electronic equipment (EEE). Many digital devices built using scarce and potentially toxic materials have a too-short life, instead of being repaired or reused. In addition, informal recycling of electronics in the developed and developing world has emerged as a new global environmental concern. We describe the dimensions of the problem, the challenge to move to a circular economy, and the ecology for digital devices as well as how this depends on the traceability of devices and cooperation among all stake-holders locally and globally. Moreover we examine the need for support mechanisms to facilitate, standardise, and reduce the transaction cost of the processes and increase their added value. We present eReuse.org, a set of open-source tools, procedures, open data, and services organised as a common-pool resource (CPR) to reach the circular economy of electronics through promoting reuse and ensuring traceability until recycling. Further, eReuse.org envisions empowering and engaging people around the world to create local communities that bootstrap electronic reuse and to support the development of a globally recognised reuse quality and traceability standard.
EnviroInfo Conference 2015 ISBN (on-line): 978-94-62520-92-9 enviroinfo2015.org, Sep 11, 2015
Digital Devices or Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE) are scrapped at an alarming rate inste... more Digital Devices or Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE) are scrapped at an alarming rate instead of being salvaged, fixed, and reused. For the reuse sector to flourish, donors, receivers, and reuse centers need services and technologies to gain effectiveness, efficiency, and traceability to reach the goal of greatly extending the lifetime of devices and still ensuring their final recycling. The main challenges to overcome are access to sufficient good-quality used devices, quick preparation of those with greatest potential for reuse, ability to make direct donations, guarantee that reused devices are eventually recycled, communication of the social and environmental value of reuse, establishing a system to reward donors, and ensuring commitment of receivers of reused devices to recycling. We present a set of open-source tools based on a distributed platform ecosystem that supports direct donation of devices. Devices are prepared for reuse in the donor’s location, and receivers collect them. Malicious users are discouraged by a reputation scheme to reward cooperative receivers that reuse devices and track them until disposed to recycling agents. This reduces costs, and minimizes EEE losses as there is no need for a central logistic system or centralizing the engagement of donors on charity projects. The background and foreground Intellectual Property follows an open model (unrestricted), as the goal is to bootstrap the reuse process, generate local efficiencies, guarantee final recycling, and ensure traceability. Pilots already performed for more than four years and two thousand devices validate the model with 80% traceability of device components.
Software and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be key elements for social deve... more Software and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be key elements for social development, even more in developing countries. Projects on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) are an important tool to incorporate positive changes in these communities. However, as with other technologies, ICT and particularly software supporting social processes has a huge potential for change, and a huge potential for replication to many of these communities, but also a huge potential for disruption. From our experience in over 50 ICT4D projects, we have learned how important is to design and implement an open and participatory process based on the Service-Learning (SL) concept, where different forms of learning, service and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) become natural and interdependent parts of social development. The lessons learned help us in designing sustainable process for positive change supported by FOSS that can be appropriated by the indigenous communities, contributing to their social development and social justice.
Often, after meeting somebody, we discover certain things in common, like mutual acquaintances, p... more Often, after meeting somebody, we discover certain things in common, like mutual acquaintances, points in common, a common provider or even that he is a distant relative. It is then that we say “what a coincidence”, or “this is a small world”. One of the meanings of the word “serendipity” is “discovering somethin by chance”. Which data, techniques and tools help the visualization and analysis of the social relationships between our company and the society, and what is the information and knowledge generated through discovery of potentially interesting linked information?
La elaboración de un modelo en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) y Responsabilid... more La elaboración de un modelo en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) y Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) abarca principalmente dos líneas de investigación, la RSC de las TIC y las TIC para la RSC. Atendemos la primera explicando el proceso realizado para introducir criterios sociales y ambientales en los procesos de compra pública de equipos de sobremesa y pantallas. El resultado es un proceso más simple y complejo; la simplicidad reduce el tiempo administrativo y una mayor complejidad en los indicadores nos aproxima a un desempeño social y ambiental de las TIC más real. La segunda línea, complementa a la primera, la información en sostenibilidad de las TIC, datos e indicadores, son ahora la materia prima para facilitar la adaptación de la organización a un modelo más sostenible. El contexto de trabajo es una universidad con lo que introducimos nuestra metodología de integración de los grupos de interés, el aprendizaje-servicio, que creemos apta tanto por el contexto como por la relación entre RSC y aprendizaje, pues la RSC para nosotros tiene el propósito de ofrecer mecanismos para el (co)aprendizaje y la (co)adaptación de la organización y grupos de interés a un entorno de recursos limitados e incertidumbre. La empresa o la organización que sepa integrar con más naturalidad y de manera más óptima a múltiples y diversos colectivos en su cadena de valor (productos, servicios), obtendrá con facilidad la sensibilidad, la información y el conocimiento para adaptarse a las expectativas de los Grupos de Interés y operar en un entorno de complejidad.
KEY WORDS: Sostenibilidad, Tecnologías Información y Comunicación, Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, Indicadores de desempeño social y ambiental de las TIC, Business Intelligence, Gestión Adaptativa, Resiliencia, Aprendizaje-Servicio, Análisis Estructural.
Spanish report: 2010 - ICTs and Environmental Sustainability
The level of information and communications technology (ICT) penetration in Spanish society is ve... more The level of information and communications technology (ICT) penetration in Spanish society is very high, making up 4.61% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). According to official statistics, 57% of households have a computer and 39% have internet access, while 94% of companies are connected to the internet.There was 109.1% penetration of mobile telephony in the fourth quarter of 2009 – in other words, there are more mobile phone lines (51 million) than inhabitants (46 million). Spain has a good legislative framework, and a long but uneven practice of electronic waste (e‑waste) management. The issue of ICTs and climate change, however, is still in its infancy.
Is a priority for researchers to develop the sustainability science, through the integration of m... more Is a priority for researchers to develop the sustainability science, through the integration of multiple disciplines in several scales. Socio-ecological systems under the theory of resilience are aiming to the adaptive capacity to change through the premise of “learning by doing”. Evaluation is viewed as a process to steer and control programs and policies. Stakeholder participation is the key to create knowledge and learn together through an iterative process. Developing the capacity on the stakeholders to learn and take better decisions, it can conduct to a social learning process in a path to sustainable development. Integration and interrelation have they expression on the flow of information. The scientific discourse is on the need for better integration on sustainability science, but better tools are need to reflect this necessity on the practical field. We expose a graphical tool for network analyses to evaluate the interactions between huge amounts of information. If worth of information is on the relations, in graph database models many stakeholders and their activities are tracked in a network that is growing at the same time that the learning process. For the evaluation practice this is a potential because this tool allows recognizing patterns, social networks, analyse relations, detecting emergences or gaps in the knowledge creation. We illustrate the utility of this tool in the Millennium Development Goals, deeply jointed to sustainable development. The necessity to improve sanitation through capacity development in sustainability is a real problem that will need a huge effort that can be evaluated using graph database models.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) provide clear targets by 2015 and it turns out that sanita... more The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) provide clear targets by 2015 and it turns out that sanitation is by far the largest of all the MDG targets affecting about 40% of the global population. The objective of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is to show how Sustainable Sanitation projects should be planned with participation of stakeholders through capacity development activities. Developing the capacity of societies to collaboratively learn through change and uncertainty is fundamental for sustainability science. The aim of this contribution it is to analyze the role of graph database management (GDM) for improve capacity development and knowledge building in the Sustainable Sanitation framework. We provide a theoretical model with four features of network research: link analysis, social network, pattern recognition and keyword search that we illustrate with some examples. Network research allows us to observe how the information in Sustainable Sanitation is scattered properly through the structure and also to detect the emergencies, objections and other characteristics of the network.
És temps de fortuna per als espais que són de tots. Es promou l’aprenentatge per la gestió respon... more És temps de fortuna per als espais que són de tots. Es promou l’aprenentatge per la gestió responsable dels béns de domini públic, es construeix informació, coneixement i tecnologia lliure en sostenibilitat, i es premia cada vegada més l’eficiència en l’ús dels recursos. Aquestes noves oportunitats les posen en pràctica escoles, empreses i emprenedors social motivats en la generació d’un canvi social a millor, profund i durador.
Los derechos humanos han hecho un largo camino, avanzando poco a poco a lo largo de los años. Est... more Los derechos humanos han hecho un largo camino, avanzando poco a poco a lo largo de los años. Estos avances no han sido iguales en todos los países del mundo, y hay grandes diferencias entre estados. Así pues, aunque en un país se puedan respetar estos derechos, la globalización1 ha creado situaciones en las que la aplicación efectiva de los derechos humanos más allá de las propias fronteras escapa al control de los estados y sus sociedades civiles.
Professional skills such as “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility” and “th... more Professional skills such as “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility” and “the broad education necessary for understanding the impact of engineering solutions on a global, economic, environment and societal context” have proved difficult to teach. Moreover, it is difficult to develop these skills at the comprehension and application levels of the Bloom taxonomy. In the Barcelona School of Informatics we teach these skills at application level by using labs in which students repair old fashion or broken PCs, and install free software in order to use this equipment in solidarity projects. This kind of activity has several effects: first of all, it is a way to recycle and reuse some of the many PCs that our university discards and which otherwise would be thrown away. Secondly, students obtain real insight into the above-mentioned skills, which are quite difficult to teach. Students work on real problems that meet full realistic constraints, and learn the social and environmental impact of technology in a very good way: increasing the useful life of electronic equipment, reducing e-waste and influencing the quality of life of the most deprived sections of society.
Service-learning is a method of teaching, learning and reflecting that combines academic classroo... more Service-learning is a method of teaching, learning and reflecting that combines academic classroom curriculum with meaningful service throughout the community. As a teaching methodology, it falls under the philosophy of experiential education. More specifically, it integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, encourage lifelong civic engagement, and strengthen communities for the common good.
Technology for everybody (TXT) is an association of people from the computer science and telecommunication schools at UPC. The main goal is to share our knowledge in Information and Communication Technology to communities that may benefit. In the last few years we have seen how technology has changed our everyday life and became an inner part of a modern society. Lack of access to this knowledge enlarges the distance between communities. In this context, people in TXT aim to narrow the gap by providing technical knowledge to social institutions where this information could be useful.
En los nuevos planes de estudios hay que desarrollar competencias que resultan novedosas: práctic... more En los nuevos planes de estudios hay que desarrollar competencias que resultan novedosas: prácticamente no han sido trabajadas con anterioridad. Cómo enseñarlas y cómo evaluarlas es una preocupación para los diseñadores de los nuevos planes. Este artículo analiza la competencia “Sostenibilidad y Compromiso Social”, explicando técnicas para desarrollarla tanto a nivel de comprensión como al de aplicación, según la taxonomía de Bloom, y analiza las condiciones que deben darse en un centro para poder implementar estas técnicas en las asignaturas de su plan de estudios.
Presentar un modelo basado en el enfoque sistémico contemporáneo que nos ayude a comprender y exp... more Presentar un modelo basado en el enfoque sistémico contemporáneo que nos ayude a comprender y explicar qué elementos y relaciones son claves, dentro y fuera de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), para facilitar la promoción de acciones de compromiso ambiental y social en las áreas de docencia, investigación, gestión de recursos informáticos y relaciones con la comunidad.
En aquesta ponència s’exposa el paper que desenvolupen les tecnologies i enginyeries del Business... more En aquesta ponència s’exposa el paper que desenvolupen les tecnologies i enginyeries del Business Intelligence (BI) en el procés d’adaptació de l’empresa a un model de societat més sostenible. S’argumentarà com la integració de la RSC a la cadena de valor de l’empresa n’és un aspecte clau i es mostraran instruments, tècniques i mètodes que n’optimitzen el procés. També es presentaran exemples de com alguns índexs de sostenibilitat de nivell mundial estan demanant a les empreses un major grau de maduresa BI.
As farmers depend on irrigation, pastures and water, digital societies depend on networking infra... more As farmers depend on irrigation, pastures and water, digital societies depend on networking infrastructures, such as the Internet and digital devices that produce and support connectivity and interaction. We argue, that what applies to critical natural resource systems also applies to digital resources. This includes not only designing sustainable systems and interfaces for the digital world, but systems that require social and environmental awareness, while taking responsibility, and recognizing the gaps, limits and impacts of global-scale digital artifacts.
Circular economies are particularly relevant in the context of digital devices or electric and el... more Circular economies are particularly relevant in the context of digital devices or electric and electronic equipment (EEE). Many digital devices built using scarce and potentially toxic materials have a too-short life, instead of being repaired or reused. In addition, informal recycling of electronics in the developed and developing world has emerged as a new global environmental concern. We describe the dimensions of the problem, the challenge to move to a circular economy, and the ecology for digital devices as well as how this depends on the traceability of devices and cooperation among all stake-holders locally and globally. Moreover we examine the need for support mechanisms to facilitate, standardise, and reduce the transaction cost of the processes and increase their added value. We present eReuse.org, a set of open-source tools, procedures, open data, and services organised as a common-pool resource (CPR) to reach the circular economy of electronics through promoting reuse and ensuring traceability until recycling. Further, eReuse.org envisions empowering and engaging people around the world to create local communities that bootstrap electronic reuse and to support the development of a globally recognised reuse quality and traceability standard.
EnviroInfo Conference 2015 ISBN (on-line): 978-94-62520-92-9 enviroinfo2015.org, Sep 11, 2015
Digital Devices or Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE) are scrapped at an alarming rate inste... more Digital Devices or Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE) are scrapped at an alarming rate instead of being salvaged, fixed, and reused. For the reuse sector to flourish, donors, receivers, and reuse centers need services and technologies to gain effectiveness, efficiency, and traceability to reach the goal of greatly extending the lifetime of devices and still ensuring their final recycling. The main challenges to overcome are access to sufficient good-quality used devices, quick preparation of those with greatest potential for reuse, ability to make direct donations, guarantee that reused devices are eventually recycled, communication of the social and environmental value of reuse, establishing a system to reward donors, and ensuring commitment of receivers of reused devices to recycling. We present a set of open-source tools based on a distributed platform ecosystem that supports direct donation of devices. Devices are prepared for reuse in the donor’s location, and receivers collect them. Malicious users are discouraged by a reputation scheme to reward cooperative receivers that reuse devices and track them until disposed to recycling agents. This reduces costs, and minimizes EEE losses as there is no need for a central logistic system or centralizing the engagement of donors on charity projects. The background and foreground Intellectual Property follows an open model (unrestricted), as the goal is to bootstrap the reuse process, generate local efficiencies, guarantee final recycling, and ensure traceability. Pilots already performed for more than four years and two thousand devices validate the model with 80% traceability of device components.
Software and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be key elements for social deve... more Software and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be key elements for social development, even more in developing countries. Projects on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) are an important tool to incorporate positive changes in these communities. However, as with other technologies, ICT and particularly software supporting social processes has a huge potential for change, and a huge potential for replication to many of these communities, but also a huge potential for disruption. From our experience in over 50 ICT4D projects, we have learned how important is to design and implement an open and participatory process based on the Service-Learning (SL) concept, where different forms of learning, service and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) become natural and interdependent parts of social development. The lessons learned help us in designing sustainable process for positive change supported by FOSS that can be appropriated by the indigenous communities, contributing to their social development and social justice.
Often, after meeting somebody, we discover certain things in common, like mutual acquaintances, p... more Often, after meeting somebody, we discover certain things in common, like mutual acquaintances, points in common, a common provider or even that he is a distant relative. It is then that we say “what a coincidence”, or “this is a small world”. One of the meanings of the word “serendipity” is “discovering somethin by chance”. Which data, techniques and tools help the visualization and analysis of the social relationships between our company and the society, and what is the information and knowledge generated through discovery of potentially interesting linked information?
La elaboración de un modelo en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) y Responsabilid... more La elaboración de un modelo en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) y Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) abarca principalmente dos líneas de investigación, la RSC de las TIC y las TIC para la RSC. Atendemos la primera explicando el proceso realizado para introducir criterios sociales y ambientales en los procesos de compra pública de equipos de sobremesa y pantallas. El resultado es un proceso más simple y complejo; la simplicidad reduce el tiempo administrativo y una mayor complejidad en los indicadores nos aproxima a un desempeño social y ambiental de las TIC más real. La segunda línea, complementa a la primera, la información en sostenibilidad de las TIC, datos e indicadores, son ahora la materia prima para facilitar la adaptación de la organización a un modelo más sostenible. El contexto de trabajo es una universidad con lo que introducimos nuestra metodología de integración de los grupos de interés, el aprendizaje-servicio, que creemos apta tanto por el contexto como por la relación entre RSC y aprendizaje, pues la RSC para nosotros tiene el propósito de ofrecer mecanismos para el (co)aprendizaje y la (co)adaptación de la organización y grupos de interés a un entorno de recursos limitados e incertidumbre. La empresa o la organización que sepa integrar con más naturalidad y de manera más óptima a múltiples y diversos colectivos en su cadena de valor (productos, servicios), obtendrá con facilidad la sensibilidad, la información y el conocimiento para adaptarse a las expectativas de los Grupos de Interés y operar en un entorno de complejidad.
KEY WORDS: Sostenibilidad, Tecnologías Información y Comunicación, Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, Indicadores de desempeño social y ambiental de las TIC, Business Intelligence, Gestión Adaptativa, Resiliencia, Aprendizaje-Servicio, Análisis Estructural.
Spanish report: 2010 - ICTs and Environmental Sustainability
The level of information and communications technology (ICT) penetration in Spanish society is ve... more The level of information and communications technology (ICT) penetration in Spanish society is very high, making up 4.61% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). According to official statistics, 57% of households have a computer and 39% have internet access, while 94% of companies are connected to the internet.There was 109.1% penetration of mobile telephony in the fourth quarter of 2009 – in other words, there are more mobile phone lines (51 million) than inhabitants (46 million). Spain has a good legislative framework, and a long but uneven practice of electronic waste (e‑waste) management. The issue of ICTs and climate change, however, is still in its infancy.
Is a priority for researchers to develop the sustainability science, through the integration of m... more Is a priority for researchers to develop the sustainability science, through the integration of multiple disciplines in several scales. Socio-ecological systems under the theory of resilience are aiming to the adaptive capacity to change through the premise of “learning by doing”. Evaluation is viewed as a process to steer and control programs and policies. Stakeholder participation is the key to create knowledge and learn together through an iterative process. Developing the capacity on the stakeholders to learn and take better decisions, it can conduct to a social learning process in a path to sustainable development. Integration and interrelation have they expression on the flow of information. The scientific discourse is on the need for better integration on sustainability science, but better tools are need to reflect this necessity on the practical field. We expose a graphical tool for network analyses to evaluate the interactions between huge amounts of information. If worth of information is on the relations, in graph database models many stakeholders and their activities are tracked in a network that is growing at the same time that the learning process. For the evaluation practice this is a potential because this tool allows recognizing patterns, social networks, analyse relations, detecting emergences or gaps in the knowledge creation. We illustrate the utility of this tool in the Millennium Development Goals, deeply jointed to sustainable development. The necessity to improve sanitation through capacity development in sustainability is a real problem that will need a huge effort that can be evaluated using graph database models.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) provide clear targets by 2015 and it turns out that sanita... more The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) provide clear targets by 2015 and it turns out that sanitation is by far the largest of all the MDG targets affecting about 40% of the global population. The objective of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is to show how Sustainable Sanitation projects should be planned with participation of stakeholders through capacity development activities. Developing the capacity of societies to collaboratively learn through change and uncertainty is fundamental for sustainability science. The aim of this contribution it is to analyze the role of graph database management (GDM) for improve capacity development and knowledge building in the Sustainable Sanitation framework. We provide a theoretical model with four features of network research: link analysis, social network, pattern recognition and keyword search that we illustrate with some examples. Network research allows us to observe how the information in Sustainable Sanitation is scattered properly through the structure and also to detect the emergencies, objections and other characteristics of the network.
És temps de fortuna per als espais que són de tots. Es promou l’aprenentatge per la gestió respon... more És temps de fortuna per als espais que són de tots. Es promou l’aprenentatge per la gestió responsable dels béns de domini públic, es construeix informació, coneixement i tecnologia lliure en sostenibilitat, i es premia cada vegada més l’eficiència en l’ús dels recursos. Aquestes noves oportunitats les posen en pràctica escoles, empreses i emprenedors social motivats en la generació d’un canvi social a millor, profund i durador.
Los derechos humanos han hecho un largo camino, avanzando poco a poco a lo largo de los años. Est... more Los derechos humanos han hecho un largo camino, avanzando poco a poco a lo largo de los años. Estos avances no han sido iguales en todos los países del mundo, y hay grandes diferencias entre estados. Así pues, aunque en un país se puedan respetar estos derechos, la globalización1 ha creado situaciones en las que la aplicación efectiva de los derechos humanos más allá de las propias fronteras escapa al control de los estados y sus sociedades civiles.
Professional skills such as “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility” and “th... more Professional skills such as “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility” and “the broad education necessary for understanding the impact of engineering solutions on a global, economic, environment and societal context” have proved difficult to teach. Moreover, it is difficult to develop these skills at the comprehension and application levels of the Bloom taxonomy. In the Barcelona School of Informatics we teach these skills at application level by using labs in which students repair old fashion or broken PCs, and install free software in order to use this equipment in solidarity projects. This kind of activity has several effects: first of all, it is a way to recycle and reuse some of the many PCs that our university discards and which otherwise would be thrown away. Secondly, students obtain real insight into the above-mentioned skills, which are quite difficult to teach. Students work on real problems that meet full realistic constraints, and learn the social and environmental impact of technology in a very good way: increasing the useful life of electronic equipment, reducing e-waste and influencing the quality of life of the most deprived sections of society.
Service-learning is a method of teaching, learning and reflecting that combines academic classroo... more Service-learning is a method of teaching, learning and reflecting that combines academic classroom curriculum with meaningful service throughout the community. As a teaching methodology, it falls under the philosophy of experiential education. More specifically, it integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, encourage lifelong civic engagement, and strengthen communities for the common good.
Technology for everybody (TXT) is an association of people from the computer science and telecommunication schools at UPC. The main goal is to share our knowledge in Information and Communication Technology to communities that may benefit. In the last few years we have seen how technology has changed our everyday life and became an inner part of a modern society. Lack of access to this knowledge enlarges the distance between communities. In this context, people in TXT aim to narrow the gap by providing technical knowledge to social institutions where this information could be useful.
En los nuevos planes de estudios hay que desarrollar competencias que resultan novedosas: práctic... more En los nuevos planes de estudios hay que desarrollar competencias que resultan novedosas: prácticamente no han sido trabajadas con anterioridad. Cómo enseñarlas y cómo evaluarlas es una preocupación para los diseñadores de los nuevos planes. Este artículo analiza la competencia “Sostenibilidad y Compromiso Social”, explicando técnicas para desarrollarla tanto a nivel de comprensión como al de aplicación, según la taxonomía de Bloom, y analiza las condiciones que deben darse en un centro para poder implementar estas técnicas en las asignaturas de su plan de estudios.
Presentar un modelo basado en el enfoque sistémico contemporáneo que nos ayude a comprender y exp... more Presentar un modelo basado en el enfoque sistémico contemporáneo que nos ayude a comprender y explicar qué elementos y relaciones son claves, dentro y fuera de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), para facilitar la promoción de acciones de compromiso ambiental y social en las áreas de docencia, investigación, gestión de recursos informáticos y relaciones con la comunidad.
En aquesta ponència s’exposa el paper que desenvolupen les tecnologies i enginyeries del Business... more En aquesta ponència s’exposa el paper que desenvolupen les tecnologies i enginyeries del Business Intelligence (BI) en el procés d’adaptació de l’empresa a un model de societat més sostenible. S’argumentarà com la integració de la RSC a la cadena de valor de l’empresa n’és un aspecte clau i es mostraran instruments, tècniques i mètodes que n’optimitzen el procés. També es presentaran exemples de com alguns índexs de sostenibilitat de nivell mundial estan demanant a les empreses un major grau de maduresa BI.
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KEY WORDS: Sostenibilidad, Tecnologías Información y Comunicación, Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, Indicadores de desempeño social y ambiental de las TIC, Business Intelligence, Gestión Adaptativa, Resiliencia, Aprendizaje-Servicio, Análisis Estructural.
Technology for everybody (TXT) is an association of people from the computer science and telecommunication schools at UPC. The main goal is to share our knowledge in Information and Communication Technology to communities that may benefit. In the last few years we have seen how technology has changed our everyday life and became an inner part of a modern society. Lack of access to this knowledge enlarges the distance between communities. In this context, people in TXT aim to narrow the gap by providing technical knowledge to social institutions where this information could be useful.
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KEY WORDS: Sostenibilidad, Tecnologías Información y Comunicación, Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, Indicadores de desempeño social y ambiental de las TIC, Business Intelligence, Gestión Adaptativa, Resiliencia, Aprendizaje-Servicio, Análisis Estructural.
Technology for everybody (TXT) is an association of people from the computer science and telecommunication schools at UPC. The main goal is to share our knowledge in Information and Communication Technology to communities that may benefit. In the last few years we have seen how technology has changed our everyday life and became an inner part of a modern society. Lack of access to this knowledge enlarges the distance between communities. In this context, people in TXT aim to narrow the gap by providing technical knowledge to social institutions where this information could be useful.