Slow Tech and ICT

Outlines a new approach to ICT, taking environmentalism and fairness at work into account
Satisfies the need for a more proactive computer ethics that addresses issues at design stage

Lays out a set of ethical principles that can be applied to real-life business settings

Autorentext

Norberto Patrignani is Associate Lecturer of Computer Ethics at Politecnico di Torino and of ICT & Information Society at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, ethics expert to the European Commission, and Scientific Advisor to the Loccioni Group, Ancona, Italy. He is the Italian representative to IFIP's Technical Committee on Computers and Society.

Diane Whitehouse is a founding partner of The Castlegate Consultancy, which concentrates on research, policy, and deployment in digital health, and an eHealth policy consultant at European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL), Belgium. She is co-Chair of the International Federation for Information Processing's (IFIP) domain committee on health informatics. In 2017, she was awarded HIMSS Europe's eHealth Leadership Award.

Inhalt
Introduction .- Pneumatophores .- Speed Limits in Cyberspace .- Stories about Speed and Time .- Information: Environmental and Human Limits .- The Beginning of a New Renaissance in ICT .- Slow Tech: A Good, Clean, and Fair ICT .- Applying Slow Tech in Real Life .- Energy, Time and Information: a Long-term View of ICT.