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talk - presentation - panel “The Tech We Want is Sustainable for People and the Planet” – The Tech We Want Online Summit, online October 2024

About the panel:

Eco, green, or simply sustainable technologies have several implicit meanings: long life, affordable maintenance, skilled people, resource-friendly, economical to use, renewable, regenerative, etc. In this panel, thinkers, practitioners and promoters of different aspects of software sustainability will discuss if and how it is possible to achieve a development model for people and the planet. Is there a way out of the disaster versus greenwashing narratives?

Panelists: 
– Christoph Becker, Associate Professor at University of Toronto, author of “Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability”
– Shweata Hegde, Developer at semanticClimate 
– Fieke Jansen, Co-principal Investigator at Critical Infrastructure Lab 
– Paz Peña, Independent consultant and activist, author of “Technologies for a burning planet” 
– Maxwell Beganim, Co-lead of the Open Goes COP coalition, Director of Open Knowledge Ghana 

Moderator: Lucas Pretti, OKFN

More information can be found here