The development of an eco-label for software products: A transdisciplinary process?
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Research activities are mainly realized in exclusive academic contexts, excluding social actors. However, some disciplines gain a big social relevance and thus should include nonacademics in the research process. One example could be the research in the context of environmental impacts of ICT. Hence, the following paper addresses the question if it stands to reason to apply a transdisciplinary project in the field of Environmental and Sustainability Informatics. To do so, attributes, requirements and a conceptual model of transdisciplinary research are applied to the case example of labelling green software products. The result of this theoretical analysis is that it is possible and promising to apply transdisciplinary ideas to sustainability informatics projects.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | INFORMATIK 2016 |
Editors | Heinrich Christian Mayr, Martin Pinzger |
Number of pages | 12 |
Place of Publication | Bonn |
Publisher | Köllen Verlag |
Publication date | 2016 |
Pages | 1285-1296 |
ISBN (electronic) | 978-3-88579-653-4 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Event | Annual Meeting of the German Informatics Society: Informatik von Menschen für Menschen - Alpen-Adria Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria Duration: 26.09.2016 → 30.09.2016 Conference number: 46 http://www.informatik2016.de/ |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
We would like to thank all the community participants and practitioners who so willingly gave of their time and contributed so candidly to the study. Funding was provided by the National Research Foundation (NRF2047368 and NRF2053690), the University of the Witwatersrand and the Threatened Species Programme, South African National Biodiversity Institute. Michael Philip, the editor, is also thanked for his valuable comments which greatly improved the paper.
- Environmental informatics, Green software products, Transdisciplinary
- Business informatics