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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINFORMATIK 2016
EditorsHeinrich Christian Mayr, Martin Pinzger
Number of pages12
Place of PublicationBonn
PublisherKöllen Verlag
Publication date2016
Pages1285-1296
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-88579-653-4
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventAnnual Meeting of the German Informatics Society: Informatik von Menschen für Menschen - Alpen-Adria Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria
Duration: 26.09.201630.09.2016
Conference number: 46
http://www.informatik2016.de/

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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.

    Research areas

  • Environmental informatics, Green software products, Transdisciplinary
  • Business informatics

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