Transitions²: Bringing Together the Digital and the Ecological Transitions
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The ecological transition has a goal, but not the path to get there. The digital transition transforms everything, but knows not into what. Each one needs the other!
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Transcript of Transitions²: Bringing Together the Digital and the Ecological Transitions
The ecological transition has a goal, but not the path to get there.The digital transition transforms everything, but knows not into what.
Each one needs the other!
The Situation Is Bad…And Shows Little Signs of Progress
Our Upper & Lower "Planetary Boundaries"
Oxfam /http://www.kateraworth.com
Living On 2000 Watts(Saul Griffith, 2008)
A Systemic Issue
Digital & Environmental
Source:OECD
What Can Digital Culture Bring to Ecology?
Systematic Exploration Multi-source Improvements
Fast, global, low-costdeployment
Interconnectionw/other projects
Collaborative Quality Control
Legal designs favouringdiffusionTools
Templates
Platforms
Standards
Win-win cooperation
Positive-sumdisruption
Value-exchangenetworks
Mass-Collaborationtools & experience
… WHAT ELSE?
Agility
Digital "Levers" vs. the Issues
OPTIMAL
SMARTSOFT
OPEN
EMPOWERING
& DISTRIBUTED
DISRUPTIVEAGILE
2-Ways Enrichment
DIGITAL ECOLOGY
Desirable, Diverse,Fun Futures
People-PoweredChallenges
From Tech toTechno-Social Drive
SystemicThinking
Multifactor Metrics& Accounting
Scaling (direct& networked)
Prosumers& Commons
Challenges
Factor 4 Innovation Act Local Open Models for Sustainability
What if innovation was the key to unlocking a sustainable
future? How would it change environmental issues, and how
would such a goal change innovation itself?
What if digital tools and methods became the engines of local ecological transitions,
empowering their stakeholders, facilitating
participation, networking and scaling projects?
What if open economic models were key to solving
environmental issues ? What would it take?
Breathe your City Active Mobilities Also, in 2016…
What if bottom-up collaboration, entrepreneurial
innovation, and public intervention, improved
knowledge as well as action on the link between pollution and
health?
What if cycling became the focus of innovative services
and uses, contributing to sustainability as well as job
creation?
IT'S ON YOU!
