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“We’re all in this together”From Clashes to Collaboration –
a business and IT perspective to support greener global citizenship
Presented by Jan Green, and Denise Oram Glyndŵr University, Wrexham
24 March 2010
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Presentation Format
• Introduction• Ride the energy bike• The role of the eco-team• Source locally• IT perspective – creating awareness• Green IT and sustainable issues as an essential
element of socially responsible computing• Summary
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Introduction
• Who are we?• We are corporate citizens:• Corporate Citizenship: ‘Understanding and
managing a company’s wider influences on society for the benefit of the company and society as a whole’
• (Andriof and McIntosh 2001)
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Let me tell you a story …… about the energy bike - www.globalactionplan.org
• The bike is connected to an alternator which translates the energy created by cyclists into electricity
• The electricity is then used to power a range of appliances – a light bulb, a computer screen and a radio
• Extra pedal power!
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The Energy Bikewww.globalactionplan.org.uk
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Highly effective in changing behaviour – Restorick (2007)
• 80% have installed low energy light bulbs• 96% turn off stand-by functions on electrical
equipment• 92% turn off mobile phone charges at the socket• 50% switch off computer monitors when away
from their desk – and each evening• 68% only fill the kettle with the amount of water
need
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Continuous Improvement Using Eco-teams
• Generating and implementing employee ideas through participation
• Kaizen – perform a little better each day• Group of workers performing similar tasks• Attendance is voluntary• Meetings are regular and within normal working
time, free from interruption• Process is supervised or led• Aim: to identify, analyse and solve work related
problems and recommend solutions to managers
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Quality Circles
• Individual identification of problem• Prioritise issues to work on• Develop a solution – using quality tools• Present solution to management• Implement solution• Monitor change• Identify problem – repeat the cycle
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To take away with you ….Quality Circles in Practice
• Silent session to consider and identify -1. the environmental problem you would like to solve in your organisation2. what do you perceive the benefits of solving this problem will be at:
the individual levelthe organisational level
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Is Your Journey Really Necessary?
• In times of bad weather our risk averse culture generates national news bulletins from the highways agencies and police not to travel unless our journey is really necessary
• Why do we travel?• Why do goods travel?
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Sources
• In northern Europe, do we NEED strawberries from New Zealand for Christmas lunch?
• Over to you – where did the footwear and clothing you are wearing today originate from?
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Real stuff!• In discussions earlier this year with the Built
Environment department at Glyndŵr University commented:
• When we add in procurement our carbon footprint doubles – results of independent survey carried out by SQW – covering Welsh based Universities
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Contributions to Air Pollution - USA family Embree (2007)
Contributions to Air Pollution
60% 19%
7%
14%Tranport
Electricity
Home Fuel
Purchases
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Social Channel Capacity
• Work of Robin Dunbar (1992)
• The maximum number of persons ‘with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship – ie – knowing who they are and how they relate to us’
• Magic number – or tipping point is 150 – over this number people become strangers, organizations, group etc – “things get clumsy at 150” (Gladwell 2000:184)
• Our plea is – use yours – spread the message
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Personal practice ………
• Rainwater butt – water garden, wash car, wash windows and other outdoor cleaning
• Compost – fruit and vegetable peelings• Lavatory water cistern• Buy appropriate quantities of food that is locally
produced wherever possible• Change shopping habits• Denise will expand this into the IT sector …
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Personal practice …an IT perspective
Moral dilemma
• How to continue with e-innovation and resolve issues of sustainability
• Raising awareness of sustainability issues and considerations advancing technologies present
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Exponential development
Consideration:
• Social involvement
• Impact on environment
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Re-cycling – a solution, justification?
• An ethical approach
• Dumping grounds
• Exposure to toxic waste
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21st Century
• Ethical focus shifting to individual’s personal rights and responsibilities towards others
• Much the case with sustainability of e-technologies
• What can we as individuals do?
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Issues
• Brundtland: “A development is sustainable if it meet the needs of the present without compromising ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
• Fashion driven by technological advance• Consistently improved models • Profit-driven manufacturers
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Issues
• Change in culture • Design and development• Wants and needs of society driven by trends• Global business demands• Moral integrity on decline
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Changes
• Long-term growth• Prevention rather than cure• Consider corporate social responsibility &
accountability• Honesty, obligation & integrity• Ethical factors: ‘must’, ‘ought’, ‘should’
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What is needed?
Tool:• To address issues of sustainability• To be used by system engineers & developers• For those responsible for educating future
professionals
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Importance -Decision-making
• In process of creation and development of new technologies to address issues of sustainability
• New responsibility to develop new values into agreed standards to support change
• Application of ethical decision-making procedures
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Ethical decision-making
• Crucial to improve student’s perspective of sustainable issues and decision-making through integration into their learning experience
Stahl: “students need to adopt ‘reflective responsibility’ as an expression of an ethically reflected morality”
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Culturally negotiated ethical triangle: a mechanism for visualising and creating awareness of issues at
stake in ethical decision-making (Oram and Headon, 2002, Oram, 2009)
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Global character of digital technology
Generates:• New lifestyles, new standards and human
behaviours, new values, new cultures, new civilisations.
Emerging technologies offer:• Opportunities to improve people’s lives• but may present new threats to their rights
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Summary
• Plan to source locally• Change your behaviour• Expand local perspective• Ripple-effect the message• Celebrate!• Any questions?
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References• Blowfield M and Murray A (2008) Corporate Responsibility – a critical
introduction Oxford University Press• Brundtland. WCED (World Commission on Environment and
Development). Our Common Future. Oxford. U.K. WCED 1987• Embree C (2007) Engaging Consumers through Corporate Marketing
and PR Programs (in Tang and Yeoh Cut Carbon, Grow Profits, Middlesex University Press
• Gladwell M (2000) The tipping point Boston: Little, Brown• Gray B (1985) Conditions facilitating interorganizational collaboration
Human Relations 38(10):911-936• Restorick T (2007) Engaging Employees in Climate Change (see Tang
and Yeoh)• Stahl, B C. (2007). Reflective responsibility for risk: a critical view of
software and information systems development risk management. Int. J. Risk, Assessment and Management. Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 312-325
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References
• Oram, D. & Headon, M. (2002). Avoiding information systems failure: culturally determined ethical approaches and their practical application in the new economy., Kaunas, Lithuania, 18-19 April 2002 (Kaunas University of Technology & Lithuanian Ministry of Social Security and Labour). InEkonomika (Engineering Economics) no. 2 (28), pp. 9-13
• Oram, D., "Considering Sustainability Through Ethical Approaches and their Practical Application", Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS '09), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 18-20 2009.