Instructions for seminar 2 (Thu Sept 26)

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Seminar 2 will be held:

- For group A on Thursday September 26 at 10-12 in E53

- For group B on Thursday September 26 at 10-12 in M33

- For group D on Thursday September 26 at 15-17 in Q21

- For group C on Thursday September 26 at 15-17 in Q26.

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You have now learned more about sustainability, about the challenges we are facing and the relationship between computers, ICT and sustainability and you will, at lecture 4 with Jorge Zapico, have started to explore more proactive uses of what can be done for ICT to have a positive impact. At seminar 2 (Thursday Sept 26) we will get more hands-on and we will have a mini Green Hackathon* brainstorming session.

Instructions for seminar 2:

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Everyone should write down an idea that either:

1a. Uses ICT for sustainability purposes in terms of efficiency, dematerialization, visualization, lifestyle changes... (see the literature for Lecture 4), or,

1b. Reduces the impact of ICT through green IT, optimization, new ways of using IT, reduction...

- Your idea can describe a new application or service, improvements to existing things, remixes and mash-ups, new initiatives...

- The description of your idea should be comprehensive, around 200-400 words, and it should include some background information about the problem to be solved and some background research on similar ideas and attempts to solve it.
- Your idea should be somewhat original, meaning that if your idea is something like using smart meters to visualize electricity consumption (i.e. something which it has already been explored by other projects), your idea has to be a little more concrete such as exploring a specific aspect or idea of implementation.

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Please submit your idea though this Google form. Since there is such a short time between Jorge's lecture and the seminar, the deadline for completing this task is postponed this week and the deadline for submitting your idea is Wednesday September 25 at midnight. 

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During the seminar we will discuss your different ideas and improve them together in an iterative process. Each idea will be presented and we will use different "lenses" to explore problems and possibilities of each idea:

- Environmental lens: How does it affect the environment (in terms of direct/indirect, planned/unplanned effects etc.)?

- Simplicity lens: Do we really need this? Can it be done with less technology? Cust it be done at all?

- Social lens: How does this affect people? Communities? Society? Does it make their life more complicated? Can it have unexpected consequences?

- Feasibility lens: How can it be implemented? Does it have an economic model? Are there/what are the technical challenges?

* Green Hackathon is a series of events that we started at KTH where developers meet and create applications and prototypes with a sustainability purpose. You can read more information and have a look at the hacks created at: http://greenhackathon.com.