Citizen, Teaching, Industry, Cities for Future Mobility

ICT is a key component of many technical urban mobility projects.

During the 2 hour event the sustainability assessment of ICT technologies will be discussed.

Starting with the legal framework referring to the non-financial report of big companies and with the review of SDG and specially target 12.6, the principal environmental and social impacts of projects related with ICT will be unravelled. Problems related with raw materials, the huge energy needed to fabricate electronics circuits, the materiality of the “cloud”, the energy needed to send information from server to user, between others, will be presented and confronted with the current knowledge of the attendees. Ethics considerations will also be discussed.

A simple guideline to make the non financial report of any ICT project will be presented