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Sustainable Digitalisation

Act Now

Reduce Mobile Phone Emissions: Save Mobile Data and Protect the Planet

If you want to save CO2, take a look in your trouser pocket! We show how you can reduce your digital carbon footprint via your mobile phone.

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Environment

Green Innovation

Public Interest AI: Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good Requires a Rethink

AI that serves the common good? To do so, it must be designed differently to its big tech siblings. Theresa Züger is researching this at the HIIG institute.

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Sustainable Digitalisation

Knowledge

Uncovering the Hidden Water Footprint of AI: Solutions for Quenching Its Insatiable Thirst

Our digital lives rely on data centres. But their cooling systems are threatening global water supplies, leaving citizens thirsty.

Civic Tech

Ways out of the Climate Crisis with Digital Civic Engagement

With the help of digital tools, citizens can uncover environmental problems, collect important data and support protective measures. In this Special Feature, we explore the question: How can civic tech solutions advance climate protection?

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RESET Special Feature: Civic Tech – Ways out of the Climate Crisis with Digital Civic Engagement

What is Civic Tech?

Civic Tech – How Citizens Shape the Future with Digital Technologies. Interview with Geraldine de Bastion

Interview: Cloud Service ClimateVisualizer Helps Local Communities Stay on Top of Carbon Emissions

Satellites and Drones

Effective Helpers for Sustainable Development?

When it comes to protecting the environment and tracking changes in our climate, satellites and drones have become indispensable. If only there wasn’t the issue of all that space debris… In RESET’s latest special feature, we’ve been taking a look at the potentials – and pitfalls – of satellites and drones for a sustainable future on this planet.

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RESET Special Feature: Satellites and Sustainability

Interview: How ESA Is Making Space Travel More Sustainable

Outer Space for All! Just How Accessible Is ESA’s Satellite Data?

Interview: Space Junk – How Can We Stop Outer Space Turning Into a Garbage Dump?

Artificial Intelligence

Can Computing Power Save Our Planet?

Artificial intelligence has long since solved complex tasks and made our everyday lives easier. But do intelligent computer programmes also provide new solutions for environmental and climate protection? Here we set out to find answers to these questions.

 

 

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Artificial Intelligence: Can We Save Our Planet With Computing Power?

Interview: How Can We Make AI More Environmentally Friendly?

Data4Human: Aid Organisations Get a Helping Hand From the German Aerospace Center

Wildlife Insights: A Google-Built AI is Taking Animal Surveillance to New Levels

Blockchain and Sustainable Development

How Does It Work?

Everyone is talking about blockchain and DLT. But what exactly are they and how do they work? In RESET’s latest Blockchain Special, we offer some answers to those questions and take a look at how the tech can be used for both social and ecological good.

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Blockchain and Sustainable Development – How Does It Work?

Blockchain-Based Platform Textile Trust Aims to Make Industry Supply Chains More Transparent

Interview: How MineSpider is Using Blockchain to Keep Conflict Minerals Out of Our Supply Chains

What Exactly Are the Blockchain and DLT?

E-Mobility

Is Electromobility Key to a Future-Proof City?

Is the future electric? Our roads might still be dominated by conventional cars right now, but when it comes to e-mobility, there are promising developments. We looked at the current status quo, the potentials and future predictions, for an electric revolution.

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E-Mobility: Where Is It Taking Us?

New Study Shows: Electromobility Could be Carbon Neutral by 2050

Vehicle-to-Grid: Using Electric Cars To Store Renewable Energy

EU Mobility Atlas Reveals Potentials of Sustainable Transportation – But There’s a Long Road Ahead

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Civic Tech

Green Innovation

Endof10 is Giving Your Old PC a New Lease on Life

If it aint broke, throw it away and get a new one? Not quite. Endof10 is providing a simple alternative to Window’s maddening and environmentally damanging system change.
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Sustainable Digitalisation

Green Innovation

“Data Centres Will Account for the Majority of Digitalisation’s CO2 Emissions”: An Interview With Ralph Hintemann (Borderstep Institute)

Data centres are often referred to as the heart, backbone or bottleneck of digitalisation. All comparisons point to the fact that nothing works in the digital world without data centres. Every video we stream, every search query we send, every cloud service we use: data centres are responsible for processing all of our actions online.
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Sustainable Digitalisation

Knowledge

This Is How Much Power Is Consumed by Trackers and Advertising in Our Mobile Apps

Apple ushered in the age of apps over 15 years ago with the slogan “There’s an app for that”. However, a study from 2024 shows that mobile games, weather apps and the like often consume an unnecessary amount of energy. How can we reduce the digital carbon footprint of our smartphone apps?
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Sustainable Digitalisation

Green Innovation

Photonic Integrated Circuits “Break New Ground”, Reducing Waste Heat of Data Centres

New study reveals how Photonic Integrated Circuits could reduce data centre energy consumption by replacing electrons with light particles.
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Sustainable Digitalisation

Knowledge

Tomorrow’s AI, Today’s Problem: How Toxic GAI E-Waste Could Engulf the Planet

Generative AI (GAI) is taking over the world—in more ways than one. One new study has shed light on the hidden impact of LLM e-waste, in the hope that we can stem its tide before it’s too late.
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Sustainable Digitalisation

Green Innovation

The Data Governance Guide Helps Public Authorities Overcome “A Fragmented Data Landscape” To Make the Most of Digital Data

Too many digital projects don’t make the most of data’s potential. The new Data Governance Guide is here to help.
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Sustainable Digitalisation

Green Innovation

How the Semiconductor Industry Can Become More Sustainable

Found in toasters, computers and your smartphone: semiconductors are among the most important components in the digital world. With the “Semiconductor Emission Explorer”, a team of German researchers wants to lead the semiconductor industry towards a better carbon footprint.
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Sustainable Digitalisation

Green Innovation

How Digicow Is Transforming Farming in Kenya, One Voice Note at a Time

Kenyan agri-tech start-up DigiCow is transforming rural farming by delivering expert advice through farmers’ phones, one voice note at a time.
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Sustainable Digitalisation

Green Innovation

The Civic Data Lab Empowers Organisations to Harness Shared Data for Public Good

Could the way Germans view data be about to change? The Civic Data Lab teaches organisations how to use data for good.
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