A5088163907- Green IT and Sustainability
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Digital Innovation in Industries
- Social Media and Politics
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Social Policies and Healthcare Reform
- Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Digital Platforms and Economics
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
- Economic and Technological Developments in Russia
- Economic Development and Digital Transformation
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Vehicle emissions and performance
Institute for Ecological Economy Research
2021-2024
Technische Universität Berlin
2021
The increased use of Artificial intelligence systems (AI systems) is associated with multifaceted social, environmental, and economic consequences. These include nontransparent decision-making processes, discrimination, increasing inequalities, rising energy consumption greenhouse gas emissions in AI model development application, an concentration power. By considering the multidimensionality sustainability, this paper takes steps toward substantiating call for overarching perspective on...
ICT hold significant potential to increase resource and energy efficiencies contribute a circular economy. Yet unresolved is whether the aggregated net effect of overall mitigates or aggravates environmental burdens. While savings potentials have been explored, drivers that prevent these possible counter measures not researched thoroughly. The concept digital sufficiency constitutes basis understand how can become part essential transformation. Digital consists four dimensions, each...
Current imaginaries of urban smart grid technologies are painting attractive pictures the kinds energy futures that desirable and attainable in cities. Making claims about future city, socio-technical related to developments unfold power guide policymaking implementation practices. This paper analyses how being imagined co-produced city Berlin, Germany. It explores these show politics Berlin’s transition driven by techno-optimistic visions city’s digital modernisation its ambitions become a...
Automated decision-making based on Artificial Intelligence is associated with growing expectations and to contribute sustainable development goals. Which opportunities risks for the environment, economy society are Intelligence-based applications how can they be governed?
The concept of the rebound effect is important in understanding limits to how much technological efficiency improvements can reduce energy and resource consumption. However, due concept's focus on efficiency, it neglects other environmental implications change. We use term “induction effect” grasp additional mechanisms stemming from new technologies. define an induction as increase level or consumption that was caused enabled by emergence “new options” arising Our investigation three cases...
Can digitalisation be part of the solution to pressing sustainability challenges? Or are current developments going impede a socio-ecological transformation? The answer is not black and white; it complex cross-cutting. We analyse key problems give an outlook on possible solutions.
High energy consumption and data traffic, critical production conditions proprietary software ensure that the use of digital technologies applications have so far been environmentally socially problematic. We present basic approaches policy measures for a sustainable design hardware software.
The increased use of AI systems is associated with multi-faceted societal, environmental, and economic consequences. These include non-transparent decision-making processes, discrimination, increasing inequalities, rising energy consumption greenhouse gas emissions in model development application, an concentration power. By considering the multi-dimensionality sustainability, this paper takes steps towards substantiating call for overarching perspective on "sustainable AI". It presents...
The energy transition requires a restructuring of the system and, as result decentralisation, also increasing digitalisation to integrate all actors and make them more flexible. However, can be shaped should happen under ecological social premises.
Einführung in das Schwerpunktthema
The discussion about the disruptive possibilities of a technology called artificial intelligence (AI) is on everyone's lips. Companies and countries alike are running multi-billion-dollar research programmes to ensure they do not miss out global innovation hunt. Among many other applications, AI also supposed aid large-scale changes needed achieve sustainable societies. To assess those claims possibilities, this article briefly explains, classifies, theorises then politically contextualises...
Editorial
Städte und Landkreise haben eine Schlüsselrolle in der digitalen Transformation. Doch was heißt kommunale Selbstverwaltung im Zeitalter? Am Beispiel des Bündnisses Digitale Stadt Berlin zeigt Beitrag, wie unsere nicht nur smart, sondern auch inklusiv demokratisch werden können.