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Autumn 2003 Archive
The REC Bulletin. Autumn 2003, Volume
12 Number 3
The Autumn issue of our quarterly magazine, The
Bulletin, focused on information technologies, the
environment and democracy. The
lead story came out in favour of libraries and the
potential they have to support equitable access to environmental
information as well as bridge the digital divide.
World Summit on the Information Society,
December 10-12, 2003, Geneva
The first phase of the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) took place in Geneva on December 10-12,
2003. It was hosted by the Swiss government and brought
together more than 11,000 delegates representing 176 countries.
The three-day summit was the first multi-stakeholder global
effort to develop a shared vision of an information society.
The summit's most notable achievement was the consensus
earned for the Declaration
of Principles and Plan of Action. The second phase of the WSIS will be hosted
by the government of Tunisia and will take place in Tunis,
on November 16-18, 2005.
On the opening day of the WSIS, the United Nations Economic
Commission for Europe (UNECE) organised an Aarhus Convention
side event on Environmental
Democracy.
ICT and Environmental Sustainability:
Scenario Validation Workshop. June 23, 2003, London and
Model Validation Workshop. September 18, 2003, St. Gallen,
Switzerland
The two workshops were part of the Future Impact of ICT
on Environmental Sustainability project, commissioned
by the Institute for Prospective Technological
Studies (IPTS). The project aimed to build a set of
three scenarios for the development of ICT until 2020,
and how this might affect the environment.
The third interim report on the scenarios is available.
More information on the project and other useful documents
are accessible at the Clean Technologies and Foresight on Information Society
Technologies in Europe (FISTE) websites. A final synthesis
report will be finished in 2004.
Life Cycle Analysis for Assessing Energy
and Environmental Implications of Information Technology,
Advanced research workshop, Budapest, Hungary,
September 1-3, 2003
The NATO Science Programme in conjunction
with the Carnegie Bosch Institute organised a workshop
to examine the proliferation of information and communications
technology (ICT), which they defined as “a double-edged
sword. On one hand, it provides a vast cyber-infrastructure,
capable of collecting and assessing data, as well as computer
models that allow us to better understand and manage environmental
problems. However, these systems also generate significant
environmental impacts . . .”
More on the workshop, as well as links to presentations
are available.
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