2:23 pm on May 5, 2026 · 2026 (268), book discussion (6), environment (6)

WEBINAR 21 MAY 12:00 UTC – Book Launch – Platforms and the Planet: Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental Responsibility

Promotional banner for a book launch webinar titled “Platforms and the Planet: Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental Responsibility.” The event is scheduled for 21 May 2026. The background is dark teal with white text on the left. On the right is the book cover, showing illustrated hands pulling apart a piece of electronic circuitry, symbolizing environmental impact. The book subtitle and editors’ names appear beneath the image. The Emerald Publishing logo is displayed at the bottom left.

Promotional banner for a book launch webinar titled “Platforms and the Planet: Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental Responsibility.” The event is scheduled for 21 May 2026. The background is dark teal with white text on the left. On the right is the book cover, showing illustrated hands pulling apart a piece of electronic circuitry, symbolizing environmental impact. The book subtitle and editors’ names appear beneath the image. The Emerald Publishing logo is displayed at the bottom left. REGISTER | ADD TO CALENDAR | PERMALINK

On Thursday May 21 2026, at 15:00-16:00 EEST (12:00-13:00 UTC) a book launch webinar will be held for ‘Platforms and the Planet: Big Tech, Digital Platforms and Environmental Responsibility‘ (Emerald, 2025).

This volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors from across the globe to develop a critical understanding of the environmental responsibility and accountability of digital platforms aka Big Tech), and their role in the sustainability transition.

PROGRAM

Opening and welcome
Adi Kuntsman – Series Editor
Erinma Ochu – Series Editor
Liu Xin – Series Editor

Introduction: Where platforms and the planet collide
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen – University of Helsinki
Mervi Pantti – University of Helsinki
Olga Dovbysh – University of Helsinki

Chapter teaser: Platform opacity in the global e-waste dilemma
Lauren E. Bridges – University of Virginia /
Vusumuzi Maphosa – National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe

Chapter teaser: Understanding moral lapses in design: Cultural biases, beliefs, and narratives as factors of accidental evil
Thomas Olsson – Tampere University

Commentary
Sara Marcucci – Founder and Director, AI + Planetary Justice Alliance

8:07 am on March 26, 2026 · 2026 (268), environment (6), GDC (10), odet (1), un (41)

WEBINAR APR 15 – UN Global Digital Compact Sustainability Townhall

United Nations promotional banner for a “Sustainability Townhall” on the Global Digital Compact. The design features a dark blue background with the UN logo at top left and the title “GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT” in large white and orange text on the left. On the right are stylized speech bubble icons containing symbols such as plus signs, curly brackets, and a connected globe, representing digital communication and technology. The date “15 April 2026” appears at the bottom.

United Nations promotional banner for a “Sustainability Townhall” on the Global Digital Compact. The design features a dark blue background with the UN logo at top left and the title “GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT” in large white and orange text on the left. On the right are stylized speech bubble icons containing symbols such as plus signs, curly brackets, and a connected globe, representing digital communication and technology. The date “15 April 2026” appears at the bottom.
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On Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 09:00-10:30 EDT (13:00 UTC) the United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) will host a Sustainability Townhall on the Global Digital Compact (GDC). Topic: the environmental cost of digital tech – energy, extraction, e-waste – and how global policy can respond.

Participation is via Microsoft teams, and the registration deadline is March 28.

#GDC #sustainability @ODET_UN

RECORDING – WSIS 2025 High Level Event – Session 413 – Bridging the Digital Divide: Inclusive ICT Policies for Sustainable Development

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On Friday, 11 July 2025 the International Standard University and City University, Bangladesh organized a session ‘Bridging the Digital Divide: Inclusive ICT Policies for Sustainable Development‘ at the WSIS 2025 High level Event in Geneva. The session, alternately titled ‘Inclusive and Ethical ICT Policies for a Sustainable and Equitable Digital Future’, sought to foster a critical dialogue on the urgent need to design, implement, and monitor ICT policies that leave no one behind, using a three-pillared approach: fostering universal connectivity and digital literacy; embedding ethical principles such as transparency, privacy, and human rights in technological development; and promoting sustainability through green ICT practices and equitable access.

SPEAKERS
Dr. Hakikur Rahman – International Standard University
Dr. Ranojit Kumar Dutta – City University

 

#WSIS2025 #DigitalInclusion #EthicalTech #GreenICT #BridgingDigitalDivide @isubangladesh @WSISProcess @ITU @UN

RECORDING – Internet Masr – The Planet Paradox: Digital Infrastructure & Environmental Responsibility

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isoc liveOn  8 May 2025 the Internet Society Egypt Chapter (Internet Masr ) presented the fourth in its infrastructure webinar series with a briefing session ‘The Planet Paradox: Digital Infrastructure & Environmental Responsibility‘.  Ahmed Abdel-Latif explored the real-world impact of digital infrastructure on the planet we live on. As the digital economy continues to grow at an unprecedented pace, the demand for the infrastructure that powers it accelerates. While they are essential to enabling innovation, AI, cloud computing, and global industry reinvention, data centers also raise urgent questions about energy consumption, sustainability, and environmental stewardship.

SPEAKER
Ahmed Abdel-Latif, MEA Digital Infrastructure Expert

HOST
Mariam Fayez, Internet Masr

YOUTUBE | AUDIO | TRANSCRIPT | SUMMARY | SLIDES  | ARCHIVE | PERMALINK

TWITTER #DigitalInfrastructure @Internet_Masr | MASTODON  | BLUESKY  | INSTA

12 Streams 2021 #3 – Beyond the Net webinar on Greening the Internet

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livestreamToday, Tuesday December 28 2021, at 11:55pm EST (04:55 UTC Dec29) in the third installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature the Internet Society Foundation webinar ‘Greening the Internet‘ from 16 December 2021. The Internet Society Zimbabwe Chapter presented their project ‘Greening from the Margins: the Geopolitics of extractive, operational and post-consumer e-waste management’ and the Internet Society Serbia Belgrade Chapter presented their project ‘Air to the people 2.0’.

HOST
Tasnim Broud, Grants Specialist, Beyond the Net, Internet Foundation

PRESENTERS
Jasper Mangwana, ISOC Zimbabwe
Desiree Evans Miloševic & Nevena Nikolic, ISOC Serbia Belgrade

MODERATOR
Guilherme Rocca, Grants Specialist, Beyond the Net, Internet Foundation

VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-3 (Open captions)

TWITTER #12Streams #BeyondTheNet #greeningtheinternet @ISOC_Foundation @ISOCZIM @isoc_belgrade

SIMULCASTS
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/
https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-3

VIDEO: «Faut-il faire des usages un levier de la sobriété numérique? » @FGIFRANCE

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livestreamAujourd’hui 25 mars 2021, le Conseil national du numérique et Renaissance Numérique ont co-organisé un Atelier de IGF France «Faut-il faire des usages un levier de la sobriété numérique? »

Face à l’urgence climatique, la Commission européenne lançait, le 11 décembre 2019, son Pacte vert pour l’Europe, avec l’objectif de rendre le continent neutre en carbone d’ici 2050. Dans la continuité, inspiré par des rapports du Sénat, de l’ARCEP ou encore du Conseil national du numérique, le gouvernement français a présenté le 23 février dernier sa feuille de route “Numérique et environnement”, dont l’un des trois axes principaux est de “soutenir un numérique plus sobre”. Le numérique est considéré à deux niveaux : d’une part réduire son empreinte sur l’environnement et d’autre part pour le mettre à profit de la transition écologique.

Si l’ambition générale est désormais partagée, les mesures pour y répondre demeurent, elles, l’objet de débats. En cause : la difficile évaluation de l’impact du numérique, qui traverse l’ensemble des pans de nos activités. Si l’empreinte environnementale des infrastructures et terminaux est de mieux en mieux connue, l’évaluation des usages numériques pâtit, elle, d’un manque crucial de connaissances et de données. Alors que d’aucuns invitent à distinguer les “usages utiles” des “usages futiles” du numérique, il convient avant tout de s’accorder sur les termes de ce débat.

Qu’entend-on par sobriété numérique ? Quels indicateurs doit-on prendre en considération pour évaluer l’impact des usages numériques sur l’environnement ? Faut-il diminuer les usages ou diminuer leurs impacts ? Quelles conséquences ces initiatives pourraient-elles avoir sur notre conception de l’internet, et notamment la neutralité du net ? Sur les usagers et leur projection dans demain ? Certains usages numériques peuvent-ils, au contraire, participer de la transition écologique ?

L’événement a été retransmis en direct par l’ Internet Society France Chapter.

CONFERENCIERS
Pierre GAUDILLAT, Responsable de projets scientifiques et techniques au CCR – Croissance et Innovation, Economie circulaire et Leadership industriel de la Commission européenne
Olivier GÉRARD, Coordonnateur du pôle Médias-Usages du numérique à l’UNAF
Germain MASSE, Principal product experience manager à OVHcloud
Sophie QUINTON, Chercheuse chargée de recherche à l’INRIA (Institut national de recherche en informatique et automatique) et membre du GDS EcoInfo
Anaïs AUBERT, Adjointe à la cheffe de l’unité Analyse économique et intelligence numérique à l’ARCEP

MODÉRATION
Jennyfer Chrétien, Déléguée Générale de Renaissance Numérique
Vincent Toubiana, Secrétaire général adjoint du Conseil national du numérique

LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/igffrance2021

TWITTER #SobriétéNumérique  #FGIFrance @FGIFRANCE Anaïs Aubert @ARCEP Pierre Gaudillat @EU_ScienceHub Olivier Gérard @unaf_fr Germain Masse @OVHcloud Sophie Quinton @inria_grenoble

SIMULCASTS
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/igffrance2021