03229nam 22005895 450 991029818340332120200701062955.03-319-68944-410.1007/978-3-319-68944-9(CKB)4340000000223471(DE-He213)978-3-319-68944-9(MiAaPQ)EBC5178298(PPN)222239204(EXLCZ)99434000000022347120171129d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSlow Tech and ICT[electronic resource] A Responsible, Sustainable and Ethical Approach /by Norberto Patrignani, Diane Whitehouse1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (XXI, 148 p. 8 illus. in color.) 3-319-68943-6 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Introduction -- Pneumatophores -- Speed Limits in Cyberspace -- Stories about Speed and Time -- Information: Environmental and Human Limits -- The Beginning of a New Renaissance in ICT -- Slow Tech: A Good, Clean, and Fair ICT -- Applying Slow Tech in Real Life -- Energy, Time and Information: a Long-term View of ICT.This book makes an important contribution to the recent evolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that are human-centred and socially desirable, environmentally sustainable, and ethically acceptable. It introduces the concept of moral, equitable and environmental limits in the ICT domain and proposes a Slow Tech approach to face the challenges of these limits, laying out a set of principles that can be applied in real-life business settings. With the launch of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the growing interest in the circular economy, Slow Tech and ICT - A Responsible, Sustainable and Ethical Approach is a timely tool for forward-thinking businesses.Information technologyBusiness—Data processingManagementIndustrial managementBusiness ethicsIT in Businesshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/522000Innovation/Technology Managementhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/518000Business Ethicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/526000Information technology.Business—Data processing.Management.Industrial management.Business ethics.IT in Business.Innovation/Technology Management.Business Ethics.650658.05Patrignani Norbertoauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1063835Whitehouse Dianeauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910298183403321Slow Tech and ICT2534948UNINA