GISWatch 2010: Focus on ICTs and environmental sustainability

Global Information Society Watch 2010

Focus on ICTs and environmental sustainability

GISWatch 2010 includes seven thematic reports, dealing with the global ICT footprint, emerging research agendas, sustainability, e‑waste, smart technologies, green grassroots technologies, and building advocacy networks, as well as an institutional overview and a consideration of green indicators. There is also a mapping section – an exciting new addition to the GISWatch report. This year it offers a comparative analysis of “green” media spheres on the web.

There are six regional reports, from South Asia, East Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe,
North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean, which precede 53 individual country reports.

GISWatch 2010 is a rallying cry to electronics producers and consumers, policy makers and development organisations to pay urgent attention to the sustainability of the environment. It spells out the impact that the production, consumption and disposal of computers, mobile phones and other technology are having on the earth’s natural resources, on political conflict and social rights, and the massive global carbon footprint produced.

View and download the report here:
http://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/gisw2010_en.pdf

About GISWatch:
GISWatch aims to make a critical contribution to building a people-centred information society. Its
purpose is to stimulate a collaborative approach to policy advocacy and create a common platform where
disparate experiences can be shared, and progress – and lack of progress – assessed. Ultimately, it
hopes to impact on policy development processes in countries, regions and at a global level.

GISWatch is a joint initiative of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos).