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Gender researchers have shown not only that the use and design of technologies is gendered, but that people also position themselves in relation to technology, based on certain gendered assumptions about technology in societies. This article looks at how people working in quintessential information and knowledge society professions, namely information communication technology(ICT) work, position themselves in relation to technology. Using a social constructivist framework and a discourse analysis, it shows how gender differences are achieved in communication: men tend to describe technology as a toy, while women tend to describe technology as a tool. This article argues that the way in which people position themselves in relation to technology continues to be gendered, which may threaten gender equality in the information and knowledge society, and it also indicates that there is the possibility of change.
SDG Topics: Gender Equality / Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure.

A major issue for the world’s poorest communities and those most vulnerable to climate change is the impact of the digital divide, which reduces access to information. Some of these communities are scattered across the Pacific where access to technology and in particular the Internet is limited. The purpose of the game was to help youth in the Pacific understand and learn about strategies for dealing with, and adapting to, climate change. The project required the collaboration of research students from my university (Monash University, Australia) and UNICEF Pacific staff (Fiji) and was supported by a grant from the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Canada. Through the process of designing and developing the game we learned much about collaboration at a distance, how the students went about the task of game development and how to co-create a digital game. An important outcome has been understanding more about how to engage the youth of the Pacific in technology.

In the 1990s, the government of India began a program to digitize and open land records, one rooted in what open data proponents tout as its chief virtue. Digitizing the Record of Rights, Tenants, and Crops (RTC) along with demographic and spatial data was intended to empower citizens against state bureaucracies and corrupt officials through transparency and accountability. In fact, what happened was anything but democratic. The claims of the lowest classes of Indian society were completely excluded from the records, leading to the loss of their historic land tenancies to groups better able to support their land claims within the process defined by the data systems. Far from empowering the least well off, the digitization program reinforced the power of bureaucracies, public officials, and developers. This case illustrates an underappreciated challenge in data science: creating systems that promote justice.

Sustainability has become a significant issue for every enterprise and, in particular, IT management, states the report "Sustainable IT Provision -- Meeting the Challenge of Corporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility," recently published by Butler Group. An obvious starting point for energy reduction is to ensure that all computer equipment is turned off when it is not being used, enabling power management capability, and having effective asset management where unused equipment is quickly decommissioned. The growing amount of uncontrolled storage cannot be allowed to carry on indefinitely. The time has come to address the mounting disparity between storage management and the growing number of storage devices and capacity.
SDG Topics: Affordable & Clean Energy / Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure / Sustainable Cities & Communities / Responsible Consumption & Production / Climate Action.

Sustainability has become a significant issue for every enterprise and, in particular, IT management, states the report "Sustainable IT Provision -- Meeting the Challenge of Corporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility," recently published by Butler Group. An obvious starting point for energy reduction is to ensure that all computer equipment is turned off when it is not being used, enabling power management capability, and having effective asset management where unused equipment is quickly decommissioned. The growing amount of uncontrolled storage cannot be allowed to carry on indefinitely. The time has come to address the mounting disparity between storage management and the growing number of storage devices and capacity.
SDG Topics: Affordable & Clean Energy / Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure / Sustainable Cities & Communities / Responsible Consumption & Production / Climate Action.

Sustainability has become a significant issue for every enterprise and, in particular, IT management, states the report "Sustainable IT Provision -- Meeting the Challenge of Corporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility," recently published by Butler Group. An obvious starting point for energy reduction is to ensure that all computer equipment is turned off when it is not being used, enabling power management capability, and having effective asset management where unused equipment is quickly decommissioned. The growing amount of uncontrolled storage cannot be allowed to carry on indefinitely. The time has come to address the mounting disparity between storage management and the growing number of storage devices and capacity.
SDG Topics: Affordable & Clean Energy / Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure / Sustainable Cities & Communities / Responsible Consumption & Production / Climate Action.

Sustainability has become a significant issue for every enterprise and, in particular, IT management, states the report "Sustainable IT Provision -- Meeting the Challenge of Corporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility," recently published by Butler Group. An obvious starting point for energy reduction is to ensure that all computer equipment is turned off when it is not being used, enabling power management capability, and having effective asset management where unused equipment is quickly decommissioned. The growing amount of uncontrolled storage cannot be allowed to carry on indefinitely. The time has come to address the mounting disparity between storage management and the growing number of storage devices and capacity.
SDG Topics: Affordable & Clean Energy / Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure / Sustainable Cities & Communities / Responsible Consumption & Production / Climate Action.