{"id":3654,"date":"2023-09-15T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2023-09-15T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T18:36:10","slug":"september-27-event-insolvent-how-to-reorient-computing-for-just-sustainabilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/2023\/09\/15\/september-27-event-insolvent-how-to-reorient-computing-for-just-sustainabilty\/","title":{"rendered":"September 27 Event: Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainabilty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"Insolvent:How can we enact meaningful change in competing to meet the urgent need for sustainability and justice? The deep entanglement of information technology within our societies has raised hope for a transition to more sustainable and just communities\u2013those that phase out fossil fuels, distribute public goods fairly, allow free access to information, and waste less. In principle, computing should be able to help. But in practice, we live in a world in which opaque algorithms steer us toward misinformation and unsustainable consumerism. Insolvent shows why computing’s dominant frame of thinking is conceptually insufficient to address our current challenges, and why computing continues to incur societal debts it cannot pay back. Christoph Becker shows how we can reorient design perspectives in computer science to better align with the values of sustainability and justice.\u00a0<\/p>

Becker positions the role of information technology and computing in environmental sustainability, social justice, and the intersection of the two, and explains why designing IT for just sustainability is both technically and ethically challenging. Becker goes on to argue that computing could be aided by critical friends\u2013disciples that draw on critical social theory, feminist thought, and systems thinking\u2013to make better sense of its role in society. Finally, Becker demonstrates that it is possible to fuse critical perspectives with work in computer science, showing new and fruitful directions for computing professionals and researchers to pursue.\u00a0<\/p>

SPEAKER:<\/b> Christoph Becker (University of Toronto)<\/b><\/p>

WHEN: September 27, 10:00\u201311:00 a.m.<\/b><\/p>

Admission is free, but registration is required.<\/strong><\/p>

Learn more.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can we enact meaningful change in competing to meet the urgent need for sustainability and justice? The deep entanglement of information technology within our societies has raised hope for a transition to more sustainable and just communities\u2013those that phase out fossil fuels, distribute public goods fairly, allow free access to information, and waste less. 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