Permacomputing Promotes Sustainable Digital Practices and Resilience
The Permacomputing working group outlines ten principles for permacomputing, published as guidance promoting Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share to reduce digital technologies' environmental and socio-economic impacts. It highlights hardware care (especially chips), resilience, observation, refusal of unnecessary computing, and transparency to combat e-waste and resource-intensive chip production. The guidance aims to guide practitioners toward context-sensitive, low-impact design, reuse, and demand-reduction strategies.
Key Points
- 1Advocates ten permacomputing principles emphasizing hardware care, resilience, observation, refusal, and transparency
- 2Highlights chip production's high resource use and e-waste, framing systemic harms beyond individual devices
- 3Encourages practitioners to prioritize maintenance, refuse unnecessary computing, and design context-sensitive low-impact systems
Scoring Rationale
Moderate-to-high impact due to actionable sustainability guidance for practitioners, but limited by community-sourced, non-peer-reviewed material and lacking empirical validation.
Sources
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