The thesis is developed that the key to human survivability and sustainability lies in our ability to make use of knowledge tools primarily the latest electronic ones, namely, computers and the Internet. We show that computing and the Internet are part of a evolutionary chain of languages which also includes speech, writing, math, and science, where language is defines as communications plus in...

The objective of this research is to develop a knowledge base to represent and integrate data schemas for sustainability indicators. Over the past 30 years, sustainability and sustainable development not only in environmental, but also in economic and social areas has become a key theme in both academic and popular literature. The focus in this research is on how to represent the important feat...

The open and fragmented nature of IS research has spawned a vibrant debate about sustainability of the IS discipline. Intellectually stimulating and rooted in a rich repertoire of approaches, the debate is frequently polarized along a dialectical spectrum, where advocates take positions on appropriate boundaries and audiences for the discipline. With the objective of reframing this debate, and ...

The Skill "Sustainability and Socia Commitment" is commonly accepted as essential in today's world. However it proves tricky to introduce into the curriculum, mainly because of lack of knowledgeable teachers. To address this issue we present a knowledge base that brings together scientific articles, books, videos, compilations of data, experiences, etc., related to sustainability and knowledge ...

This introductory chapter provides definitions of sustainability, sustainable development, decoupling, and related terms; gives an overview of existing interdisciplinary research fields related to ICT for Sustainability, including Environmental Informatics, Computational Sustainability, Sustainable HCI, and Green ICT; introduces a conceptual framework to structure the effects of ICT on sustaina...

To address the “grand challenge” of biosphere sustainability, it is imperative that we examine the assumptions and philosophies underlying Information Systems sustainability research and expand research approaches. Despite calls for transdisciplinary research and recognition that addressing sustainability will require multiple perspectives, a review of the IS sustainability literature finds tha...

We have witnessed a large increase in the number of publications on sustainability challenges over the past decade. One important characteristic of the research is with the wide variety of actors that can make use of the results. Sustainability knowledge is often not only relevant for those in academia or policy-making circles, but it can also be useful for decision-makers in a diversity of soc...