The telecentre movement is gaining momentum in the developing world as governments and donor agencies turn their attention to the digital divide. Telecentres are seen as community resources that offer access to information and communication technologies for inducing development among marginalised populations with little hope of otherwise participating in the benefits of the information revoluti...

Although the refinement of laboresque technologies that save farm labor continues, its boom (in terms of sheer number of machines) passed during the quarter-century lifetime of Technology in Society. Instead, landesque technology, which spares land, holds the spotlight. Landesque is exemplified by high-yielding varieties, the Green Revolution, and genetically modified organisms. The contributio...

At this critical historical juncture of environmental degradation, awareness of needed cultural change, and an emerging sustainability movement, attention to “reenchantment”—the phenomena of sensory, emotional, and nonrational ways of connecting with the earth’s living systems—strengthens our professional understanding as educators as well as our ability to contribute to institutional change. R...

This study injects sustainability into competitiveness to inform policy making and planning for contemporary urban development. This is built upon the recent advancement in the scholarship on urban competitiveness that demonstrates a clear deviation from an economic-centric approach to incorporate multiple dimensions of a city’s progress. This study has an explicit concern for environmental sus...

This paper elaborates on a sustainability model for Language Resources, both at a descriptive and analytical level. The first part, devoted to the descriptive model, elaborates on the definition of this concept both from a general point of view and from the Human Language Technology and Language Resources perspective. The paper also intends to list an exhaustive number of factors that have an i...

It is surprising that although ‘e-business’ and ‘sustainability’ are the two current major global trends but none of the e-business modelling ideas covers the sustainability aspects of the business. Environmental value requirement is one of the three pillars of sustainability concept that must be fulfilled to achieve a fully sustainable e-business model. A little literature is available on ‘sus...

A growing number of consumers are concerned with the impacts of consumption choices. Local food supply chains are increasingly being discussed for their potential to overcome the impacts of global and more industrialized chains. However, opposition between local and global food systems is being questioned and distinctions are ambiguous. Can sustainability performance be assessed in relation to ...