A practical guide to Sustainable IT available free of charge
HEC Liège's Digital Lab and S'Lab have just published a groundbreaking practical guide for companies and organizations wishing to reconcile digital transformation and sustainable development.
The guide is the fruit of a year-long research project led by researcher Sophie Pirotton with the support of the Walloon Region as part of the Digital Wallonia strategy, and co-funded by nine partner companies and organizations from a variety of sectors.
A collaborative format
The originality of the approach lies in its strong co-construction: the partners actively participated in the orientation of the project by formulating the questions that structured the workshops, and ultimately, the content of the guide. Throughout the year, four collaborative workshops, organized with the Institut Belge du Numérique Responsable (ISIT-BE), enabled exchanges between the partners, as well as with invited experts.
A practical approach
Organized into four chapters - Green IT, Human IT, IT for Green and IT for Human - the guide summarizes the main findings of these discussions. It provides companies with concrete guidelines for aligning digital transition and sustainability, and offers practical answers to the needs expressed by our partners.
With this publication, the initiators of the project - Digital Lab and S'Lab - aim to strengthen the link between academic research and the business world, by providing organizations with a directly operational tool for advancing their responsible digital initiatives.
A doctorate in progress
Following this project, most of the partners decided to continue the adventure by co-financing a doctoral thesis on the same subject. Would you like to find out more about the consortium research support formula? Contact digitallab@uliege.be
The practical guide can be downloaded free of charge from the "Publications" page of the Digital Lab website.
You would like to understand in just twenty minutes what Sustainable IT is? Check out the episode of the "Échos Numériques" podcast dedicated to this topic on Spotify and Apple Podcasts !
