Development of a Toolbox on Sustainable ICT across Industry and Academia: The goforIT project

Abstract

ICT plays an important role in assuring both environmental, economic, individual, technical and social sustainability. While sustainability is commonly understood at the general level, it was realized at a joint academia-industry panel at the Norwegian ICT conference in November 2019 that ICT-professionals did not necessarily know how they work to develop sustainable solutions. This also applied at the time to academia: Lecturers and those responsible for study programs did not know what should be taught in the different subjects. On this background goforIT (Gønn omstilling for IT-bransjen) was established in February 2020 by a small group of companies and universities. The development and use of the Sustainability Competence Toolkit is one of the major undertakings of goforIT and is expected to be important both for practice and academia. Developing the toolkit is guided by ADR - action design research and service design methodology. , The main results presented in this paper is results from service design within this frame and the current results in a sustainability toolbox. In future work we will investigate how this toolbox is developed through use, supporting the coordinated knowledge development in the area of sustainable ICT in academia and industry.