WorkshopsICT4S 2023

The workshops at ICT4S 2023 look to facilitate the exchange of new ideas and directions in all areas related to sustainability and digital technology. A variety of formats are welcome and will be considered, ranging from traditional research paper presentations to interactive and participatory sessions. Given the urgency of the climate crisis we invite proposals that cover controversial viewpoints, national and global public policy interventions, emerging technology drivers or transformative ideas aimed at changing basic assumptions. The workshops will be held on Monday June 5, 2023, and Friday June 9, 2023.

Call for Workshops

At ICT4S 2023 we are facilitating two kinds of workshop:

1) Formal Workshops - workshops looking to establish annual gatherings and publish proceedings associated with topics covered by ICT4S. We expect to publish a proceedings volume including all accepted workshop papers in an open access archive (e.g., arXiv’s Computing Research Repository, CEUR). These workshops are expected to include a full peer review process for workshop submissions (facilitated by the workshop organisers).

2) Community Workshops - workshops for community building and passionate discussion in emerging topics relating to ICT4S. These workshops may also draw in a wider audience and we welcome proposals from community, business and local government that might help start a dialogue to develop solutions.

We invite workshop proposals of traditional or unconventional formats for evening, half-day, or full-day workshops. Workshops are to be held on Monday, June 5, and Friday, June 9, 2023. Other slots during the main conference period may also be available.

Formal Workshops

Formal workshop proposals should be between 4-6 pages long and include:

• Title
• Background - rationale for the workshop, including the aims and objectives
• Organisers - short backgrounds/bios, including experience in organising workshops or similar events
• Type of workshop - full-day, half-day, or evening and expected number of participants
• Pre-workshop plans - details on recruitment for the workshop, e.g., the target audience communities, strategy for communication with these communities.
• Workshop Structure/Activities - the workshop structure in detail, including activities and resources required.
• Post-workshop plans - plans for the creation of tangible outcomes or outputs, and follow-up with attendees/ICT4S
• Program committee (PC) proposal - this should include the names, contact details, and affiliations of potential members of the PC.
• Type of papers
• Submission criteria for authors - criteria by which submissions to the workshop will be evaluated
• Call for Participation (CfP) - a 250 word CfP that will be posted on the ICT4S website
• References

Community Workshops

Community workshop proposals should be between 2-4 pages long and include:

• Title
• Background - rationale for the workshop, including the aims and objectives
• Organisers - short backgrounds/bios, including experience in organising workshops or similar events, contact details
• Type of workshop - full-day, half-day, or evening and expected number of participants
• Pre-workshop plans - details on recruitment for the workshop, e.g. the target audience communities, strategy for communication with these communities,
• Workshop Structure/Activities - the workshop structure in detail, including activities, speakers, and resources required.
• Call for Participation (CfP) - a 250 word CfP that will be posted on the ICT4S website
• References

Submission Guidelines

Workshop proposal should be submitted electronically via EasyChair. Select “[ICT4S’23] Workshops". All workshop proposal submissions should be submitted in IEEE conference proceedings format.

Potential Topics of Interest

Possible workshop topics include (but are not limited to) sustainability and ICT in the context of the following:

• Transport and logistics
• Software Engineering
• Behavioural and societal change
• Energy-efficient and energy-aware software engineering
• Infrastructure management and resilience, smart grids
• Hardware obsolescence, e-waste and material life cycles
• Decision support and policy making
• Education
• Smart cities, buildings, homes and offices
• Data centres and high-performance computing
• Social movements, grassroots communities and organisations

Further details

All workshops can be provided with the following resources: catering (coffee breaks and lunch), conference materials, WIFI, white board with markers, projector/screen, laptop (upon request), and a room. Formal workshop organisers are expected to set up and manage their own submission and review processes. Furthermore, it is strongly recommended that workshop organizers set up websites and social media accounts to help publicize the event.

Designing the Sound of Sustainability - Community workshop

This workshop will explore the use of sound as a tool to explore sustainability data – what is the sound of home electricity use? Flight emissions? Energy mix? By converting otherwise abstract or impenetrable data into audio using sonification techniques, can we open up new methods of experiencing sustainability issues, and perhaps narrow the knowledge- action gap? We will introduce different techniques for using sound in this way, and invite participants to create their own sonifications. Finally, participants will develop frameworks for applying advanced sonifications to their own research, and these will be taken forward to an audio-focused workshop in the near future to be put into practice. We envisage this workshop to be an opportunity for participants to learn about what sound can bring to sustainability discussions, as well as be a part of a longer term project applying sustainability research data to sound in novel ways. The concepts that we develop together will inform the running of another workshop for researchers in audio soon after ICT4S, and a third session is planned to bring together any participants who wish to follow the work long term.

Organizers:

Yann Seznec
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Contact: yannse@kth.se

Sandra Pauletto 
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Contact: pauletto@kth.se

Elina Eriksson
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Contact: elina@kth.se

Radical Rapid Prototyping for ICT4S - Community workshop

Artwork has the ability to bring people from diverse backgrounds together to encounter, discuss and address the pressing challenges of our ages. At this year’s ICT4S, the art collective disnovation.org is very present, as featured in Wednesday evening’s program and with a continuous presence in the lobby with a poster action through the whole conference. This workshop will be an opportunity to work closer with the artists, exploring methods for generating innovative transdisciplinary approaches to complex issues such as climate change and energy transition. Participants can bring their own pet ideas, current preoccupations and open questions, especially ones provoked by presentations at ICT4S 2023. Together, we will synthesize key problems and then break into groups to sketch out creative approaches to addressing these problems.
The workshop goal is on one hand to represent, through art practice, sustainability issues, and challenges and on the other hand to understand challenges in new ways through collaborating artistically. Outputs will include sketches, mind-maps and other aesthetic approaches to the issues that we will work on together, as well as the experience of working speculatively in new ways, towards future transdisciplinary collaboration and the development of the participants’ pedagogical and communication methods.

Organizers:

Nicolas Maigret 
    Disnovation.org
    Contact: nicolasmaigret@gmail.com
    
Baruch Gottlieb
    Disnovation.org
    Contact: b.e.gottlieb@gmail.com

Sustainability trade-offs in AI – Barriers and enablers to more “sustainable AI” - Community workshop

The development and use of “Artificial Intelligence” systems has diverse impacts on social and environmental sustainability. While social issues such as the fairness of AI systems have been the focus of much public debate, the direct and indirect adverse environmental impacts (resource and energy use; increases in consumption induced by AI) have received less attention. To address multiple sustainability challenges in software and AI systems several sustainability frameworks have been developed. However, these frameworks seem to be known and applied by only a minority of software practitioners. With this workshop we explore several reasons why this might be the case by discussing with the participants:

• how sustainability frameworks can work in practice in the context of AI systems development (e.g., how are indirect environmental impacts being measured and what are the system boundaries?),
• who should be responsible for implementing the suggested frameworks (programmers, managers, researchers?),
• why frameworks should be used (particularly in the absence of an obligation to do so),
• how trade-offs between social, environmental and economic goals in frameworks can be addressed.

Main objectives of workshop: connect actors, revisit existing sustainability frameworks, discuss challenges and opportunities related to their practical implementation, identify next steps for collaboration Number of participants: 15-20

Organizers:

Stefanie Kunkel
    IAAS Postdam
    Contact: stefanie.kunkel@iass-potsdam.de

Federica Lucivero
    Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford
    Contact: federica.lucivero@ethox.ox.ac.uk
    
Gabrielle Samuel
    King’s College London
    Contact: gabrielle.samuel@kcl.ac.uk

Lucas Somavilla
    Responsible Technology institute, University of Oxford
    Contact: lucas.somavilla@cs.ox.ac.uk

Carolyn Ten Holter
    Responsible Technology institute, University of Oxford
    Contact: carolyn.ten.noiter@cs.ox.ac.uk

Assessing the indirect effects of ICT – a review of some existing methodologies and frameworks and way forward - Community workshop

Background:

The interest for the indirect effects of ICT – in particular their positive effects whether referred to as enabling effects, abatements, avoided emissions or second and higher order effects – has perhaps never been more widespread. The methodological basis for these claims, however, is often underdeveloped or problematic, and indirect negative effects are often ignored.

Content:

We thus invite researchers, practitioners and policy makers to a day where we get up to date with the methodologies and frameworks that have been published since last ICT4S conference (by actors such as the International Telecommunication Union, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the European Green Digital Coalition and the Mission Innovation Framework), review their content to provide feedback based on our collective experience and engage in discussions on specific methodological considerations.

We will also reserve a slot for ideation regarding what could be done to optimize ICT towards positive impacts while suppressing any negative impacts.

We hope this will be an opportunity to further advance the understanding of this complex topic and provide guidance for way forward.

Inputs:

Participants are welcome to contribute analyses or proposals related to specific methodological aspects as input for the discussions. Such inputs could either be based on theoretical and conceptual analysis of challenges and solutions, on practical experiences from applying these or similar methodologies or refer to associated policy challenges. Any input will be evaluated with respect to relevance, but no formal peer review will be performed. Contributors may be asked to present at the workshop.

Organizers:

Pernilla Bergmark
    Ericsson Research, Ericsson
    Contact: pernilla.bergmark@ericsson.com

Mattias Höjer
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Contact: hojer@kth.se

Reid Lifset
    University of Yale
    Contact: reid.lifset@yale.edu

Vlad Coroamă
    Technische Universitat Berlin
    Contact: coroama@tu-berlin.de

Towards a sustainable energy-aware Information and Communication Technology - Formal workshop

Significant changes in social behavior and consumer demand has triggered exponential growth in video consumption, with video now accounting for more than 82% of online data traffic. This rapid growth will continue in the coming years requiring massive energy to support the production, the delivery and the end-user consumption. This is not at all sustainable with respect to the amount of energy required and the ecological emergency we have to face.

Given the complexity of the challenges, all actors, going from the video production to the final video consumption by the end-users, have to promote, support and develop initiatives that would contribute to the energy consumption reduction. This full-day workshop will not only present the magnitude of the energy consumption problem but will also elaborate on key initiatives for reducing the energy consumption.

The objectives of the proposed workshop are (i) to raise industrial and public awareness for a sustainable information and communication technology (ICT), (ii) to monitor and evaluate the energy consumption all along the video chain, (iii) to introduce new energy-aware technologies, (iv) to present standardization activities. For each objective, at least one presentation will be planned. Presentations should last between 30 and 40 minutes. We expect people from academia, industry, and local governments. The one-page long abstracts and presentation slides will be published on the website of the workshop.

Organizers:

Olivier Le Meur
    InterDigital
    Contact: olivier.lemer@interdigital.com

Christian Herglotz
    Friedrich-Alexander University
    Contact: christian.herglotz@fau.de

ICT4SEdu 2023: Fifth International Workshop on ICT for Sustainable Education - Formal workshop

Since sustainability is not yet a mainstream subject within computing education, this workshop aims to provide a forum for cross-domain interaction by bringing together members of ICT4S community to share perspectives and present findings relevant to research and practice in education. In addition, the workshop aims to provide a platform for participants to collaboratively work on expanding the body of knowledge in sustainability education and to jump-start new collaborations through the live creation of teams that commit to working together on concrete topics. A significant portion of the workshop is devoted to focused interaction among the participants with the goal of generating a research agenda to improve processes and practices, tools, techniques, and methods regarding the sustainability education in computing. The Workshop Objectives are:

• Working sessions to discuss topics;
• Provision of a platform for educators, researchers, and practitioners to present their current work and trigger discussion;
• Continued collaboration on the previously initiated topics (e.g., Karlskrona Manifesto on Sustainability Design);
• Support for group work and discussion on newly favored topics;
• Kickstart new collaborations between the workshop participants;
• Dissemination of the workshop ideas and results at the main conference.

We are open to the submission of contributions by March 13th and will publish within the joint CEUR ICT4S workshop proceedings. Check our website https://ict4sedu.wordpress.com and reach out to us with questions.

Organizers:

Elina Eriksson
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Contact: elina@kth.se

Birgit Penzenstadler Chalmers 
    University of Technology
    Contact: birgitp@chalmers

Anne-Kathrin Peters
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Contact: akpeters@kth.se

Colin C. Venters
    Centre for Sustainable Software Engineering
    Contact: c.venters@hud.ac.uk

Green Software and Human Actors: design, code, and behavior - Community workshop

Achieving the ambitious goals for sustainability requires collaboration between different research disciplines and domains, as the impact of technological-only optimizations slows down. In this community workshop, we aim to build bridges between green software and green IT, UX/UI design, and behavioral studies. The workshop will bring communities together to share ideas and design, build and sustain the next generation of sustainable computing, involving human actors (such as end users, developers, and deciders).

This full-day workshop aims at building community. We expect people from academia, industry, and local governments. Two 30-minute presentations from academics will take place in the morning on software energy efficiency, and on HCI and climate change, followed by a 60-minute keynote. After 2-minute self-introductions from all the participants, selected and voluntary 10-minute presentations will take place during 1 hour. Then, discussion will take place in the afternoon about required skills to answer major research questions: (1) how to guide user interface designers for energy-efficient interaction? (2) how to assist end users for energy-efficient interaction? And (3) how to provide data to end users for energy-efficient digital behavior?

Proposals for 10-minute presentations will be submitted on EasyChair. An abstract up to 500 words will depict speakers’ presentation. Abstracts and presentation slides will be published on the website of the workshop.

Organizers:

Adel Noureddine
    University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour
    Contact: adel.noureddine@univ-pau.fr

Guillaume Rivière
    ESTIA Institute of Technology
    Contact: g.riviere@estia.fr