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CANDISE: Change-Oriented Assessments for Net-Zero Digital Services

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SUMMARY

Posted on April 25, 2024April 30, 2024 by csxds

We are hiring! Open positions for postdoctoral researcher and a fully-funded PhD
stipend available! Contact daniel.schien@bristol.ac.uk.

We identify the underlying drivers of environmental impact of digital media and
how to influence them.

Current approaches to reducing the carbon footprint from computer hardware and
software tend to take a static view of media technology based on stocks of
devices or modelling efficiency of classes of devices (e.g. network efficiency).

This perspective prioritises control over influence. For example, this view
focuses on the near-term effects from more efficient software and hardware.

When complementing the short-term direct control with a view on the longer-term
effects, then strategies to reduce the sector’s footprint become more effective;
for example, understanding the role of changing patterns of media consumption,
the effects of greening of electricity supply or the potential from capping
carbon footprints for devices and software.

This project aims to create the missing causal understanding and investigate a
framework for anticipating the systemic, long-term environmental impact from
changes to the design, provision, and use of digital media services and provide
a step-improvement to our ability to pursue Net-Zero goals. Our project team
represents the entire vertical stack of technologies that form the ICT product
system, from user-facing digital services to network and datacentre operators.
We have the experience and capacity to investigate ways to reason about and
assess the longer-term carbon impact from decisions taken by users, software
providers, and infrastructure operators

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