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New project about work in sustainable cities of the future

In future cities mobile communication technologies and broadband internet will be fully implemented. This opens up opportunities for organizing work in a more sustainable way. Employees can pursue their work at home, at office or in other settings such as telecottages, company hotels or latte offices. Collaborative tools like videoconferences, tele-presence, social media or Google Wave can potentially decrease the need for travel. The new Centre project "Telecommunicators’ work in the sustainable city" aims to understand and describe how tomorrow's work will be organized.

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Guidelines for a Sustainable Internet

February 5, 2010

A group within the KTH School of Computer Science and Communications is organizer of a seminar series on communications. At the first seminar on February 4 Jorge Zapico from the Centre for Sustainable Communications suggested a number of “Guidelines for a Sustainable Internet”.

Integrating social aspects into life cycle assessment

December 11, 2009

Social LCA is a rapidly expanding research field. A new report by the Centre of Sustainable Communications explores the usability of social LCA for the ICT sector.

The environmental impact of transcontinental data traffic

November 27, 2009

Submarine cables carry over 97 percent of transcontinental voice and data traffic. The high capacity and bandwidth of fibre optic cables make it possible to transfer large amounts of data around the globe almost instantaneously. A new study by Craig Donovan takes a look at the environmental impact of submarine cables from a life cycle perspective.