IEEE Knowledge Café: Knowledge Sharing for Sustainable Development
IEEE
Session 348
Open to all - Light lunch will be served.
This Knowledge Cafe is inspired by IEEE’s Planet Positive 2030 work Strong Sustainability by Design and a future vision for knowledge, best practices, expertise, data, and tools sharing on a Sustainability Commons. Sustainability Commons, inspired by the Creative Commons, represents a collaborative approach to managing shared resources and promoting sustainable development. As we navigate the challenges of a rapidly changing world, understanding the concept of a Sustainability Commons becomes increasingly important. This Knowledge Cafe, grounded in the WSIS Forum process and spirit of multistakeholder discussions, will explore the concept of Sustainability Commons, examining what they are, what is needed to establish and maintain them, and the potential impact they can have on society and the environment–in short, how they can help contribute to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
The open and interactive discussion at the Knowledge Cafe will be set around a future state where the Sustainability Commons is now a go-to-platform, a digital knowledge commons, for Climate and Sustainability Technology, including regenerative design and circular economy considerations. The Sustainability Commons will foster collaboration and cooperation between various stakeholders. It will always be up-to-date thanks to an engaged contributors' base and is easily accessible by stakeholders throughout the world, facilitating discovery and adoptions of climate and sustainability solutions and enabling action decisions. In this state, content is easily verifiable, and information about its quality is well captured–helping make the content trustworthy. People have access to valued, contextualized sustainability knowledge that is easily understood, can be trusted and may be adopted to help enable a planet to get to net-zero and thrive over the long term.
At the Knowledge Cafe, participants will engage in discussions to explore how we were able to reach this future state—what made it possible for the sustainability commons to become a platform for dialogue, exchange of ideas and collaborative learning. They will be able to share their insights, experiences and thoughts, and have the opportunity to bring forth recommendations and ideas that can help initiate building a sustainability commons initiative.
The Knowledge Cafe table topics aim to help facilitate discussions, knowledge sharing and collaborative problem-solving among the participants and to create a deeper understanding of Sustainability Commons.
Join us as together we explore innovative approaches to creating and nurturing Sustainability Commons that contribute to the well being of people and the planet.
Mr Lamanauskas is invited to make opening remarks.
Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a digital storage analyst and business and technology consultant. He has more than 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions at several companies. Dr. Coughlin has many publications and six patents. He is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, which is now in its second edition with Springer. Tom is a regular storage and memory contributor for forbes.com and media and entertainment organizations. Coughlin Associates consults and publishes books and market and technology reports, including The Media and Entertainment Storage Report and an Emerging Memory Report, and puts on digital storage-oriented events. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, Past-President of IEEE-USA, Past Director of IEEE Region 6, Past Chair of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section, and Past Chair of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley. He is also active with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (SMPTE).
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Maike Luiken, PhD, SMIEEE, IEEE-HKN, chairs Planet Positive 2030 – an initiative of the IEEE Standards Association – as well as the P7800 Standards Working Group: Recommended Practice for Addressing Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship and Climate Change Challenges in Professional Practice. She served as the IEEE Vice President, Member & Geographic Activities, in 2021 and as President of IEEE Canada during 2018 and 2019 and, in 2018, as Chair, Policy Track, IEEE Internet Initiative. Maike has been for more than 15 years a very strong supporter of sustainable development. She has experience in the public and private sectors in Canada and has worked in the USA and Germany. She has also more than 20 years experience serving on Boards of Directors of local, regional, and global organizations. Maike is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
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C4. Capacity building
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C6. Enabling environment
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C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life — E-environment
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Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
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Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
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Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
