2. Network+ Overview
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One of four £1.5m network+ funded by the RCUK
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Sustainable Society
IT as Utility
New Economic Models
Established to identify the “Grand Challenges” for
research related to digital technologies and the
creation of a Sustainable Society
Includes the sustainability of ICT usage within
society
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/digital-economylab/partnernetworks/sustainablesocietynetwork
3. Awards & Events
Minimum
of 10 Pilot studies at a value of
up to £50,000 each
Research Probes to test breakthrough
research ideas
Secondments
academia
to and from industry and
4. Pilot Studies - Qiuhua
Aim
is to evaluate the trends of OSNs
during a flood event and develop a new
OSN based flood prediction and risk
management system
Explore a new approach by combining
OSNs and traditional flood modeling for
flood risk management.
5. Pilot Studies - Light
The urban area of Tulse Hill in South London is
going through rapid socio-technical change as
part of local action research to increase residents’
social and material assets. Three novel digital
sharing tools are being deployed across 800
households to inspire more sustainable community
practices, to stretch resources and generate
alternative social structures. Our project is an
invited collaboration to follow developments in
the early stages of implementation, which we wish
to use as the basis for devising a design framework
for sharing technologies
6. Challenge Fellowship - Harries
This feasibility study will explore how interactive,
consumer-relevant feedback can enhance
engagement, increase awareness of consumption
patterns, change attitudes, stimulate real-world
behaviour change and, as a result, generate
more sustainable patterns of usage. Combining
expertise from computer science and social
science, it will develop and evaluate a new
variety of feedback system; using the case study
of domestic electricity consumption to explore
and evaluate the ways in which visualisation and
interactivity can transform the impact of digitally
delivered feedback.
8. Scaling the Rural Enterprise
PI: Dr Catherine Mulligan, Imperial College,
London
Joint project between UK and India
Rural UK and Foothill of the Himalayas
Using mobile technologies to help create
appropriate economies of scale to “bridge the
urban rural divide”
UK Team from: Imperial College, Swansea
University and University of Nottingham
EP/J000604
9. Overview
Our economy is built on scale – why?
Costs, accumulation of capital, efficiency,
effectiveness
Really it is an outcome of 250 years of capitalism
Externalities
Environment..?
Humans..?
Digital Technologies so far have been used to
streamline and improve the efficiencies of supply
chains:
Have become increasingly global
Have been applied to food, clothes, furniture,
basically everything except… ?
Catastrophic impacts on… food, clothes,
environment, employees…
10. End to End Lightweight Business Process Management
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Demand and Supply Management at a ‘local’ (small scale) level
JiTM for connecting rural and urban suppliers
Smoothing of supply chain processes for small scale suppliers
No supplier or buyer lock-in
Free access
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11. Get in Touch
Email:
c.mulligan@imperial.ac.uk
@SustainableSoci
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