The clean side of Slow Tech: An overview

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-12

  Patrignani, Norberto ^a,b   Whitehouse, Diane ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Castlegate Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clean ICT; Future ethics; Green IT; ICT sustainability; Slow Tech

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923673352     PISSN: 1477996X     EISSN: 17588871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JICES-10-2014-0057     Document Type: Article

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