ULiège is committed to a Responsible Digital Future: ethical, sustainable and beneficial for all!
Digital technology is an integral part of our daily lives, but its growing use raises major environmental, ethical and social issues. For example, from a purely ecological point of view, in 10 years, digital energy consumption has multiplied by 3, and digital generates a share of global CO₂ emissions equivalent to that of automobile traffic!
This digital "carbon" footprint could moreover triple by 2050 (if the digital transition takes the form of widespread digitization) - but could also be halved if we turned towards/chose a sober digital trajectory!
In addition to pollution, over-consumption of energy and electronic waste, indiscriminate digitization carries many other risks, including digital social fractures and negative impacts on our daily functioning and our health, both physical and mental...
Adopting a responsible digital approach will have many advantages for us all: find out more at FAQ on digital responsability!
Our decade is a pivotal moment in the evolution of our societies, with its fundamental transformations, shifts and ruptures, includingin the digital domain. ULiège has taken up the challenge of responsible digital technology, orientingitsposture andits strategies around the ongoing transitions.
Signed by ULiège in November 2022, this charter aims to promote a more inclusive, ethical and environmentally-friendly digital environment. This approach is followed by nearly 400 signatory organizations in six European countries.
As part of ULiège's "Numérique Responsable" initiative, staff members were invited in November 2024 to a training session aimed at raising awareness of the ecological and social challenges of digital technology. Find here the recording of this session!
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Keeping your electronic devices longer, slightly reducing the quality of your streams, limiting your cloud storage, ... these are simple gestures that have a significant impact on your digital consumption.
A publication resulting from a year's research on Sustainable IT, written by researcher Sophie Pirotton and available on the Digital Lab website.
L’ULiège s’engage pour un numérique éthique et durable via une stratégie de sobriété portée par un comité piloté par Félix Scholtes. Objectifs : réduire l’impact environnemental, favoriser l’autonomie et former à un usage raisonné du digital.
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This online course explores the concepts of sustainable development and the environmental and societal impacts of digital technologies.
The University of Liège signed the Responsible Digital Charter on November 23, 2022 during the Belgian Institute for Sustainable IT (ISIT-BE) ceremony organized at the Solvay Business School in Brussels.
