Slow Tech and ICT A Responsible, Sustainable and Ethical Approach

This book makes an important contribution to the recent evolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that are human-centred and socially desirable, environmentally sustainable, and ethically acceptable. It introduces the concept of moral, equitable and environmental limits in the ICT domain and proposes a Slow Tech approach to face the challenges of these limits, laying out a set of principles that can be applied in real-life business settings. With the launch of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the growing interest in the circular economy, Slow Tech and ICT - A Responsible, Sustainable and Ethical Approach is a timely tool for forward-thinking businesses.

Norberto Patrignani is Associate Lecturer of Computer Ethics at Politecnico di Torino and of ICT & Information Society at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, ethics expert to the European Commission, and Scientific Advisor to the Loccioni Group, Ancona, Italy. He is the Italian representative to IFIP’s Technical Committee on Computers and Society.

Diane Whitehouse is a founding partner of The Castlegate Consultancy, which concentrates on research, policy, and deployment in digital health, and an eHealth policy consultant at European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL), Belgium. She is co-Chair of the International Federation for Information Processing’s (IFIP) domain committee on health informatics. In 2017, she was awarded HIMSS Europe’s eHealth Leadership Award.