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Let’s get more –
Social, Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Based on Data! Here’s how!
Steve Holyer Jutta Eckstein
Claudia Melo
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What?

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Sustainability
Social/People
Aiming for equity, health,
liveability
Environment/Planet
Protecting the Planet
Economic/Prosperity
Improving the lives &
prospects of everyone,
everywhere

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Software to the Rescue!?
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©
Nature.
Jones,
N.:
How
to
stop
data
centres
from
gobbling
up
the
world‘s
electricity

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©
United
Nations
University:
The
Global
E-waste
Monitor
2020
In 2019, 53.6 million metric tonnes
of electronic waste was generated
worldwide (that’s plus 21% in 5 years.)
This is an equivalent of almost 5,400
Eiffel towers.
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In 2007, we became carbon neutral and in 2017, we became
the first company of our size to match 100% of our global,
annual electricity consumption with renewable energy. […]
Now, we’re carving a path forward to decarbonize our
electricity supply completely and operate on 24/7 carbon-free
energy, everywhere, by 2030.
©
Google
White
Paper.
Moving
toward
24x7
Carbon-Free
Energy
at
Google
Data
Centers:
Progress
and
Insights

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Chef & Homeland Security
©
https://www.fedscoop.com/protest-open-source-software-
company-chef-will-let-ice-contract-expire/
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So What?
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Agile made a Promise!

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©https://www.agilealliance.org/membership
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©
agilebossanova.com

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Now What?
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Sustainability by Agile
◼ Use agile practices & mindset to increase sustainability
◼ For example:
– Use your skills for increasing sustainability
• E.g., as part of HackYourFuture, Nicole Belilos was a SM for
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Sustainability in Agile
◼ Use sustainability to guide your actions and outcomes in
agile development
◼ For example:
– Have a definition of done that verifies that the energy
consumption of your system does (at least) not increase
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Full
assessment
available
under
CC
at
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Example Report
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Change your Conversations
for
Increasing Sustainability!

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Many Thanks!
◼ Steve Holyer | @Zurcherart
◼ Claudia Melo | @claudia_melo
◼ Jutta Eckstein | @JuttaEckstein@agilealliance.social
◼ https://jeckstein.com/sustainability
◼ Assessment by
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