Designing sustainable ICT platforms

Abstract

The sustainability of ICT platforms is becoming increasingly important with a potential explosion of negative social and environmental impacts of new technologies. To analyse such impact, several frameworks exist; however, SuSAF (Sustainability Awareness Framework) is the most widely applied. This paper reports on a multiple case study on the use of the SuSAF to evaluate existing ICT platforms as a basis for design suggestions for future versions of the platforms in a more sustainable direction. The main results of the paper include design suggestions for the further development of ICT platforms, which illustrate the applicability of SUSAF for such analysis. Future work includes a variety of ICT platforms and applies other evaluation tools to other sustainability issues.