Project II

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The second subproject will focus on Digital Technology and

Multidimensional Sustainability in order to derive guidelines for

sustainable digital development. In particular the subproject will elucidate and qualify the relationship between digital and eco-

environmental sustainability. Our current economic system and prospected economic future is not only heavily dependent on

Information Technology (IT), but unthinkable without a powerful and

comprehensive digital IT infrastructure. Furthermore, digital

infrastructure constantly needs to be upgraded in terms of hardware

and software in order to be sustainable (digital sustainability).

However, it is an unassailable ontological fact that digital ecosystems

ultimately depend on our natural ecosystems. Therefore, the

subproject will propose ethical guidelines for planning,

implementation, and maintenance of digital sustainable infrastructure

that inevitably needs to operate within the ontological framework of

eco-environmental sustainable development.

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