In Germany this year the market for smartphones grows faster than expected. Total revenues for 2015 increase by 7 per cent to 9.1 billion Euro (bitkom.org, 10.08.2015)
The total energy consumption of ICT is growing rapidly. Reduction of energy consumption is fine, but efficiency strategies alone have not led to a more sustainable situation. The following formula has been proposed for sustainable ICT
Efficiency + Sufficiency = Innovation for Sustainability (Hilty et al. 2011)
In mobile computing, the capacity of batteries in terms of energy density (energy/mass) is limited (DOI:10.5167/uzh-55640). This can be seen as an effective limitation (sufficiency), enabling more sustainable ICT innovations.
Besides energy consumption, scarce natural resources are part of every smartphone. The growing demand for mobile ICT devices results in an increase in product offerings, usually sustained through a shorter service life leading to a faster exchange of your smartphone.
Sufficiency strategies appear appealing to reach more sustainable consumption of ICT. Please share further examples of sustainable consumption of ICT, these can be driven by users, e.g. only use particular applications sundays, or driven by ICT design. I'm particularly interested in the interplay between user practices and ICT solutions for sustainability.
Are you aware of sufficiency strategies for sustainability in mobile ICT devices (like smartphones)?
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Dear Frithiof
Look here:
http://www.oecd.org/site/stitff/45983022.pdf
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May like to have a look at a reference available at
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/73794/323_ready.pdf?sequence=2
Good Luck
We discussed this issue of sufficiency in Smartphones during our eCoInnovateIT-Project Meeting. The aspect of modularity is emphasized in the phonebloks Project, so that consumers e.g. don't Need to buy a Smartphone with plenty of applications of which they may really only Need a few. This could be one Interpretation of sufficiency
"Reducing electronic waste through the development of an adaptable mobile device "
DOI:10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829871
What else could sufficiency refer to in mobile ICT devices?
Conference Paper Reducing electronic waste through the development of an adap...
Yes I agree with many answer. This is true with respect to other technologies also. You provide an OS on smartphone devices with lots of features and size and then it start crashing after six month. Customer did not get any support from vendor and left with no option but run in the market. It will be better for vendor to reduce many apps icons and add one with title as "we are fixing software problems" be it OS or apps. In my view it will be sufficiency.
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