The workshop will ask how, at a time when we need to address climate change and the ecological crises urgently, we can work together as a community to make sustainability a core value of our industry globally.
Facilitated by Tom Greenwood (UK) and Gauthier Roussilhe (France), we will ask people to share experiences of how sustainability is currently considered in the digital sector in their country, what has been successful in pushing it on the top of the agenda and what the key barriers have been.
Together as a group, we will compare experiences from around the world and form a shared understanding of how to move forward, with a set of practical solutions to suggest to the wider web community.
The highlights of the discussion and suggested solutions will then be published following the event for others to learn from and build on.
Following the session, the highlights and the proposed solutions will be published online for others in the industry to learn from. We will also encourage attendees to work together after the session and facilitate connections.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:As a discussion, this topic could work with a variety of numbers but if the group is larger, then we may form breakout rooms to ensure that everyone has a voice and that ideas can then be presented back to the wider group.
What is the goal and/or outcome of your session?:To accelerate the adoption of sustainable principles within the digital sector. It is hoped that this can be achieved by cross-pollinating ideas from different countries and skillsets and publishing potential solutions that are formed through the dicussion.
Tom Greenwood is the co-founder of B Corp web agency Wholegrain Digital and author of Sustainable Web Design, from A Book Apart. He loves design, WordPress, sustainability & natural health.