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Principal Investigator: Catherine Mulligan CI: John Nelson CI: Ruth Rettie
Network+ Overview • One of four £1.5m network+ funded by the RCUK
• Sustainable Society
• IT as Utility
• New Economic Models
Established to identify the “Grand Challenges” for research related to digital technologies and the creation of a Sustainable Society
Includes the sustainability of ICT usage within society
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/digital-economy-lab/partnernetworks/sustainablesocietynetwork
Awards & Events
Minimum of 10 Pilot studies at a value of
up to £50,000 each
Research Probes to test breakthrough
research ideas
Secondments to and from industry and
academia
Pilot Studies - Qiuhua
Aim is to evaluate the trends of OSNs
during a flood event and develop a new
OSN based flood prediction and risk
management system
Explore a new approach by combining
OSNs and traditional flood modeling for
flood risk management.
Pilot Studies - Light The urban area of Tulse Hill in South London is
going through rapid socio-technical change as part of local action research to increase residents’ social and material assets. Three novel digital sharing tools are being deployed across 800 households to inspire more sustainable community practices, to stretch resources and generate alternative social structures. Our project is an invited collaboration to follow developments in the early stages of implementation, which we wish to use as the basis for devising a design framework for sharing technologies
Challenge Fellowship - Harries This feasibility study will explore how interactive,
consumer-relevant feedback can enhance engagement, increase awareness of consumption patterns, change attitudes, stimulate real-world behaviour change and, as a result, generate more sustainable patterns of usage. Combining expertise from computer science and social science, it will develop and evaluate a new variety of feedback system; using the case study of domestic electricity consumption to explore and evaluate the ways in which visualisation and interactivity can transform the impact of digitally delivered feedback.
Secondments
Indian-based secondments?
PI: Dr Catherine Mulligan, Imperial College, London
Joint project between UK and India
Rural UK and Foothill of the Himalayas
Using mobile technologies to help create appropriate economies of scale to “bridge the urban rural divide”
UK Team from: Imperial College, Swansea University and University of Nottingham
EP/J000604
Scaling the Rural Enterprise
Our economy is built on scale – why?
Costs, accumulation of capital, efficiency, effectiveness
Really it is an outcome of 250 years of capitalism
Externalities
Environment..?
Humans..?
Digital Technologies so far have been used to streamline and improve the efficiencies of supply chains:
Have become increasingly global
Have been applied to food, clothes, furniture, basically everything except… ?
Catastrophic impacts on… food, clothes, environment, employees…
Overview
End to End Lightweight Business Process Management
• Demand and Supply Management at a ‘local’ (small scale) level • JiTM for connecting rural and urban suppliers • Smoothing of supply chain processes for small scale suppliers • No supplier or buyer lock-in • Free access
Supplier 1 Supplier 2 Supplier 3
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