Humanising digital life: Reducing emissions while enhancing value-adding human processes
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Highlights:
• Information technology can reduce CO2 emissions.
• Digitalisation has many negative effects, and it dehumanises work and life.
• Digitalisation should focus on removing non-value added activities from human life.
• A holistic understanding of human processes helps in maintaining their core value.
• Research should focus on human processes, virtual experiences, ethics and education.
摘要
•Information technology can reduce CO2 emissions.•Digitalisation has many negative effects, and it dehumanises work and life.•Digitalisation should focus on removing non-value added activities from human life.•A holistic understanding of human processes helps in maintaining their core value.•Research should focus on human processes, virtual experiences, ethics and education.
论文关键词:Carbon emissions,COP26,Human processes,Humanising digital life,Value proposition
论文评审过程:Received 29 October 2021, Revised 29 October 2021, Accepted 29 October 2021, Available online 6 November 2021, Version of Record 1 February 2022.
论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102443