PHP Hampshire June 2022 - How to make digital technologies more sustainable

Our June meetup. This is a free event, all welcome to join!

This meetup will be via Zoom, however we are looking to bring back hybrid events.
You can download Zoom from here https://zoom.us/download

You can join the meeting on the day with the link provided by the meetup event.

We will send the passcode to everyone before the event begins.

Agenda:

19:00 Join and welcome messages
19:15 How to make digital technologies more sustainable by Hannah Smith

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Did you know that digital services are thought to produce more carbon emissions than the aviation industry? And if the internet was a country it would be the seventh biggest polluter in the world. It's shocking, isn’t it!? The cloud isn’t as fluffy and harmless as we’re led to believe... Digital technologies provide wonderful opportunities to reach and engage others, often in ways that aren’t possible using offline methods. But digital does have significant hidden environmental costs, which many in the tech industry aren’t conscious of. In this talk, we’ll discuss how digital technologies cause pollution and how technologists can take action to improve the sustainability of the tech they build, manage and use. We’ll also go beyond digital carbon emissions and get into some of the deeper issues around sustainability and climate justice.

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Hannah is a freelance sustainable web consultant living in Exmoor, with a background in Computer Science. She’s previously worked as a freelance WordPress developer specialising in working with SMEs, and also for the Environment Agency, where she managed large business change projects. She’s now co-founder of Green Tech South West, founder of the #LetsGreenTheWeb campaign run with ClimateAction.tech, and a Green Web Foundation fellow. Aside from helping other technologists to take action on climate change, she also likes dogs, plants and snow sports.

Are you interested in talking at our next meetup? Please get in touch by emailing Spectrum IT at admin@spectrumit.co.uk!

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Spectrum IT - Spectrum IT Recruitment is a collaboration of over 10 years recruitment experience, providing recruitment services and consultancy to the IT sector UK wide.