Workshop on Information Technology and the Environment, Washington, DC, Fall 2003

这笔赠款拟用于资助2003年秋季在华盛顿特区举办的关于信息技术与环境之间关系的讲习班。这次研讨会将由耶鲁大学林业和环境研究学院工业生态中心与伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心和国际工业生态学会联合举办，并将故意建立在最近一期《工业生态杂志》(JIE)、AE-Commerce、互联网和环境的特刊基础上。信息技术被誉为自主改善环境的来源，并被谴责为能源大王，将迫使社会开采更多煤炭。新兴的研究正开始推动专家的理解超越相反的断言。这项研究并不广为人知，它提出了新的挑战和研究需求。讲习班将以专题研究为核心，审查和更新关于以下专题的现有知识：“通过更多地使用电子服务实现无纸化对环境的影响”；电子通勤；电子商务对零售业的影响；通过因特网和软件代理商促进绿色市场的机会；通过产品标签改进产品管理和回收的机会；以及利用新兴无线技术从分布式信息系统获得更好的环境情报。讲习班将提供一种手段，以继续和更新由《新闻联播》特刊推动的工作。更广泛地说，研讨会将评估和扩展对IT和环境的新理解。它还将把研究人员和主要资助机构聚集在一起，讨论和制定一套有针对性的研究优先事项。演讲将被录制下来，并用于准备在线学习模块。《中国日报》特刊将在网上发售。将在研讨会的基础上编写一份关于研究优先事项的简短论文。

This grant proposes to fund a workshop in Washington, D.C. in Fall 2003 on the relationships between information technology and the environment. The workshop will be convened by the Center for Industrial Ecology at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in association with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the International Society for Industrial Ecology and will deliberately build on a recent special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE), AE-commerce, The Internet and the Environment.Information technology has been heralded as source of autonomous environmental improvement and decried as an energy hog that will force society to Adig more coal. Emerging research is beginning to move expert understanding beyond opposing assertions. That research is not widely known and it poses new challenges and research needs. Using the research from the special issue as a nucleus, the workshop will examine and update current knowledge of topics such as the environmental implications of Adematerialization" through increased use of electronic services; telecommuting; e-commerce's impact on retailing; opportunities for catalyzing green markets via the Internet and software agents; opportunities for improved product management and recovery through product tagging; and better environmental intelligence from distributed information systems using emerging wireless technologies. The workshop will provide a means of continuing and updating the work catalyzed by the special issue of the JIE. More broadly, the workshop will assess and extend the emerging understanding of IT and the environment. It will also bring together the researchers and key funding agencies to discuss and develop a set of targeted research priorities. Presentations will be videotaped and used to prepare an on-line learning module. The special issue of the JIE will be made available on-line. A short paper on research priorities will be produced based on the workshop.