Design Principles and Responsible Innovation for a Sustainable Digital Economy (Paris-DE)

数字技术对经济和更广泛的社会产生了变革性影响。信息通信技术（ICT）的新创新，如下一代“5G”互联网、自动化和机器人、大数据和人工智能（AI），有可能产生深远的社会影响，发展速度惊人。然而，同样的技术也会对社会产生负面影响，包括显著增加与信息通信技术相关的碳排放，从而对我们的环境造成破坏性影响。管理信息通信技术的利益和风险之间的这种二元性必须成为未来信息通信技术设计和创新的核心——确保信息通信技术能够继续为我们的社会和经济带来价值，同时防止信息通信技术创新超越地球边界。然而，目前很少考虑ICT创新中的系统性影响，并且今天的设计过程缺乏将环境可持续性嵌入ICT所需的信息和工具。这个名为Paris - de的项目将确保与ICT行业相关的碳排放符合《巴黎协定》：将气温上升限制在1.5摄氏度以内。为此，PARIS-DE项目将开发一个数字可持续性框架，系统地考虑ICT的影响，并通过两个关键概念确保设计符合巴黎的要求：i)数字经济中碳排放的证据基础；ii)以环境可持续性为目标的负责任的创新方法，同时保持ICT设计的关键方面，使社会繁荣。利用计算机科学、以人为本的设计、哲学和伦理学以及环境经济学等一系列学科视角，PARIS-DE将开发支持全球范围内ICT发展的数字工具，并将通过三个案例研究创建、展示和评估数字可持续发展框架：1)大数据和人工智能，2)自主系统，3)视频流。这些案例研究作为数字经济的代表，将允许对威胁排放上升的不同基础技术进行评估。案例研究还将涉及与信息通信技术创新的主要利益相关者（例如信息通信技术部门的设计师和开发人员）密切合作，确保框架的全面和有效。巴黎-巴黎大会最终将使信息通信技术部门能够更可持续地创新技术，并符合减缓气候变化的目标。

Digital technologies have a transformative impact in the economy and wider society. New innovations in Information Communication Technology (ICT) such as the next generation '5G' internet, automation and robotics, and big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have the potential to make a profound societal impact and the pace of development is staggering. The same technologies can though have a negative impact on society, including significantly increasing the carbon emissions related to ICT and thus creating damaging impacts on our environment. Managing this duality between ICT's benefits and risks must be at the heart of future ICT design and innovation - ensuring ICT can continue to bring value to our society and the economy, while keeping ICT innovations from exceeding planetary boundaries. However, there is currently scarce consideration of systemic impacts within ICT innovation, and design processes today lack the information and tools required to embed environmental sustainability into ICT.This project, PARIS-DE, will ensure that the carbon emissions associated with the ICT sector are aligned with the Paris agreement: limiting temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To do this, the PARIS-DE project will develop a digital sustainability framework that systemically considers ICT's impacts and ensures Paris-compliant design through two key concepts: i) an evidence base around carbon emissions in the digital economy, and ii) a responsible innovation approach that targets environmental sustainability, yet maintains key aspects of ICT design that enable societal thriving. Using a range of disciplinary perspectives including computer science, human-centred design, philosophy and ethics and environmental economics, PARIS-DE will develop digital tools that support ICT development within planetary boundaries, and will create, demonstrate and evaluate the digital sustainability framework through three case studies: 1) big data and AI, 2) autonomous systems, and 3) video streaming. These case studies, taken as representative of the digital economy, will allow for an evaluation of different underlying technologies that threaten rising emissions. The case studies will also involve working closely with key stakeholders in ICT innovation (e.g. designers and developers in the ICT sector), ensuring the framework is comprehensive and effective. PARIS-DE will ultimately allow the ICT sector to innovate technology more sustainably and in-line with climate change mitigation targets.