The PC4 is called DOMEN: “Data, Organizations, Markets for Digital Eco-responsibility”.
Digital eco-responsibility cannot be achieved without a major effort on the part of economic players: manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, consumers, and regulators. This project focuses on how these players are committing to digital eco-responsibility, with a primary focus on player strategies and their interactions at different levels: data, infrastructure, practices, and modes of regulation. Markets and business practices appear to be both a major lever and an obstacle to the transition. This project will seek to overcome this antagonism by combining approaches from the social sciences and humanities and digital sciences, based on cutting-edge research on various topics: the digital product passport, frugal cloud computing, data exchange systems, circular economy business models, CSR management tools, regulation of greenwashing, etc. The project will therefore examine the development of sustainable digital solutions for the various actors in the economy. Technological, social, and regulatory aspects will be systematically taken into account.
PC4 is organized into four workpackages, which will address the following concerns:
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WP #4.1 - Digital traceability and product circularity: This first research area focuses on the link between the life cycle of products (from their development to their end of life) and eco-responsible digital technology. It focuses not only on product valuation from an eco-responsible perspective, but also on information infrastructures and digital business models that promote the development of the circular economy (Digital Product Passport; reconditioning).
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WP #4.2 - Data frugality and market infrastructures: This second research area brings together work on the socio-economic and technical modalities of developing frugal data infrastructures (frugal cloud, data exchange systems, infrastructure coupling).
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WP #4.3 - Consumer digital sobriety: norms and behaviors: This third area focuses on the digital sobriety practices of individuals (consumers, users) and the mechanisms (media frameworks, incentive systems) likely to encourage them to become more sober.
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WP #4.4 - Firm digital sobriety : accountability and regulation: This area brings together contributions that examine the strategic, organizational, and institutional modalities of business engagement in digital sobriety (CSR mechanisms, digital service companies, national and transnational legislation).
Leaders: Xavier Zeitoun/Ariane Piel(CEA), Kevin Mellet (Science Po), François Deltour (IMT Atlantique)