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Digital Sustainability: How to Reduce Your Digital Footprint

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Overview

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Learn how to monitor and reduce your digital carbon footprint following digital clean-up and waste management best practices.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Reducing your digital footprint
1. How Is Digital Connected to the Environment?
  • The impact and sustainability of digital transformation on the environment
  • Responsible use of digital assets to reduce carbon footprint
2. What Is the Carbon Footprint and the Digital Carbon Footprint?
  • What is the carbon footprint?
  • What is digital or invisible waste?
3. The Impact of Personal Activities on the Digital Carbon Footprint
  • The impact of device use on the carbon footprint
  • The impact on the carbon footprint of devices on standby
  • The impact of energy consumption
  • The impact of digital assets on the carbon footprint
  • Technological waste: Marketing and planned obsolescence vs. real needs
  • The impact of teleworking
  • The impact of ecommerce
4. Your Own Carbon Fingerprint on the World
  • Awareness of our own digital impact
  • How to measure the time of use of digital services
5. Design Your Strategy to Reduce Digital Waste
  • Goals and objectives to reduce your digital carbon footprint
  • Implement your digital impact reduction plan
  • Modify your behavior to reduce your carbon footprint
  • Measure your digital carbon footprint reduction results
Conclusion: Become a Change Agent
  • Make changes in your workplace
  • Influence others by sharing your results and best practices

Taught by

Lorena Díaz Quijano

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