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Energy system
The organization makes a conscious effort to power its business-side operations (office, research with renewable energy sources 🔲 🔲
The organization's web servers use green hosting 🔲 🔲
The hardware given or sold to users (e.g. Internet of Things devices) is powered with solar energy or other renewable sources 🔲 🔲
Digital equipment
The organization possesses a hardware development team or hires hardware developers overseas to produce and digital equipment as part of its business model 🔲 🔲
The organization produces or reuses open hardware designs to reduce its development time and cost 🔲 🔲
The organization's business model includes transportation logistics for electronics, such as buying and transporting digital equipment and accessories for sale, including devices, batteries, cables, adapters, etc. 🔲 🔲
The organization enforces backward compatibility to extend the life of electronic devices 🔲 🔲
Non-digital equipment
The organization has constructed stores, offices, coworking spaces, or any other infrastructure for its business model 🔲 🔲
Products offered by the organization require packaging 🔲 🔲
The organization produces non-digital accessories such as straps, adapters or protective cases 🔲 🔲
The product or service includes printed materials such as user manuals or books 🔲 🔲
The organization regularly invests in promotional materials (mugs, T-shirts, pens) 🔲 🔲
Automation and management
Most of the software development for the organization's digital products is done in-house 🔲 🔲
The organization hires on-demand workers from services like Amazon Mechanical Turk or Upwork for most of its digital product development 🔲 🔲
The organization reuses open source software 🔲 🔲
Digital development workers are required to travel regularly (either by land or air) for business activities 🔲 🔲
The business model relies on obtaining, storing, analyzing, or delivering large amounts of data to its users 🔲 🔲
Network infrastructure
The organization installs wired or wireless network connectivity as part of its business model 🔲 🔲
The organization serves areas with low network connectivity 🔲 🔲
Business activities require dedicated cloud services for its operation 🔲 🔲
There local data transfer limitations for the type of data required by your organization, which makes it incur in extra costs 🔲 🔲
Direct costs
You assess that the digital system's costs are reasonable 🔲 🔲
The investment made in implementing the system will pay off within a reasonable time in the future 🔲 🔲
The benefits provided by the digital system are not paid off by other individuals, especially from vulnerable communities 🔲 🔲
The system substitutes a more costly alternative 🔲 🔲
Social and health effects
The digital system reduces the overall carbon footprint produced by similar alternatives 🔲 🔲
The system helps reduce economic and social inequalities 🔲 🔲
The system improves the well-being of its users and society 🔲 🔲
There are no negative health impacts associated to the use of the system 🔲 🔲
Feedbacks
The system is not intended to increase consumption by its users 🔲 🔲
The system does not aim to increase resource extraction, product manufacturing or transportation 🔲 🔲
The data produced by the system is relevant and non-relevant data is purged to reduce storage 🔲 🔲
The system substitutes a previous alternative completely and renders it obsolete in all cases 🔲 🔲
Cybersecurity
The service provided by the system is considered non-critical and thus it does not require extra security measures 🔲 🔲
The system does not store personal or critical information 🔲 🔲
The system does not require other external cybersecurity services 🔲 🔲
Local impacts
The organization has waste reduction and management policies in place for its devices 🔲 🔲
The datacenters contracted for cloud services follow environmental policies for water stewardship, land use, fair wages, and environmental conservation in their physical locations 🔲 🔲
The organization you work for pays fair wages to employees and contractors in developing countries 🔲 🔲
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Keywords climate change, ICTs
SDG SDG12 Responsible consumption and production, SDG07 Affordable and clean energy
Authors Emilio
License CC-BY-SA-4.0
Organizations Green Web Foundation
Language English (en)
Related 0 subpages, 0 pages link here
Redirects Carbon footprint guide for tech practitioners/Questions
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Created May 20, 2022 by Emilio
Last edit December 30, 2025 by Maintenance script
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