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]]> Comment on Radical teleworking by Mauricio Sedano http://www.sustainableinternet.org/2012/radical-teleworking/comment-page-1/#comment-659 Mauricio Sedano Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:04:01 +0000 http://www.sustainableinternet.org/?p=562#comment-659 Dear Jorge Zapico, I’m a nearest estranger, also an information worker and in a radical teleworking situation, and in my opinion this is a common experience and next step that is important for me as humanitarian worker in transition. The first idea that comes to me when I read you here, is that we should meet us and start to exchange ideas or strategies for making sustainable this “development capacities migration” to rural environments. And not just for us as “information workers” also for others with locals and in special for long term development and humanitarian assistance workers. Let me explain why. As “information worker” I’m in transition from development to humanitarian assistance.This for you should meant from long term (12 to 24 months) to short term duration missions (6 yo 12 months) or frequently commuting, but from a countryside to an other, and from a non-developed country to and other, or in the best to their capitals. Me and wife were living in Mali since 2010. She is a gender and development worker and was based at Kayes in Mali countryside. Kayes is radical teleworking because you have to consume custom power and refrigeration and not just IT deployments for that you do and produce. Then, I was based at Bamako the capital in Mali and from this is why we loved frequently commute and flexiworking from rural to capital (but this is not just to jump on the car and to reach the office meetings as you said, there are 640 Km -the last 120 Km are a nightmare- and it takes at least 9 hours). Here the Malian 3G network (including the WiMax also available in rural capitals) does not meant the same Internet than there in rural Sweden, and what I was doing was to produce management information for development actors (NGO and agency). Some of our experiences in Mali also are having meetings, but mainly voice meetings and with supervisors in Senegal, colleagues and parents in Spain, and family in US and Colombia. And maybe those are not the same experience but is flexiworking situations as in your experiment (it is what you do and not where you go). I start to follow your works in sustainability since 2009, with they I achieve to state in 2010 about non produced management information and its impact on the municipal solid waste service: it does not contribute to operation sustainability and it value is was 3ME approx. for the operational budget around 19ME/year. I also commented about you to my friend Eva Zapico in El Salvador, but she is from Leon and does not know you. The first of your I found was because my idealized Ericsson: Mobile applications for a sustainable urban lifestyle (in 2008), the second because my dreamed CENS and NOKIA Research Center Climate Persuasive Services: Changing behavior towards low-carbon lifestyles (in 2009) and the last one because we were exploring some LCA for Solid Waste Information Systems at UNICAN. Greenalytics: A tool for mash-up life cycle assessment of websites (in 2010). I’m still interested on sustainability and I love you are experiencing this migration to rural, in your terms “radical teleworking” for an “information worker”. This for me mean a common point of interest for exchanging ideas about “challenges and strategies for the development capacities when they migrate to a rural non ICT developed environments”. I create a sustainable strategy for that with the concepts ramaka (2005) and mutualwireless (2007), but it is for “non-farm income generation” initiatives and from a social perspective: this is an approximation for “when information workers move to rural” because “they does not produce rural, goods but yes they can create, provide and impact service rural sector”. I will pass over Stockholm the first week of May I’m going to Harnosand for specialized course with Swedish International Development Agency. If you have time, In my way back the 11/05/2012 we can meet for talk in Spanish. Please let me know, sincerely yours Mauricio Sedano Dear Jorge Zapico,

I’m a nearest estranger, also an information worker and in a radical teleworking situation, and in my opinion this is a common experience and next step that is important for me as humanitarian worker in transition.

The first idea that comes to me when I read you here, is that we should meet us and start to exchange ideas or strategies for making sustainable this “development capacities migration” to rural environments. And not just for us as “information workers” also for others with locals and in special for long term development and humanitarian assistance workers. Let me explain why.

As “information worker” I’m in transition from development to humanitarian assistance.This for you should meant from long term (12 to 24 months) to short term duration missions (6 yo 12 months) or frequently commuting, but from a countryside to an other, and from a non-developed country to and other, or in the best to their capitals.

Me and wife were living in Mali since 2010. She is a gender and development worker and was based at Kayes in Mali countryside. Kayes is radical teleworking because you have to consume custom power and refrigeration and not just IT deployments for that you do and produce. Then, I was based at Bamako the capital in Mali and from this is why we loved frequently commute and flexiworking from rural to capital (but this is not just to jump on the car and to reach the office meetings as you said, there are 640 Km -the last 120 Km are a nightmare- and it takes at least 9 hours). Here the Malian 3G network (including the WiMax also available in rural capitals) does not meant the same Internet than there in rural Sweden, and what I was doing was to produce management information for development actors (NGO and agency).

Some of our experiences in Mali also are having meetings, but mainly voice meetings and with supervisors in Senegal, colleagues and parents in Spain, and family in US and Colombia. And maybe those are not the same experience but is flexiworking situations as in your experiment (it is what you do and not where you go).

I start to follow your works in sustainability since 2009, with they I achieve to state in 2010 about non produced management information and its impact on the municipal solid waste service: it does not contribute to operation sustainability and it value is was 3ME approx. for the operational budget around 19ME/year. I also commented about you to my friend Eva Zapico in El Salvador, but she is from Leon and does not know you.

The first of your I found was because my idealized Ericsson: Mobile applications for a sustainable urban lifestyle (in 2008), the second because my dreamed CENS and NOKIA Research Center Climate Persuasive Services: Changing behavior towards low-carbon lifestyles (in 2009) and the last one because we were exploring some LCA for Solid Waste Information Systems at UNICAN. Greenalytics: A tool for mash-up life cycle assessment of websites (in 2010).

I’m still interested on sustainability and I love you are experiencing this migration to rural, in your terms “radical teleworking” for an “information worker”. This for me mean a common point of interest for exchanging ideas about “challenges and strategies for the development capacities when they migrate to a rural non ICT developed environments”.

I create a sustainable strategy for that with the concepts ramaka (2005) and mutualwireless (2007), but it is for “non-farm income generation” initiatives and from a social perspective: this is an approximation for “when information workers move to rural” because “they does not produce rural, goods but yes they can create, provide and impact service rural sector”.

I will pass over Stockholm the first week of May I’m going to Harnosand for specialized course with Swedish International Development Agency. If you have time, In my way back the 11/05/2012 we can meet for talk in Spanish.

Please let me know, sincerely yours

Mauricio Sedano

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]]> Comment on The author by Mauricio Sedano http://www.sustainableinternet.org/author/comment-page-1/#comment-658 Mauricio Sedano Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:02:34 +0000 http://itsagreenmobileworld.verdemedia.org/?page_id=2#comment-658 Dear Jorge Zapico, I’m a nearest estranger, also an information worker and in a radical teleworking situation, and in my opinion this is a common experience and next step that is important for me as humanitarian worker in transition. The first idea that comes to me when I read you here, is that we should meet us and start to exchange ideas or strategies for making sustainable this “development capacities migration” to rural environments. And not just for us as “information workers” also for others with locals and in special for long term development and humanitarian assistance workers. Let me explain why. As “information worker” I’m in transition from development to humanitarian assistance.This for you should meant from long term (12 to 24 months) to short term duration missions (6 yo 12 months) or frequently commuting, but from a countryside to an other, and from a non-developed country to and other, or in the best to their capitals. Me and wife were living in Mali since 2010. She is a gender and development worker and was based at Kayes in Mali countryside. Kayes is radical teleworking because you have to consume custom power and refrigeration and not just IT deployments for that you do and produce. Then, I was based at Bamako the capital in Mali and from this is why we loved frequently commute and flexiworking from rural to capital (but this is not just to jump on the car and to reach the office meetings as you said, there are 640 Km -the last 120 Km are a nightmare- and it takes at least 9 hours). Here the Malian 3G network (including the WiMax also available in rural capitals) does not meant the same Internet than there in rural Sweden, and what I was doing was to produce management information for development actors (NGO and agency). Some of our experiences in Mali also are having meetings, but mainly voice meetings and with supervisors in Senegal, colleagues and parents in Spain, and family in US and Colombia. And maybe those are not the same experience but is flexiworking situations as in your experiment (it is what you do and not where you go). I start to follow your works in sustainability since 2009, with they I achieve to state in 2010 about non produced management information and its impact on the municipal solid waste service: it does not contribute to operation sustainability and it value is was 3ME approx. for the operational budget around 19ME/year. The first of your I found was because my idealized Ericsson: Mobile applications for a sustainable urban lifestyle (in 2008), the second because my dreamed CENS and NOKIA Research Center Climate Persuasive Services: Changing behavior towards low-carbon lifestyles (in 2009) and the last one because we were exploring some LCA for Solid Waste Information Systems at UNICAN. Greenalytics: A tool for mash-up life cycle assessment of websites (in 2010). I’m still interested on sustainability and I love you are experiencing this migration to rural, in your terms “radical teleworking” for an “information worker”. This for me mean a common point of interest for exchanging ideas about “challenges and strategies for the development capacities when they migrate to a rural non ICT developed environments”. I create a sustainable strategy for that with the concepts ramaka (2005) and mutualwireless (2007), but it is for “non-farm income generation” initiatives and from a social perspective: this is an approximation for “when information workers move to rural” because “they does not produce rural, goods but yes they can create, provide and impact service rural sector”. I will pass over Stockholm the first week of May I’m going to Harnosand for specialized course with Swedish International Development Agency. If you have time, In my way back the 11/05/2012 we can meet for talk in Spanish. Please let me know, sincerely yours Mauricio Sedano Dear Jorge Zapico,

I’m a nearest estranger, also an information worker and in a radical teleworking situation, and in my opinion this is a common experience and next step that is important for me as humanitarian worker in transition.

The first idea that comes to me when I read you here, is that we should meet us and start to exchange ideas or strategies for making sustainable this “development capacities migration” to rural environments. And not just for us as “information workers” also for others with locals and in special for long term development and humanitarian assistance workers. Let me explain why.

As “information worker” I’m in transition from development to humanitarian assistance.This for you should meant from long term (12 to 24 months) to short term duration missions (6 yo 12 months) or frequently commuting, but from a countryside to an other, and from a non-developed country to and other, or in the best to their capitals.

Me and wife were living in Mali since 2010. She is a gender and development worker and was based at Kayes in Mali countryside. Kayes is radical teleworking because you have to consume custom power and refrigeration and not just IT deployments for that you do and produce. Then, I was based at Bamako the capital in Mali and from this is why we loved frequently commute and flexiworking from rural to capital (but this is not just to jump on the car and to reach the office meetings as you said, there are 640 Km -the last 120 Km are a nightmare- and it takes at least 9 hours). Here the Malian 3G network (including the WiMax also available in rural capitals) does not meant the same Internet than there in rural Sweden, and what I was doing was to produce management information for development actors (NGO and agency).

Some of our experiences in Mali also are having meetings, but mainly voice meetings and with supervisors in Senegal, colleagues and parents in Spain, and family in US and Colombia. And maybe those are not the same experience but is flexiworking situations as in your experiment (it is what you do and not where you go).

I start to follow your works in sustainability since 2009, with they I achieve to state in 2010 about non produced management information and its impact on the municipal solid waste service: it does not contribute to operation sustainability and it value is was 3ME approx. for the operational budget around 19ME/year.

The first of your I found was because my idealized Ericsson: Mobile applications for a sustainable urban lifestyle (in 2008), the second because my dreamed CENS and NOKIA Research Center Climate Persuasive Services: Changing behavior towards low-carbon lifestyles (in 2009) and the last one because we were exploring some LCA for Solid Waste Information Systems at UNICAN. Greenalytics: A tool for mash-up life cycle assessment of websites (in 2010).

I’m still interested on sustainability and I love you are experiencing this migration to rural, in your terms “radical teleworking” for an “information worker”. This for me mean a common point of interest for exchanging ideas about “challenges and strategies for the development capacities when they migrate to a rural non ICT developed environments”.

I create a sustainable strategy for that with the concepts ramaka (2005) and mutualwireless (2007), but it is for “non-farm income generation” initiatives and from a social perspective: this is an approximation for “when information workers move to rural” because “they does not produce rural, goods but yes they can create, provide and impact service rural sector”.

I will pass over Stockholm the first week of May I’m going to Harnosand for specialized course with Swedish International Development Agency. If you have time, In my way back the 11/05/2012 we can meet for talk in Spanish.

Please let me know, sincerely yours

Mauricio Sedano

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]]> Comment on Radical teleworking by Jorge Zapico http://www.sustainableinternet.org/2012/radical-teleworking/comment-page-1/#comment-657 Jorge Zapico Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:05:25 +0000 http://www.sustainableinternet.org/?p=562#comment-657 Hi Daniel, Yes, the work/place relation is not an easy one, and as you develop in http://danielpargman.blogspot.se/2012/04/i-am-health-personified.html our reality of work is not the same as the dominant/protestant ethic/industrial mental model of work. Personal interest and work are intertwined and it's difficult to make a clear cut. Is writing a blog post part of our work or part of our personal interest? Does it writing it from the office more like work? Organizing our own time may be difficult because we have been educated in a system where someone else has been in control of our time from the beginning, all the way from school, high school, university, workplace, we have learned that being there is what matters, it's an obligation, we don't need to think why. We don't know what to do when suddenly our time is ours. So it's as you say, a matter of habits, of practice, as almost anything else. Hi Daniel,
Yes, the work/place relation is not an easy one, and as you develop in http://danielpargman.blogspot.se/2012/04/i-am-health-personified.html our reality of work is not the same as the dominant/protestant ethic/industrial mental model of work. Personal interest and work are intertwined and it’s difficult to make a clear cut. Is writing a blog post part of our work or part of our personal interest? Does it writing it from the office more like work?
Organizing our own time may be difficult because we have been educated in a system where someone else has been in control of our time from the beginning, all the way from school, high school, university, workplace, we have learned that being there is what matters, it’s an obligation, we don’t need to think why. We don’t know what to do when suddenly our time is ours. So it’s as you say, a matter of habits, of practice, as almost anything else.

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]]> Comment on Radical teleworking by Daniel Pargman http://www.sustainableinternet.org/2012/radical-teleworking/comment-page-1/#comment-651 Daniel Pargman Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:57:37 +0000 http://www.sustainableinternet.org/?p=562#comment-651 1) Nice pictures! 2) Work vs place. I like to allocate certain types of work to certain places, i.e. serious writing is best done neither at home or at my work, but rather at the Royal Library. The connections and complications are interesting and intriguing. Being able to organize your own time is a task that has *not* become easier in the age of social media. It might not be the case that some have it and others don't, but rather that we need new habits and to take the "problem" seriously enough to practice and train (e.g. like with e-mail 10 years ago and all the books about "effective habits" etc.). There is a (research) field of personal information management (PIM) that might be of interest to check out... 3) I like the (implicit) perspective of eye-opening moments. I had one twenty years ago that was centered around e-mail, time zones and distributed work. 4) Good luck! Hope to catch you by Skype, but we do need to schedule as I don't open Skype unless I have a planned meeting... 1) Nice pictures!

2) Work vs place. I like to allocate certain types of work to certain places, i.e. serious writing is best done neither at home or at my work, but rather at the Royal Library. The connections and complications are interesting and intriguing. Being able to organize your own time is a task that has *not* become easier in the age of social media. It might not be the case that some have it and others don’t, but rather that we need new habits and to take the “problem” seriously enough to practice and train (e.g. like with e-mail 10 years ago and all the books about “effective habits” etc.). There is a (research) field of personal information management (PIM) that might be of interest to check out…

3) I like the (implicit) perspective of eye-opening moments. I had one twenty years ago that was centered around e-mail, time zones and distributed work.

4) Good luck! Hope to catch you by Skype, but we do need to schedule as I don’t open Skype unless I have a planned meeting…

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]]> Comment on London Green Hackathon by Daniel Pargman http://www.sustainableinternet.org/2012/london-green-hackathon/comment-page-1/#comment-549 Daniel Pargman Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:24:09 +0000 http://www.sustainableinternet.org/?p=544#comment-549 "this event brought together many of the people working on the connections of both, it was full of interesting people" Perhaps and idea would be to support networking more explicitly; those who would like to (not mandatory) can present themselves at the beginning of the event with a 6-slide, 2-minute Pecha Kucha presentation. Also good way to get people who don't know others to find partners/a team? “this event brought together many of the people working on the connections of both, it was full of interesting people”

Perhaps and idea would be to support networking more explicitly; those who would like to (not mandatory) can present themselves at the beginning of the event with a 6-slide, 2-minute Pecha Kucha presentation. Also good way to get people who don’t know others to find partners/a team?

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]]> Comment on Reflections on the Stockholm Green Hackathon by Sustainable Internet » London Green Hackathon http://www.sustainableinternet.org/2011/reflections-on-the-stockholm-green-hackathon/comment-page-1/#comment-548 Sustainable Internet » London Green Hackathon Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:10:14 +0000 http://www.sustainableinternet.org/?p=521#comment-548 [...] different places and use the same name and image. The London hackathon is the first one after the Stockholm one, and it was a success. London has a big community both of developers and of climate change, and [...] [...] different places and use the same name and image. The London hackathon is the first one after the Stockholm one, and it was a success. London has a big community both of developers and of climate change, and [...]

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]]> Comment on Reflections on the Stockholm Green Hackathon by Daniel Pargman http://www.sustainableinternet.org/2011/reflections-on-the-stockholm-green-hackathon/comment-page-1/#comment-453 Daniel Pargman Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:46:50 +0000 http://www.sustainableinternet.org/?p=521#comment-453 Good summary, interesting connections to Himanen Good summary, interesting connections to Himanen

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]]> Comment on Greenalytics by Kay Grosskop http://www.sustainableinternet.org/2011/greenalytics/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Kay Grosskop Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:54:42 +0000 http://www.sustainableinternet.org/?p=492#comment-420 Hello, I am working at SIG.eu a Dutch company concerned with consultancy on IT systems. Traditionally we have been focussed on maintainability aspects of software, but recently we have been looking into possibilities of assessments of software applications regarding their energy efficiency. A first step is always to depict the total consumption, but it is also important for us to give recommendations for redesign of the system. Your approach is very interesting and partly complementary to ours. Normally we do actually have access to the serverside and other parts of web-based systems. Our estimation model is as far as I can tell quite similar to ours. For example we used google analytics in a manual fashion to get usage data input for our model. It would be interesting to exchange ideas the matter of energy consumption metrics for (distributed) software systems. Regards, Kay Hello,

I am working at SIG.eu a Dutch company concerned with consultancy on IT systems. Traditionally we have been focussed on maintainability aspects of software, but recently we have been looking into possibilities of assessments of software applications regarding their energy efficiency. A first step is always to depict the total consumption, but it is also important for us to give recommendations for redesign of the system.
Your approach is very interesting and partly complementary to ours. Normally we do actually have access to the serverside and other parts of web-based systems. Our estimation model is as far as I can tell quite similar to ours. For example we used google analytics in a manual fashion to get usage data input for our model. It would be interesting to exchange ideas the matter of energy consumption metrics for (distributed) software systems.

Regards, Kay

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]]> Comment on The author by Stelios http://www.sustainableinternet.org/author/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Stelios Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:46:43 +0000 http://itsagreenmobileworld.verdemedia.org/?page_id=2#comment-312 Keep up the great work Jorge! Keep up the great work Jorge!

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