Incorporating sustainability concerns into the design decision-making process for digital solutions and software-intensive systems is becoming imperative. Our Digital Sustainability Dojo provides professionals with a comprehensive and experiential learning environment to address these new challenges.
In this course, we explain the concept of software sustainability and how digital solutions can be pivotal in designing for sustainability, setting up KPIs, metrics, and measures, and ultimately creating an incremental process of design, measurement, and monitoring. This understanding will help reassess past decisions so that the target sustainability goals can be achieved.
To this end, the course will teach the Sustainability Assessment Framework (SAF) toolkit, an open-source toolkit for software sustainability design and sustainability-quality assessment.
What will the program offer you?
- Gain in-depth knowledge about the key concepts concerning digital sustainability, and its relevance for various industry sectors.
- Delve deeper into the analysis and design of how to plan for the target sustainability impacts in digital/software solutions.
- Translate digital sustainability design into a concrete quality model which guides and enables the operationalisation of measurements and monitoring of actual sustainability impacts so to create insights into results and improvement opportunities.
- Design sound key performance indicators, link them to the relevant SDGs or ESG goals of one organisations, and translate them into concrete metrics and measures to operationalise the sustainability-quality plans.
- Apply the acquired knowledge directly in a concrete project or case study within your own practice.
- Access to concrete tactics, practices, and open-source tools.
Starting date: To be determined
Tuition fee: € 3,000
Format: This course consists of four modules (4 half days)
Location: VU Amsterdam
(In case of insufficient admissions, the organisation reserves the right to postpone the course)
