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Information and communication technologies for environmental sustainability

Publications associées (8)

On the radar: Predicting near-future surges in skills’ hiring demand to provide early warning to educators

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis, Ramtin Yazdanian

The AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution and the COVID-19 pandemic have one important thing in common: they both have caused significant and rapid changes to the skill set landscape of various industries. These disruptive forces mean that the early ident ...

2021

Promoting and Implementing Digital STEM Education at Secondary Schools in Africa

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah

This paper discusses an ongoing initiative aimed at promoting and implementing digital STEM education at secondary schools in Africa. This initiative, coined Go-Lab Goes Africa (GO-GA), is an innovation action supported by the European Commission through i ...

IEEE2019

GeoFarmer: A monitoring and feedback system for agricultural development projects

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Farmers can manage their crops and farms better if they can communicate their experiences, both positive and negative, with each other and with experts. Digital agriculture using internet communication technology (ICT) may facilitate the sharing of experie ...

2019

A Study on Estimating the Next Failure Time of Compressor Equipment in an Offshore Plant

Sangje Cho

The offshore plant equipment usually has a long life cycle. During its O&M (Operation and Maintenance) phase, since the accidental occurrence of offshore plant equipment causes catastrophic damage, it is necessary to make more efforts for managing critical ...

Hindawi Limited2016

Wireless sensor networks for marginal farming in India

Jacques Panchard

In this dissertation, we explore the potential of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in an original context, the small agriculture of Developing Countries (DCs). Our goal is to confront an emerging technology with a concrete problem of world-wide dimensions, ...

EPFL2008

Environmental impacts and benefits of information and communication technology infrastructure and services, using process and input-output life cycle assessment

Yves Jon Césare Loerincik

Sustainable development and the Information Society are two concepts that are not commonly associated. However, both could have a major impact on the other. Information and communication technologies (ICT) may have important negative impacts on the environ ...

EPFL2006

COMMON-Sense Net: Improved Water Management for Resource-Poor Farmers via Sensor Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jacques Panchard

We describe the on-going design and implementation of a sensor network for agricultural management targeted at resource-poor farmers in India. Our focus on semi-arid regions led us to concentrate on water-related issues. Throughout 2004, we carried outa su ...

IEEE2006

Web-Based Experimentation in Flexible Education: Technological Challenges and Deployment Methodologies

Denis Gillet

The introduction of information and communication technologies in education in general, and of Web-based experimentation solutions in engineering education in particular, presents many challenges. This paper describes the current situation according to the ...

2005