Minor Digitalization and Environment: Friend or Foe?

Contents

• Session 1 - The Anthropocentric age
  • Carbon emission origin
  • Geographic and sector breakdown
  • The Paris agreement
  • Hands-on on Kaya equation: understanding the key levers on worldwide CO2 emissions. 
• Session 2 - Questioning Digitalization
  • The importance of tech for human societies
  • Energy for the dummies
  • GHG protocol and reporting by companies 
  • Case study: Netflix and GHG emissions of video streaming 
• Session 3 - Lab on Power and Energy of Computers and network workloads
  • Graded lab
• Sessions 4 - Measuring ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Footprint
  • Production vs. Usage
  • Ecological impact (minerals, air, water)
  • Life Cycle Assessment
  • ICT: a cure ou a curse for environment?
  • Case study: smartphone
• Session 5 - Direct and indirect impact of ICT
  • Direct and indirect impact of ICT
  • Green IT and IT for Green
• Session 6 - Green Algorithm Design
• Session 7 - Law, Environment and Digital world
  • Disruptive Technology and their ecological impact
  • Compliance with Law
• Session 8 - MCQ and oral presentation of selected research articles and open debate on proposed questions from students 

• Luc Deneire
• Frédéric Giroire
• Mélanie Olivari
• Guillaume Urvoy-Keller

• Lab/Hands-on - 23/10/2025 (session 3), 9h00 - Campus SophiaTech, Templiers, room B207 (25 % of the final grade)
• Oral presentation - 11/12/2025, 9h00 - Campus SophiaTech, Templiers, room B207 (50 % of the final grade)
• MCQ - 11/12/2025, 9h00 - Campus SophiaTech, Templiers, room B207 (25 % of the final grade)

• FUN MOOC https://www.fun-mooc.fr/fr/cours/impacts-environnementaux-du-numerique/