22 April 2021
This new edition connects researchers from across the globe to examine the role of technology from a climate justice perspective. It addresses the twin challenges of environmental crises and digital transformation, offering perspectives that counteract dominant techno-solutionist approaches that overlook the negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts of digital technologies.
This critical and urgent edition of GISWatch contains 46 country and regional reports, together with a series of powerful thematic reports that explore multi-dimensional challenges confronting civil society in our efforts to build a just and sustainable world in the age of digital transformation.
At the launch, we invited authors to present an action step or key recommendation from their reports. Acknowledging that an online launch poses challenges for coordinating across time zones, and emphasising the importance of sharing a diversity of voices on this important issue, we asked authors to make a short video of their key action step, explaining why it is important, how people can contribute and what the benefits would be of taking that step.