Today I had a meeting with another student in my program to discuss a small forum (maximum 40 people) we are organising on campus next February. We are searching for ideas and will be giving a short synopsis about what we will do in our next departmental meeting on the 14th so any advice would be appreciated.

Our forum will be entitled “Visualising Sustainability”. We would like to take a number of local speakers and moderate a forum in which we hear different perspectives regarding the relationship between technology, communication, and sustainability. I think it would be interesting to hear someone that would talk about mobile technology and sustainability or have a discussion about how social software can be used as a global medium to promote sustainability issues.

Any ideas for discussion topics or do you know people that have sustainability interests in the Vancouver area?

Relevance: Does anyone wonder where discarded computer technology ends up? According to this report entitled “The Digital Dump”, it is developing countries. It would be beneficial to hear first-person reports in a open-discussion format.

Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable, creating enormous environmental problems in some of the world’s poorest places

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