Being able to step voltages to a higher value and step voltages down to a lower value is one of the benefits of alternating current. This book will explain how this is possible through transformers with a focus on single phase.

Table of contents:

• Basic Operations of Single Phase Transformers

• Construction of a Transformer

• Operation (How the heck do they work?)

• Additive and Subtractive Polarity

• Multi-Winding Transformers

• Paralleling Transformers

• Transformer Efficiency

• Percent Impedance

• Multi-Tap Transformers

• Auto-Transformers

• Instrument Transformers

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This book received the 2018 AECT Outstanding Book Award!

"What is this field?" "Where have we come from as a discipline, and where are we going?" "What do I want to study?" These and other questions are typical for new students in the field of Learning and Instructional Design Technology. This textbook is designed to help answer these questions and provide the quickest route to understanding the history and current trends in the field. After surveying classic theories and writings, as well as more recent applications of theory and practice, students will be better prepared to chart their own course and careers within the discipline. This book is designed to support foundations courses common in departments, as well as seminars on current trends and issues.

For a detailed Contents Page, go to https://edtechbooks.org/lidtfoundations 

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The discipline of Biosystems Engineering emerged in the 1990s from the traditional strongholds of agricultural engineering and food engineering. Biosystems engineering integrates engineering science and design with applied biological, environmental, and agricultural sciences. Introduction to Biosystems Engineering is targeted at 1st and 2nd year university-level students with an interest in biosystems engineering but who are not yet familiar with the breadth and depth of the subject. It is designed as a coherent educational resource, also available for download as individual digital chapters. The book can be used as a localized, customizable text for introductory courses in Biosystems Engineering globally. It is written as a series of stand-alone chapters organized under six major topics: Food and Bioprocessing; Environment; Buildings and Infrastructure; Information and Communications Technology and Data; Machinery Systems; and Energy. Each chapter is organized around stated learning outcomes and describes key concepts, applications of the concepts, and worked examples.  

Table of Contents

Energy Systems

• Bioenergy Conversion Systems

• Biogas Energy from Organic Wastes

• Biodiesel from Oils and Fats

• Baling Biomass: Densification and Energy Requirements

Information Technology, Sensors, and Control Systems

• • Basic Microcontroller Use for Measurement and Control

  • Visible and Near Infrared Optical Spectroscopic Sensors for Biosystems Engineering

  • Data Processing in Biosystems Engineering

Machinery Systems

• Traction

• Crop Establishment and Protection

• Grain Harvest and Handling

• Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems in Agricultural Machinery

Natural Resources and Environmental Systems

• Water Budgets for Sustainable Water Management

• Water Quality as a Driver of Ecological System Health

• Quantifying and Managing Soil Erosion on Cropland

• Anaerobic Digestion of Agri-Food By-Products

• Measurement of Gaseous Emissions from Animal Housing

Plant, Animal, and Facility Systems

• Plant Production in Controlled Environments

• Building Design for Energy Efficient Livestock Housing

Processing Systems

• Freezing of Food

• Principles of Thermal Processing of Packaged Foods

• Deep Fat Frying of Food

• Irradiation of Food

• Packaging

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This open access textbook introduces the emerging field of Development Engineering and its constituent theories, methods, and applications. It is both a teaching text for students and a resource for researchers and practitioners engaged in the design and scaling of technologies for low-resource communities. The scope is broad, ranging from the development of mobile applications for low-literacy users to hardware and software solutions for providing electricity and water in remote settings. It is also highly interdisciplinary, drawing on methods and theory from the social sciences as well as engineering and the natural sciences.

The opening section reviews the history of “technology-for-development” research, and presents a framework that formalizes this body of work and begins its transformation into an academic discipline. It identifies common challenges in development and explains the book’s iterative approach of “innovation, implementation, evaluation, adaptation.” Each of the next six thematic sections focuses on a different sector: energy and environment; market performance; education and labor; water, sanitation and health; digital governance; and connectivity. These thematic sections contain case studies from landmark research that directly integrates engineering innovation with technically rigorous methods from the social sciences. Each case study describes the design, evaluation, and/or scaling of a technology in the field and follows a single form, with common elements and discussion questions, to create continuity and pedagogical consistency. Together, they highlight successful solutions to development challenges, while also analyzing the rarely discussed failures. The book concludes by reiterating the core principles of development engineering illustrated in the case studies, highlighting common challenges that engineers and scientists will face in designing technology interventions that sustainably accelerate economic development.

Development Engineering provides, for the first time, a coherent intellectual framework for attacking the challenges of poverty and global climate change through the design of better technologies. It offers the rigorous discipline needed to channel the energy of a new generation of scientists and engineers toward advancing social justice and improved living conditions in low-resource communities around the world.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

• Introduction to Development Engineering

• Technology and Development

• A Practical Framework for Research

• Asking the “Right” Questions

Part I: Expanding Access to Affordable and Reliable Energy, While Minimizing the Environmental Impacts

• Front Matter

• Expanding Access to Electricity in Kenya

• Measuring Grid Reliability in Ghana

• Monitoring Industrial Pollution in India

Part II: Market Performance: Technologies to Improve Agricultural Market Performance

• Front Matter

• Digital Agricultural Extension for Development

• Digital Trading and Market Platforms: Ghana Case Study

• Fintech for Rural Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Part III: Expanding Human Potential: Technology-Based Solutions for Education and Labor

• Front Matter

• Customised E-Learning Platforms

• Digital Networking and the Case of Youth Unemployment in South Africa

• Amplifying Worker Voice with Technology and Organizational Incentives

Part IV: Water, Health, and Sanitation

• Front Matter

• Stopping Arsenic Poisoning in India

• Sensing Change: Measuring Cookstove Adoption with Internet-of-Things Sensors

• Reimagining Excreta as a Resource: Recovering Nitrogen from Urine in Nairobi, Kenya

• Engineering Predictable Water Supply: The Humans Behind the Tech

Part V: Digital Governance

• Front Matter

• Protecting Electoral Integrity in Emerging Democracies

• Monitoring the Monitors in Punjab, Pakistan

• Digital Public Services: The Development of Biometric Authentication in India

Part VI: Connectivity: Digital Communication Technology

• Front Matter

• Connecting Communities Through Mobile Networks: A Case Study of Implementing Community Cellular Networks in the Philippines

• Voice Interfaces for Underserved Communities

• The Open Data Kit Project

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Natural hazards and anthropic activities threaten the human environment. The gathering of field data is needed so as to quantify the impact of such activities. To gather the necessary data researchers nowadays use a great variety of new instruments based on electronics. Yet, the working principles of this new instrumentation might not be well understood by some potential users.

All operators of these new tools must gain proper insight so as to be able to judge whether the instrument is selected appropriately and functions adequately. This book attempts to demonstrate some characteristics that are not easy to understand by the uninitiated in the use of electronic instruments.

The material presented in this book was prepared with the purpose of reflecting the technological changes that have occurred in environmental modern instrumentation in the last few decades. The book is intended for students of hydrology, hydraulics, oceanography, meteorology and environmental sciences.

Basic concepts of electronics, special physics principles and signal processing are introduced in the first chapters in order to enable the reader to follow the topics developed in the book, without any prior knowledge of these matters.

The instruments are explained in detail and several examples are introduced to show their measuring limitations. Enough mathematical fundamentals are given to allow the reader to reach a good quantitative knowledge.

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This book is designed to serve as a textbook for classes exploring the nature of learning in the digital age. The genesis of this book is a desire to use OERs in all my teachings, coupled with the realization that the resources that I was looking for were not available and as such I needed to contribute in creating them. It is thus a small attempt to contribute to the vast repository of Open Educational Resources.

When discussing learning in the digital age, most focus on the technology first. However, the emphasis made in this book is that it’s about the learner not just the technology. One of the things that is easy to lose track of when talking about learning in the digital age is the learner. Technology is important and it has significant impact but it is still about the person who is using the technology. Many people conflate learning in the digital age with technology in today’s age. This important misconception is common and results from our failure to examine our understanding of what “learning” really is. Of course, Most of this depends on a person’s epistemology. There are numerous definitions of what learning is and often they come to how a person sees the world. Some argue that learning is about a change in behavior due to experiences, others state simply that learning is being able to do something new that you were not able to do before. Regardless of what side you choose, to understand what learning in the digital age is, one has to understand what learning itself is.

I am immensely thankful to the authors for sharing their ideas freely and for the reviewers who volunteered their time to give feedback.

    (By Tutaleni I. Asino)

Summary of Contents Page:

Introduction

1. Board games and learning: Why care in the digital age?

2. Effective Instruction in Blended Learning Environments

3. Podcasting as a Mode of Motivation in Online and Blended Learning

4. Virtual Proctoring and Academic Integrity

5. Personal Learning Networks: Defining and Building a PLN

6. Digital Learners in the Workplace

7. Digital literacies and the skills of the digital age

8. Playful Approaches to Learning

9. The Digital Divide

10. Ignored Conversations: Higher education funding in the digital age

11. Literacy in the Digital Age: From traditional to Digital to Mobile Digital Literacies

12. The Digital Divide and the lack Financial Literacy among First Generation

13. Resources

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This open access book will give insights into global issues of work and work systems design from a wide range of perspectives. Topics like the impact of AI in the workplace as well as design for digital sovereignty at the workplace or foresight processes for digital work are covered. Practical cases, empirical results and theoretical considerations are not only taken from Germany and Europe, but also from Southeast Asia, South Africa, Middle America, and Australia. The book intends to expand the so far national view on the aspects of digital work (e.g. like in Ernst Hartmann’s immensely successful work “Zukunft der Arbeit in Industrie 4.0”) into an international context – thus showing not only common challenges, but also offering suggestions, best practice examples or thoughts from different global regions.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

• New Digital Work and Digital Sovereignty at the Workplace – An Introduction

• Measuring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics on the Workplace

• Digital Work in Smart Production Systems

• Scenario-Based Foresight in the Age of Digital Technologies and AI

• Human-Machine-Interaction in Innovative Work Environment 4.0 – A Human-Centered Approach

• Collaborative Work Enabled by Immersive Environments

• Participation in Work of People with Disabilities by Means of Technical Assistance

• Designing Explainable and Controllable Artificial Intelligence Systems Together: Inclusive Participation Formats for Software-Based Working Routines in Industry

• Digital Work – Transforming the Higher Education Landscape in South Africa

• It’s Coming Home Down Under – The Potential of Digital Work to Overcome Australia’s Challenges in Reshoring Manufacturing

• Digital Work in East Asia

• Artificial Intelligence and Assistance Systems for Technical Vocational Education and Training – Opportunities and Risks

• Designing Digital Work – A Tale of Two Complexities

• Work-Based Learning in the Mexican Automotive Sector

• Capacity Building for Digital Work – A Case from Sino-German Cooperation

• Quantification of Uncertainties in Neural Networks

• A Final Word

Back Matter

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Digital technologies old and new are not objects that can be packed inside a box. They are a seamless, indivisible combination of people, organizations, policies, economies, histories, cultures, knowledge, and material things that are continuously shaped and reshaped. Every one of us innovates-in-use our everyday technologies; we just do not always know it. We are shaped by the networked information tools in our midst, and we shape them and thereby shape others. 

While many of the chapters in this book can be approached as standalone explorations, as many around the world have done, its full potential comes when collaboratively taken as a journey through twelve sessions. Each session in this second, revised edition includes two thematically linked chapters, one more socially oriented and one more technically oriented. Sessions are brought together into three larger generative themes that are built from three decades of participatory design in and with community, and from the teaching of these concepts and practices in courses and workshops. 

Approached within a community of practice, learning outcomes include discovering ways to advance power, both power within and power with others; advancing our technical skills, but also and even more, our progressive community engagement skills, our critical sociotechnical skills, and our cognitive, information, and social-emotional skills; and progressing our culturally competent collective leadership through social justice storytelling within a framing of reciprocity. In so doing, this textbook seeks to address the call placed by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – to rapidly shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society.

Contents Page:

Introduction to the Book

Orange Unit: A Person-Centered Launch

• 1A: Information Systems

• 1B: Introduction to Electronic Circuits

• 2A: Critical Social + Technical Perspective

• 2B: Electronic Components in Series

• 3A: The Unknown Tech Innovators

• 3B: Computer Building Blocks

• 4A: Storytelling in the Information Sciences

• 4B: Meet the Microcomputer

• 4C: Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi

• 4D: Coding Electronics

• Orange Unit Review

Blue Unit: Computational Tinkering

• 1A: The Logic of Hardware and Programming

• 1B: Essential Coding Concepts

• 2A: The Methodological Landscape

• 2B: Make Music with Code

• 3A: Valued, Inclusive Information and Computing Technology Experiences

• 3B: Build Functions for Remixable Code

• 4A: Sharing Our Counterstories

• 4B: Raspberry Pi Counterstory Little Free Library

• Blue Unit Review

• REMIX: Ideating and Iterating Code: Scratch Example

Rainbow Unit: Networks Big and Small

• 1A: Programmable Electronics, Smart Technology, and the Internet of Things

• 1B: Connecting Our Electronic ‘Thing’ to a Wider World

• 2A: Digital Internets, Past and Present

• 2B: The Infrastructure of the Internet

• 3A: The Digitization of Divides

• 3B: A Person-Centered Network Information System Adventure

• 4A: Recovering Community: Designing for Social Justice

• 4B: Community-Centered Design: An Emergent Strategy for Community Organizing and Action

• Rainbow Unit Review

• Introducing the Unix Command Line

• Raspberry Pi Networking 1010

• Network Troubleshooting

• Security and Privacy

Glossary

Bibliography

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This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, education, law, economics, history, anthropology, political science, and sociology. This initiative emerged from the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and the associated lecture series.

Digital Humanism deals with the complex relationships between people and machines in digital times. It acknowledges the potential of information technology. At the same time, it points to societal threats such as privacy violations and ethical concerns around artificial intelligence, automation and loss of jobs, ongoing monopolization on the Web, and sovereignty. Digital Humanism aims to address these topics with a sense of urgency but with a constructive mindset. The book argues for a Digital Humanism that analyses and, most importantly, influences the complex interplay of technology and humankind toward a better society and life while fully respecting universal human rights. It is a call to shaping technologies in accordance with human values and needs.

Contents Page:

Front Matter

Artificial Intelligence, Humans, and Control

• Are We Losing Control?

• Social Robots: Their History and What They Can Do for Us

• Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

• The Challenge of Human Dignity in the Era of Autonomous Systems

Participation and Democracy

• The Real Cost of Surveillance Capitalism: Digital Humanism in the United States and Europe

• Democratic Discourse in the Digital Public Sphere: Re-imagining Copyright Enforcement on Online Social Media Platforms

• The Internet Is Dead: Long Live the Internet

• Return to Freedom: Governance of Fair Innovation Ecosystems

• Decolonizing Technology and Society: A Perspective from the Global South

Ethics and Philosophy of Technology

• Digital Humanism and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence

• Explorative Experiments and Digital Humanism: Adding an Epistemic Dimension to the Ethical Debate

• Digital Humanism and Global Issues in Artificial Intelligence Ethics

• Our Digital Mirror

• Information Technology and the Arts

• Fictionalizing the Robot and Artificial Intelligence

• How to Be a Digital Humanist in International Relations: Cultural Tech Diplomacy Challenges Silicon Valley

Information Technology and the Arts

• We Are Needed More Than Ever: Cultural Heritage, Libraries, and Archives

• Humanism and the Great Opportunity of Intelligent User Interfaces for Cultural Heritage

Data, Algorithm, and Fairness

• The Attention Economy and the Impact of Artificial Intelligence

• Did You Find It on the Internet? Ethical Complexities of Search Engine Rankings

• Personalization, Fairness, and Post-Userism

Platform Power

• The Curation Chokepoint

• Business Model Innovation and the Rise of Technology Giants

• Scaling Up Broken Systems? Considerations from the Area of Music Streaming

• The Platform Economy After COVID-19: Regulation and the Precautionary Principle

Education and Skills of the Future

• Educational Requirements for Positive Social Robotics

• Informatics as a Fundamental Discipline in General Education: The Danish Perspective

• The Unbearable Disembodiedness of Cognitive Machines

Digital Geopolitics and Sovereignty

• The Technological Construction of Sovereignty

• A Crucial Decade for European Digital Sovereignty

• Geopolitics and Digital Sovereignty

• Cultural Influences on Artificial Intelligence: Along the New Silk Road

• Digital Geopolitics and Sovereignty

• Geopolitics, Digital Sovereignty…What’s in a Word?

Systems and Society

• Work Without Jobs

• Why Don’t You Do Something to Help Me? Digital Humanism: A Call for Cities to Act

• Ethics or Quality of Life?

• Responsible Technology Design: Conversations for Success

• Navigating Through Changes of a Digital World

Learning from Crisis

• Efficiency vs. Resilience: Lessons from COVID-19

• Contact Tracing Apps: A Lesson in Societal Aspects of Technological Development

• Data, Models, and Decisions: How We Can Shape Our World by Not Predicting the Future

• Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

• The Need for Respectful Technologies: Going Beyond Privacy

Realizing Digital Humanism

• Digital Humanism: Navigating the Tensions Ahead

• Should We Rethink How We Do Research?

• Interdisciplinarity: Models and Values for Digital Humanism

• It Is Simple, It Is Complicated

Correction to: Did You Find It on the Internet? Ethical Complexities of Search Engine Rankings

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Technology underpins human development. We need it to provide the very basics of a minimum standard of life – food, water, shelter, health and education. But a significant proportion of the world’s population do not have these basics today. And whilst a fifth of the world’s population lacks access to technologies fundamental to a basic standard of living, unfettered use of technology by those who have it brings its own problems – including pollution, global warming and threats to the sustainable future of humanity. So why are we so slow to address these issues? Why is it that the drivers of innovation mean we are more likely to see research into a cure for male baldness than a malaria vaccine or into methods for extracting shale gas as opposed to solutions to store renewable energy?

We need to rethink the purpose of our technological endeavour and how we provide access to and govern the use of technology today.

We need to retool – to change the alignment of our innovation systems to deliver technology that is socially useful and addresses the key challenges of poverty and environmental sustainability.

Above all, our relationship with technology needs a reboot. We need a different frame of reference – Technology Justice – to provide a radically different approach to our oversight and governance of the development and use of technology.

Rethink, Retool, Reboot addresses vital questions regarding the future of our world and the people living in it. It should be read by academics, students, activists and all those interested in international development and the environment.

Contents:

Prelims [Acronyms| Preface| Introduction]

Part 1 – RETHINK

Ch. 1 - Defining Technology and Technology Justice

• What is Technology?

• Technology Justice

Ch. 2 - Technology Justice and Access to basic services

• Justice as Fairness

• The light bulb - will it ever catch on? (Access to energy services)

• The tap – a technology whose time has finally come? (access to water and sanitation services)

• Critical yet unavailable – access to Essential Medicines

Ch. 3 Technology Justice and Access to knowledge

• Feeding the world – why the smallholder farmers need more support to access to technical knowledge

• The digital divide

• Conclusions - Technology Justice and Access

Ch. 4 – Technology justice and use.

• Justice as compromise

• Industrialised agriculture and biodiversity loss

• Energy security and climate change

• The demise of antibiotics and antimicrobials – a return dark ages for medicine?

• Technology justice and use

Ch. 5 Rethinking Technology Access and Use

Part 2 – RETOOL

Ch. 6 – The link between technological innovation and economic development

• Justice as a fair space for innovation

• Technological innovation in neo classical economic growth models

• The innovations systems approach

• Innovations systems and developing economies – insights and problems

Ch. 7 – Technology Justice and Innovation Systems in Practice

• Justice and the management of risk in technology innovation

• Justice and the shaping of the purpose of technology innovation

Ch. 8: Intellectual property rights: part of the solution or part of the problem?

• Why patent?

• Do patents encourage innovation?

• TRIPs, patents and the negative impacts on developing countries

• Patents and other asymmetries of power.

• Alternatives to the existing patent system

• Where next?

Ch. 9: Recognizing the Role of the State in Effective Innovation Systems

• Venture capital and the valley of death – the case of the energy sector

• Recognising reality – governments engage in entrepreneurial activity.

• Changing the narrative – rebalancing expectations of the roles public and private sectors play

Ch. 10 – Re-tooling: making technology innovation work for people and planet

• The need to re-tool

• Responsible Research and Innovation – an emerging approach to governance?

• Inclusive innovation – bringing in voices of the marginalised

• Learning from the open source movement

Part 3 - REBOOT

Ch. 11 – Reimagining technology as if people and planet mattered

• The need to reboot our relationship with technology

• Rebooting access – priorities and opportunities for change

• Rebooting use – priorities and opportunities for change

• Rebooting innovation – priorities and opportunities for change

• Technology as if people and planet mattered

Back Matter 

• Epilogue – Is Small Beautiful?

• Appendix 1: Failures to adhere to the precautionary principle

• Appendix 2 – List of diseases defined as ‘neglected’ in GFINDER 2011

• Bibliography

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The coming years will see an exponential increase in the proportion of elderly people in our society. This accelerated growth brings with it major challenges in relation to the sustainability of the system. There are different aspects where these changes will have a special incidence: health systems and their monitoring; the development of a framework in which the elderly can develop their daily lives satisfactorily; and in the design of intelligent cities adapted to the future sociodemographic profile. The discussion of the challenges faced, together with the current technological evolution, can show possible ways of meeting the challenges. There are different aspects where these changes will have a special incidence: health systems and their monitoring; the development of a framework in which the elderly can develop their daily lives satisfactorily; and in the design of intelligent cities adapted to the future sociodemographic profile. This special issue discusses various ways in which sustainable technologies can be applied to improve the lives of the elderly.

Six articles on the subject are featured in this volume, from a systematic review of the literature to the development of gamification and health improvement projects. The articles present suggestive proposals for the improvement of the lives of the elderly.

The volume is a resource of interest for the scientific community, since it shows different research gaps in the current state of the art. But it is also a document that can help social policy makers and people working in this domain to planning successful projects. 

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In this book, edited by Henrik Skaug Sætra, a range of experts address the potential of technology to both solve and exacerbate pressing global issues. 

Technological change is at the core of all major disruptions in human history, and revolutions, wars, and general development are regularly connected to some sort of technological change. However, not all development is beneficial. While technology has fueled great innovations and rapid development, the notion of sustainable development has gained prominence as we now experience serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.

This book examines whether technology can be used to fix the very problems caused by technology, as the various chapters examine different aspects related to how technology has brought us where we are today (which some will say is the best place humanity’s been at according to a range of metrics), and whether technology helps or hinders us in our efforts to solve the challenges we currently face. The issues discussed cover the three sustainability dimensions and include topics such as the materiality of AI, technology in education, AI for gender equality, innovation and the digital divide, and how technology relates to power, the political system, and capitalism. The chapters all build on the theoretical backdrop of technological change, sustainable development, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are actively used throughout this book, both to examine how these goals capture or overlook central elements of sustainable development, and also to facilitate and create a common framework of engagement between the chapters.

This book provides a novel combination of traditional theories that are explored through different case studies, providing the ground for a better understanding of how and when technology can – and cannot – be the enabler of sustainable development. It is thus an important resource for students of all disciplines, technologists, and those developing and applying new technologies. It is also a valuable resource for politicians and regulators attempting to harness the power of technology for good, while limiting its negative potential.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Funded by Østfold University College.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1 - Introduction: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-solutionism

Ch. 2 - Key Concepts: Technology and Sustainable Development

Ch. 3 - Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Solutions: Placing the Climate Emergency at the Center of AI Developments

Ch. 4 - Sustainable Climate Engineering Innovation and the Need for Accountability

Ch. 5 - Shinigami Eyes and Social Media Labeling as a Technology for Self-care

Ch. 6 - Lessons to Be Learnt? Education, Techno-solutionism, and Sustainable Development

Ch. 7 - Virtual Reality and Autism

Ch. 8 - The Technologically Sustained Digital Divide

Ch. 9 - Spot on SDG 5: Addressing Gender (In-)equality Within and With AI

Ch. 10 - A Legal Sustainability Approach to Align the Order of Rules and Actions in the Context of Digital Innovation

Ch. 11 - Governing Toward Sustainable Development: From a Path-Dependent Transition to a Disruptive One

Ch. 12 - Capitalism, Sustainability, and Democracy

Ch. 13 - Nudging Policy or Crowding It Out? Green Nudges as Ideational Technologies

Ch. 14 - The Fallacy of Disruptive Technologies and the Primacy of Politics: Sustainable Development Goals as an Example

Ch. 15 - Technology and the Distribution of Power

Ch. 16 - What Does Data Valuation Literature Tell Us About Methods and Dimensions? Implications for City Data Marketplaces

Ch. 17 - Techno-solutionism Facing Post-liberal Oligarchy

Ch. 18 - The Role of Technology in Alternatives to Growth-Based Sustainable Development

Ch. 19 - Conclusion: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-solutionism for Sustainable Development

Reviews:

"The widely celebrated benefits of technological development during the past two centuries are now overshadowed by evidence of grave troubles in society, economics, politics, and Earth’s climate, ones often delivered, alas, by the very same set of technical wonders. How are we to think about these astonishing contrasts? The writings gathered in this collection offer rigorous, insightful methods for exploring the major challenges that vex world society today. A treasure chest of theories and case histories, the book offers sustenance for all of those seeking fruitful alternatives."

--Langdon Winner, Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, author of "Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-control as a theme in political thought", and "The whale and the reactor: A search for limits in an age of high technology".

"An interesting collection of chapters that reflect on the role of technology vis-à-vis sustainable development. Highly relevant against the backdrop of the imminent risks created by climate change, and rightly critical of technosolutionist approaches, the contributions to this volume helpfully highlight the political aspects of this challenging conundrum. Not to be missed."

--Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor at the University of Vienna, author of "AI Ethics", "Green Leviathan", and "The Political Philosophy of AI."

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