The original article is posted in French on greenit.fr Un projet open source pour le développement durable

Using Google translate the article in English:

An open source project for sustainability

Advances in information technology have enabled many communities to emerge and work together to solve problems both locally and internationally. The technology of “Web 2.0″ accentuate this phenomenon. Unfortunately, the inefficiency of our systems and processes can lead to many waste and pollution.

Based on this observation, Open Sustainability provides a framework for sustainable data governance (Sustainability Governance Framework) to integrate sustainability at the heart of business practices. Collaborative open source project gathers around a wiki an active community that shares a main tenet: the importance of information management to meet the complex challenges of sustainable development. Indeed, improved data management enables organizations to better understand and assess the environmental and social impact of their decisions. Similarly, better knowledge sharing will promote the capitalization of experience. It is also to encourage an open and transparent to companies and especially publishers and solution integration, sustainable development subject to politicization and growing investment …

The method under development, will be based on FISDev, a collaborative web tool open source, and MIKE2.0, an open source framework for knowledge management developed by BearingPoint. Cut into 5 phases, the approach is comprehensive. She is already rich in content, offers many best practices and can be integrated with other methodologies.

Posted by Angelam, filed under sustainability. Date: February 20, 2010, 1:27 am | 3 Comments »

3 Responses

1. Laurent Says:
   February 25th, 2010 at 1:57 pm

   i have discovered the Open Sustainability website with this article on greenit.fr

   Now i have a simple question, what are the first pages to translate in the wiki ?

2. Sean.mcclowry Says:
   February 26th, 2010 at 6:35 am

   Hi Laurent – thanks for the offer to help. We are working on getting a few technical issues resolved – this will allow us to have articles in multiple languages. It would be great to get you helping in translating some articles.
   Sean

3. Angelam Says:
   February 26th, 2010 at 7:33 am

   Thanks so much Laurent! A good page to start on is http://www.open-sustainability.org/wiki/What_is_open-sustainability

   Then move onto http://www.open-sustainability.org/wiki/The_5_Phases_of_an_open-sustainability_program

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