Sustainable Development requires Information Development
Climate change is increasingly a mainstream issue. There is growing momentum to address the issue at a number of levels, in the corporate sector, with private citizens and within government. There is,...
View Articleopen-sustainability
One of the topics I have been writing about for a while is the concept of open-sustainability. open-sustainability is an approach that applies-information centric techniques to solve challenges related...
View ArticleOpenCCS: Applying lessons from MIKE2.0
So I’ve been REALLY bad about contributing to MIKE2.0 this past year and its taken a 3-hour train ride in the UK to get me writing again. Now is a good time for an update though as I’m fresh off a...
View ArticleConsulting Red Flags: Ten tips from the NBA to help a customer of consulting...
The NBA season is finally mercifully officially over although as a Warriors fan, it was over long ago. Congratulations to the Miami Heat on winning the championship. I couldn’t help but think of the...
View ArticleSemantic Notations
In a previous entry about the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)’s RDF PROVenance Ontology, I mentioned that it includes a notation aimed at human consumption — wow, I thought, that’s a completely new...
View ArticleA Tale of 30 Nuclear Plants
In 2012 the New York Times commissioned a study showing that worldwide, server farms’ energy use is equivalent to 30 nuclear power plants, roughly 2 percent of all electricity used. In fact, the report...
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