Coral Calero

Christoph Becker, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Leticia Duboc et al.

Sustainability is a central concern for our society, and software systems increasingly play a central role in it. As designers of software technology, we cause change and are responsible for the effects of our design choices. We recognize that there is a rapidly increasing awareness of the fundamental need and desire for a more sustainable world, and there is a lot of genuine goodwill. However, this alone will be ineffective unless we come to understand and address our persistent misperceptions. The Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainability Design aims to initiate a much needed conversation in and beyond the software community by highlighting such perceptions and proposing a set of fundamental principles for sustainability design.

Coral Calero, M. Angeles Moraga, Manuel F. Bertoa

The necessity to adapt current products and services into a way of working environmentally friendly is already a social and economic demand. Although the GreenIT can be considered a mature discipline, software sustainability, both in its process and its use, has not begun to be a topic of interest until the last few years. In this sense we think is fundamental to define what we consider that is software sustainability and how to evaluate it properly.