Sustainability concepts for digital research infrastructures developed through ground-level stakeholder empowerment
Florian Ahrens, Dawn Geatches, Niall McCarroll, Justin Buck, Alvaro, Lorenzo-Lopez, Hossein Keshtkar, Nadine Fayyad, Hamidreza Hassanloo, Danae, Manika

TL;DR
This paper explores how engaging ground-level stakeholders through workshops can foster sustainable practices in digital research infrastructures, emphasizing community-driven change for energy and resource efficiency.
Contribution
It introduces a workshop-based method for stakeholder empowerment to co-create sustainable transition concepts in digital research infrastructures.
Findings
Stakeholder engagement via workshops promotes bottom-up climate action.
Guided, expert-integrated workshops effectively define sustainability challenges.
Community-driven approaches can complement top-down policies for sustainability.
Abstract
The UK Research and Innovation Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) needs to operate sustainably in the future, encompassing its use of energy and resources, and embedded computer hardware carbon emissions. Transition concepts towards less unsustainable operations will inform the future design and operations of DRI. A problem remains that, while the skills and knowledge for solving net zero challenges already exist within the UK's DRI community, the mechanisms for sharing them and enabling behavior change are missing. Without adopting community-driven approaches, individual stakeholders may feel isolated and uncertain about how to play their role in the transition. A research programme was funded to give voice to the ground-level stakeholders of the DRI ecosystem for the co-creation of carbon downshift concepts. This article presents the results of the programme, with the goal to…
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TopicsUniversity-Industry-Government Innovation Models
