7 Ways To Make Data More Sustainable
Will data ever be truly sustainable? In response to Wired.co.uk’s recent article: Can Consumer Tech Ever Really Be Sustainable? Slingshot’s team and community look at whether the data that comes from consumer tech could be sustainable, talking sustainable tech design and the move towards eradicating dark data… Wired highlighted that the world is producing 53.6 million metric tonnes of e-waste per year […]
Dark Data – what is it… and should we be scared?
What is Dark Data? Dark Data is the data, held by organisations and individuals, which is not used to derive insights or lead decision making. Gartner defines this in a similar way, “information assets organisations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes”. An everyday example of this, on […]
Leeds tech start-up is founding member of Responsible Computing organisation
Slingshot Simulations, a Leeds-based tech pioneer of Digital Twin Technology, is one of the first organisations to join the Responsible Computing initiative – a consortium designed to innovate technology for sustainable development in infrastructure, code, and social impact. Dell Technologies and the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) were the first primary members of Responsible Computing, […]