OPEN SUSTAINABILITY als Begriff mit aufnehmen?

OPEN SUSTAINABILITY refers to the use of open cultural and technical approaches towards sustainable outcomes.

The concept examines how open source culture, technology and methods contribute to all three dimensions of sustainability — ecological, economic and social.

It is concerned with how openness as a philosophy is instrumental to sustainability through the acceleration of transparent and collaborative innovation. Within this study, this concept is dealt with in detail, with a particular focus on environmental sustainability.

Previous definitions of open sustainability are broadly focused on open innovation within the context of sustainable development, often purely from an internal corporate perspective.3

We consider open source as an essential component of transparent and collaborative innovation, therefore, provide a more narrow definition that explicitly embodies open source culture and methods, without restricting its application to any one actor.

Open source appropriate technology (OSAT), coined by the Open Design movement, is another related term. Appropriate technology — considered to be largely sustainable, small and appropriate — is within the scope of open sustainability. However, open sustainability is not prescriptive concerning the design specifications or implementation details of technologies. Instead, it defines methods and guiding principles from which similar technological attributes can emerge.

(aus [2] Augspurger, Tobias, Josh Hopkins, Eirini Malliaraki, und Dan Brown. „The Open Source Sustainability Ecosystem“. [object Object], 7. August 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10426773.)