The Karlskrona Manifesto

The Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainability Design
FoundedAugust 2014
Key people
Christoph Becker
Ruzanna Chitchyan
Leticia Duboc
Steve Easterbrook
Martin Mahaux
Birgit Penzenstadler
Guillermo Rodríguez-Navas
Camille Salinesi
Norbert Seyff
Colin C. Venters

The Karlskrona Manifesto[1] for sustainability design in software was created as an output of the Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy) held in Karlskrona, Sweden, co-located with the 22nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'14). The manifesto arose from a suggestion in the paper by Christoph Becker, "Sustainability and Longevity: Two Sides of the Same Quality?" that sustainability is a common ground for several disciplines related to software, but that this commonality had not been mapped out and made explicit and that a focal point of reference would be beneficial.

The Karlskrona Manifesto can be split into nine principles:

  1. Sustainability is never isolated and can also be looked at globally.
  2. Sustainability has multiple dimensions, so it is necessary to define which dimension is being looked at during analysis.
  3. Sustainability is multidisciplinary and requires multiple perspectives.
  4. When looking at sustainability, this should be done independently of the focus of the system.
  5. Sustainability can be assessed by the system itself and how the system fits into the larger system.
  6. System status at different levels of usage is important for responsible decisions to be made with sustainable design.
  7. Identify the most effective way to be sustainable over alternative options at different levels to ensure the most sustainable choice is being made.
  8. The current generation shouldn't be compromised, however meeting the needs of the future generations is necessary when evaluating the most sustainable choice.
  9. Assessing software over a long term and consider decisions with this in mind.

These principles were later made into a catalogue to support software sustainable design.[2]

Since publication, the authors of The Karlskrona Manifesto adapted its principles into The Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF), a tool for sustainable design of software products and designs. The tool supports identification of the potential effects of software and IT systems on sustainability in five dimensions: economic, environmental, individual, social, and technical. As of 2022, they have advocated for its use to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.[3]

References

  1. ^ Becker, Christoph; Chitchyan, Ruzanna; Duboc, Leticia; Easterbrook, Steve; Penzenstadler, Birgit; Seyff, Norbert; Venters, Colin C. (2015). "Sustainability Design and Software: The Karlskrona Manifesto" (PDF). 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. pp. 467–476. doi:10.1109/ICSE.2015.179. ISBN 9781479919345. S2CID 14777274.
  2. ^ Oyedeji, Shola; Seffah, Ahmed; Penzenstadler, Birgit (July 2018). "A Catalogue Supporting Software Sustainability Design". Sustainability. 10 (7): 2296. doi:10.3390/su10072296. ISSN 2071-1050.
  3. ^ Seyff, Norbert; Betz, Stefanie; Lammert, Dominic; Porras, Jari; Duboc, Leticia; Brooks, Ian; Chitchyan, Ruzanna; Venters, Colin; Penzenstadler, Birgit (2022). "Transforming our World through Software: Mapping the Sustainability Awareness Framework to the UN Sustainable Development Goals:". Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications: 417–425. doi:10.5220/0011063200003176. ISBN 978-989-758-568-5.


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