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>From: "Christoph Becker" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 10:24:30 AM
>Subject: Fellowship in Digital Sustainability at the Digital Curation
>Institute in Toronto
>
>The Digital Curation Institute at the University of Toronto is calling
>for 
>applications<http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/digitalsust
>ainabilityfellowship2016.pdf> for a funded Fellowship under the name of
>digital sustainability. Applications are due by April 20, 2016 (see
>below).
>This is the inaugural year of the 7-year Fellowship program.
>
>Sustainability - the capacity to endure - has become a crucial concern of
>our data-intensive society. It needs to be addressed jointly across
>multiple disciplines and perspectives around information, computing,
>technology and society. A very abstract concept at first, sustainability
>brings central questions in our information society to the fore. It urges
>us to take a longer-term perspective on the entanglement of social,
>cultural, and technical questions in systems design and strive to
>simultaneously advance environmental, social, economic, individual, and
>technical goals. These perspectives don't emerge from incremental
>technical progress.
>The term "digital sustainability" aims to scope this fellowship in an
>intentionally broad sense that unites key concerns of interest for the
>DCI and offers connections to many disciplinary perspectives.
>The capacity of digital resources to endure is a key focus of digital
>curation activities. At the same time,  sustainability has become a
>central challenge in the design
><http://sustainabilitydesign.org/karlskrona-manifesto/> of information
>systems and software-intensive systems in general, where it draws our
>attention to the capacity of communities, socio-technical systems,
>processes, or ecosystems to endure.
>Curation activities in turn are crucial for data-intensive research in
>the environmental sciences, and equally are at the heart of understanding
>social and economic sustainability.
>
>For this Fellowship, we are seeking a curious individual who pursues
>creative friction and synergies across disciplinary boundaries,
>especially those between the humanities, social sciences, natural
>sciences and engineering, design, computing and technology.
>The Fellowship will be awarded on a yearly basis. It can be offered to an
>academic faculty member (at any level), adjunct instructor, industry
>professional, graduate student, or postdoctoral fellow. Each of the
>categories will be given equal consideration. Only one Fellowship will be
>awarded each year.
>
>Details are in the call at http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/?p=1232!
>
>Best regards,
>Christoph Becker
>
>
>Prof Christoph Becker
>Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
>Director, Digital Curation Institute, University of Toronto
>Senior Scientist, Vienna University of Technology
>http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca
>http://benchmark-dp.org
>https://twitter.com/ChriBecker
>-- 
>Anne J. Gilliland, Ph.D.
>Professor, Department of Information Studies
>Director, Center for Information as Evidence
>212 GSE&IS Building
>University of California Los Angeles
>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
>URL: http://www.dunrunda.co/
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