The center’s research and innovation activities are focused on value creation for the ICT industry including organizations which actively use digitalization to ensure sustainable operations.  

The center’s research projects portfolio will be related to digitalization in different domains. They will be based on concrete use-cases from partners as well as on related research challenges formulated by the NTNU academic team. 

Research questions

Examples of more concrete research questions: 

• There is a limitation of available resources to develop, operate and evolve the software base. How to manage this in a way not overexploiting the available resources? ​
• How to ensure that sustainability aspects are taken into account in functionality decision in agile development, when a large part of society is potential stakeholders?  ​
• How to develop and maintain sustainability requirements ?  ​
• How to support LCA (life-cycle analysis) for software products and systems, coordinated with LCA analysis of physical products (that more and more include software as part of the total product)?  ​
• How to capture necessary data for following up sustainability goals in a sustainable and privacy-preserving manner ?​
• Understand and address the gender imbalance from the point of view of technology to identify and establish those aspects that must be considered to achieve a more inclusive and fair technology ​
• Understand and address geographical differences that affect egalitarian and inclusive processes in and by technology to propose new ways of understanding and collaboration that remove these barriers ​
• Ethical issue, e.g. how algorthms and AI influence human activity, and the undemocratic power of large technology providers. ​
• Negative structural effects are hard to foresee and ensure to avoid on individual projects.  How to inform and support policy makers to develop and enforce policies that ensure sustainability on the structural level?