John Capgrave e Margery Kempe a Roma. Immagini della città a confronto

The study compares the images of the city of Rome emerging from two nearly coeval beautiful works by two important literary figures both native of King's Lynn, Norfolk: the mystic Margery Kempe and the Augustinian friar John Capgrave. While belonging to the genre of travel literature, The Book of Margery Kempe does not contain any description of the places visited by the author, but focuses on her mystical experiences, her actions and her relations with others. As the rest of the work, also the chapters describing her pilgrimage to and stay in Rome are therefore populated by numerous figures belonging to the author’s contemporaneity. Ye Solace of Pilgrimes is instead characterized by the typical structure and contents of medieval guides of Rome at their last stage of processing and transmits an image of the city which is strictly connected to its historical and mythical past. The description of medieval Rome and its inhabitants is therefore completely missing. Though conveying very different images of the city, the two works show a profound complementarity: however partial and different from each other they might be, by juxtaposing, or, better, superimposing the two images, one can get a picture of Fifteenth-Century Rome which turns out to be more vivid and, therefore, closer to reality

How organisations can assess and improve their green ICT activities in a standard and efficient way

This study demonstrates how a maturity model on Green ICT can help organisations improve themselves and become more environmental sustainable in a standard and efficient manner. For this we have used the SURF Green ICT Maturity Model and facilitated the use of this model in four organisations. These organisations participated in a maturity scan, evaluation session to discuss the results of the scan and a questionnaire on the use of the model. This field study showed that individual participants were very positive about the use of such a model and that it provided inspiration for improvement, both to reduce the environmental impact of ICT as well as to use ICT as an green solution for other business processes

Green ICT Research and Challenges

Green ICT is a young and pioneering field. Therefore, as often pointed out in the literature, studies evaluating the main research activities and the general direction of this new and continuously evolving research field are scarce and often incomplete. This study presents a quantitative analysis, through a systematic literature review, of the main activities, trends and issues that can be found in the Green ICT literature. The research reports the analysis of various characteristics of the studies gathered for this review, such as addressed type of effect and year of publication. It also led to the identification of the most recurrent issues of the research and development of Green ICT strategies. Finally, this study proposes a new category of effect (people awareness) that, even if often addressed by the field, is not included in current Green ICT frameworks