To open the season of Digital Cleanup Day activities, Ekologi brez meja, our Let’s Do It member organisation in Slovenia, hosted a conference on the environmental footprint of computing and the concept of digital sufficiency. The event, titled ‘Data = Waste?’, took place on Tuesday 6 February in Ljubljana and was organised as part of the wide-reaching 'Clean Up Slovenia's Digital Waste' initiative.

Digital Cleanup Day (DCD) is a day dedicated to cleaning up our digital lives, just like we clean up our physical environment on World Cleanup Day (WCD). This year’s digital campaign officially took place on Saturday 16 March, although registration of results remained open until May to allow business organisations to complete their CSR- & ESG-related activities in connection with DCD.

The results from 2024’s campaign have pushed overall registration past the 1 million mark, underlining the trend of increasing interest in the campaigns’ related activities.

In this fast-paced, digital era, where an avalanche of information overwhelms us daily, it is proving increasingly challenging for many of us to keep our productivity level and not be constantly distracted.

‍While some turn to new apps and tools for time tracking, productivity, and task management when trying to organize this chaos, an often-overlooked solution lies in the simplicity of decluttering your digital space in the first place.

Let’s find out what benefits organizing your digital life can offer, and how we can keep it neat and tidy.

What harm can an email cause? It’s just a few words, really-really important words (as every sender thinks about their email) that need only a couple of minutes of a receiver’s attention. Surely this doesn’t influence the company’s profit! Neither does it influence the environment, since it’s just electronic!

However, everything is not so simple. Let’s look closely at each statement and find out how we can make our work communication more efficient and sustainable.