Per Erik Boivie
Main aim
To contribute ideas and knowledge to companies and organisations that will lead to long-term sustainable development in working life, involving social, economic and ecological aspects.
Keywords
Humanism, acceptance of responsibility, creativity.
The business
Consultancy, writing articles, concept documents and books, participating in seminars and conferences as a support for the development of new ideas in working life. We also take part in global analysis and act as idea generators in projects that concern user and consumer power, particularly when inclined towards sustainable development. We also accept commissions in the area of user-oriented Web design.
BOIVIE UTVECKLING
MÄLARTORGET 13
111 27 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
MOBILE:+46 (0)70 441 29 01
pererik@boivie.se
WEBMASTER: jens@boivie.se


English translation: Peter Langsdale, Editronics Ltd.

Latest update: 15 July 2010

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Reading
Boivie, Per Erik: GLOBAL STANDARD - how computer displays worldwide got the TCO logo. 224 pages, ISBN 978- 91-85343-43-0, Premiss Förlag 2007.
Boivie, Per Erik: TCO labelling of visual display units - what does it mean for users and the environment? Download pdf 7 pages, April 2007.
Literature connected to the book "GLOBAL STANDARD - how computer displays worldwide got the TCO logo"
Nordström, Gunni: The Invisible Disease - The Dangers of Environmental Illness caused by Electromagnetic Fields an Chemical Emissions, O Books, Hants UK 2004
Boivie, Per Erik: User - driven certification of computer displays - from visions and innovation to global standard, paper to workshop "Sustainability Impact Assessment of Trade Agreements and New Approaches to Governance" Center for Philosophy of Law Catholic University of Louvain, Belgien, 27-28 March 2003.
Bødker Susanne, Ehn Pelle, Sjögren Dan & Sundblad Yngve (2000): Co-operative Design - perspectives on 20 years with "the Scandinavian IT Design Model", Keynote presentation,  Proceedings of NordiCHI 2000, Stockholm, October 2000.
DeMatteo Bob: Terminal shock, NC Press Limited, Toronto 1986.
Ericsson Information Systems: "Ergonomic Principles in office automation - State of the art reports and guidelines in the office environment", Stockholm 1983.
Invest in Sweden Agency (ISA): Invest in Sweden - Information Technology, 1997.
Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Work With Display Units, WWDU 2002. Page 490-492 IT product requirements and certification from the users' perspective: contributor.- World Wide Work, Berchtesgaden, May 22-25 2002., Ergonomic Institut für Arbeits- und Sozialforschung, Berlin 2002
Voluntary Environmental Agreements - Process, Practice and Future Use: contains 30 practical examples of voluntary agreements from all over the world. One of these "A new trade union role in environmental agreements: a driving force for sustainable development" was written by Per Erik Boivie and covers the TCO labelling of computer displays. Greenleaf Publishing UK 2002
Systems and Programmes in marketing and procurement: contributor of the chapters on "Marketing Office Equipment - the TCO Labelling Scheme" and "Marketing Management Systems - the 6E Management Scheme". EU Paper, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Brussels 2000.
The European Trade Union Technical Bureau for Health and Safety (TUTB). Working with VDUs - The implementation of Directive 90/270/EEC in Sweden and Germany: contributor of the chapter "New union strategy for influencing design of user-friendly, environmentally appropriate computer hardware". Brussels, 1999.
Paper by Hildebrandt, Eckart et al.,. Towards a Sustainable Worklife - Building Social Capacity - European Approaches: contributor of the chapter "Enviro-innovative processes initialised by unions and other social actors - with a focus on TCO eco-labels". Edition sigma Berlin, 2001
Report by Ernst Hollander, part of a European research project financed by the EU Commission DG XIII's innovation programme, Stockholm 1999. TCO '92, '95: contributor.
Chronicle, November issue 2000; www.itsweden.com. A mobile phone race has started; author.
Walldius Åke, Sundblad Yngve, Bengtsson Lars, Lind Torbjörn & Sandblad Bengt (2004): User-driven quality certification of workplace software - the UsersAward experience. Proceedings of WWCS (Work with Computer Systems) conference, Kuala Lumpur, June 2004.
TCO reports
Screen Checker, TCO , 1986.
Der Bildschirmprüfer - zur kontrolle von Bildschirmen, Textverarbeitern und Personalcomputern (PC), 1986
Software Checker, TCO, 1990.
Screen Facts - an information summary for the TCO Screen Checker, TCO, 1991.
Der Bildschirm - eine Informationszusammenfassung über den TCO Bildschirmprüfer, TCO 1992.
The way to 6E - a practical model for sustainable workplaces, 64 pages, TCO 1997.