The ELCC is Egypt's leading e-learning organization that developed a plan to implement green ICT practices. It aims to reduce the environmental impact of ICT through more efficient operations, e-learning courses on green topics, and changing staff behaviors. Key initiatives included optimizing servers and cooling in the data center, enabling remote work and virtual meetings to reduce travel, setting energy saving settings for devices, and training staff on sustainability best practices. Evaluating the results, ELCC found improvements in operational efficiency, cost savings, and reduced power consumption from its green ICT efforts.
IT can both contribute to sustainability problems but also provide solutions. As a potential problem, producing and disposing of hardware uses natural resources and energy, and can release pollutants. However, IT also enables more efficient energy use, reduces carbon emissions through telecommuting and paperless billing, optimizes transportation and logistics, and aids construction and facilities management. With initiatives like power management, data integration, and encouraging telework, companies can lower costs and environmental impact while gaining a competitive advantage through responsible leadership.
This presentation discusses green information technology (GIT) and how organizations can adopt more environmentally sustainable IT practices. It defines key terms like green IT, e-waste, and global warming. The goals of green IT are outlined as reducing energy consumption, proper disposal and recycling, green design and manufacturing. Basic tips are provided like power management settings, reducing paper usage, and virtualization. Pakistan is said to lack skills and compliance in this area. The benefits mentioned are increased efficiency, cost savings, and improved reputation through corporate social responsibility. The first step is recommended to be a green IT audit.
Green IT refers to environmentally sustainable computing that aims to reduce the environmental impact of IT. There are four roads to Green IT: green design, green manufacturing, green use, and green disposal. Issues around Green IT include the importance of energy efficiency in purchasing decisions and developing a Green IT strategy. An action plan involves long-term and short-term strategies, including analyzing political, economic, technological, and social factors. The strategy involves steps of greening IT itself, greening through using IT, and developing new green businesses using IT technologies. Practices include promoting energy efficient products, virtualization, green data centers, and using IT to enable remote work, carbon monitoring, and alternative energies.
The document discusses green IT, which aims to minimize the negative environmental impacts of IT and use IT to address environmental issues. It describes green IT concepts like reducing waste, improving energy efficiency through practices like power management, and green IT purchasing. Various practical applications are outlined, such as product longevity, virtualization, and data center optimization. The advantages of green IT include reducing carbon emissions and energy costs, increasing data center cooling efficiency, and reducing server space needs through virtualization.
The next hope of future is a green computingahmad satar
Green IT (Information Technology) or Green Technology refers to the durable computing of the environment which means eco-friendly use of computers, and it’s related resources.
An Improvement in Power Management in green Computing using Neural NetworksIOSR Journals
This document summarizes previous work on green computing and power management techniques using neural networks. It proposes a new technique using neural networks and dynamic clustering for energy conservation in green computing. Previous approaches focused on virtualization, power management, material recycling, and algorithms for efficient routing and clustering. The proposed technique would use a neural network's learning capabilities combined with dynamic clustering to improve energy efficiency. It was implemented in a simulation and results were presented graphically. The goal is to reduce resource consumption and electronic waste through more efficient power management.
Green IT refers to environmentally sustainable IT practices that can help reduce operating costs and lessen environmental impact. However, Green IT initiatives often fail due to limited scope, focusing only on reducing energy usage in data centers and desktops without a comprehensive corporate approach. Some initiatives are accused of "green-washing" by focusing more on advertising sustainability efforts than actual energy reduction. Companies also misunderstand Green IT objectives and rush into projects without considering implications. When done properly with an expanded scope, alignment with corporate strategies, and defined metrics, Green IT can generate cost savings, maximize asset returns, and gain positive public recognition for companies.
IT can both contribute to sustainability problems but also provide solutions. As a potential problem, producing and disposing of hardware uses natural resources and energy, and can release pollutants. However, IT also enables more efficient energy use, reduces carbon emissions through telecommuting and paperless billing, optimizes transportation and logistics, and aids construction and facilities management. With initiatives like power management, data integration, and encouraging telework, companies can lower costs and environmental impact while gaining a competitive advantage through responsible leadership.
This presentation discusses green information technology (GIT) and how organizations can adopt more environmentally sustainable IT practices. It defines key terms like green IT, e-waste, and global warming. The goals of green IT are outlined as reducing energy consumption, proper disposal and recycling, green design and manufacturing. Basic tips are provided like power management settings, reducing paper usage, and virtualization. Pakistan is said to lack skills and compliance in this area. The benefits mentioned are increased efficiency, cost savings, and improved reputation through corporate social responsibility. The first step is recommended to be a green IT audit.
Green IT refers to environmentally sustainable computing that aims to reduce the environmental impact of IT. There are four roads to Green IT: green design, green manufacturing, green use, and green disposal. Issues around Green IT include the importance of energy efficiency in purchasing decisions and developing a Green IT strategy. An action plan involves long-term and short-term strategies, including analyzing political, economic, technological, and social factors. The strategy involves steps of greening IT itself, greening through using IT, and developing new green businesses using IT technologies. Practices include promoting energy efficient products, virtualization, green data centers, and using IT to enable remote work, carbon monitoring, and alternative energies.
The document discusses green IT, which aims to minimize the negative environmental impacts of IT and use IT to address environmental issues. It describes green IT concepts like reducing waste, improving energy efficiency through practices like power management, and green IT purchasing. Various practical applications are outlined, such as product longevity, virtualization, and data center optimization. The advantages of green IT include reducing carbon emissions and energy costs, increasing data center cooling efficiency, and reducing server space needs through virtualization.
The next hope of future is a green computingahmad satar
Green IT (Information Technology) or Green Technology refers to the durable computing of the environment which means eco-friendly use of computers, and it’s related resources.
An Improvement in Power Management in green Computing using Neural NetworksIOSR Journals
This document summarizes previous work on green computing and power management techniques using neural networks. It proposes a new technique using neural networks and dynamic clustering for energy conservation in green computing. Previous approaches focused on virtualization, power management, material recycling, and algorithms for efficient routing and clustering. The proposed technique would use a neural network's learning capabilities combined with dynamic clustering to improve energy efficiency. It was implemented in a simulation and results were presented graphically. The goal is to reduce resource consumption and electronic waste through more efficient power management.
Green IT refers to environmentally sustainable IT practices that can help reduce operating costs and lessen environmental impact. However, Green IT initiatives often fail due to limited scope, focusing only on reducing energy usage in data centers and desktops without a comprehensive corporate approach. Some initiatives are accused of "green-washing" by focusing more on advertising sustainability efforts than actual energy reduction. Companies also misunderstand Green IT objectives and rush into projects without considering implications. When done properly with an expanded scope, alignment with corporate strategies, and defined metrics, Green IT can generate cost savings, maximize asset returns, and gain positive public recognition for companies.
Evolution of green ict implementation in education sector a study of developedIAEME Publication
This document summarizes a research paper on the evolution of green ICT implementation in education sectors of developed and developing countries. It discusses the environmental impacts of ICT usage and the need for green ICT practices in educational institutions. The document then reviews how green ICT has developed in different countries and outlines the benefits of green ICT implementation for education institutions, such as minimizing energy consumption, carbon footprint, waste, and costs.
The document discusses Green-IT governance and outlines several key points:
1) There is increasing environmental pressure and external drivers like regulations that are pushing for improved Green-IT governance.
2) Green-IT governance can help organizations improve decision making, risk mitigation, and sustainability across financial, legal and environmental dimensions.
3) Many standards, frameworks and reporting requirements have been established globally and nationally to promote Green-IT practices and transparency around areas like carbon emissions and energy management.
This document discusses green ICT practices at educational institutions in Maharashtra, India. It begins with background on the growth of ICT usage and resulting environmental impacts. It then reviews concepts of green ICT and the Maharashtra government's green IT policy. The paper analyzes green ICT practices implemented at educational institutions in Maharashtra, such as IT equipment recycling, printer consolidation, and power management. It finds benefits include reduced energy costs, smaller carbon footprint and hazardous waste, and compliance with regulations. The document concludes green ICT can help educational institutions operate sustainably while saving costs and resources.
This document discusses green computing, including its origins, advantages, and pathways. It began in 1992 with Energy Star, which promoted energy efficiency. Green computing aims to reduce environmental impacts and costs through energy efficiency, reducing waste, and recycling electronics. It allows cost savings, uses less resources, and lessens health risks from toxic materials. Sri Lanka has e-waste collection centers and standards to minimize impacts. The future of green computing involves virtualization, more energy savings, eco-friendly materials, and increased recycling.
Green computing, also known as green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing practices that can help conserve energy, reduce pollution, and lessen the environmental impact of computing. Some key tactics for green computing include using power management settings, purchasing energy efficient hardware, replacing paper systems with online communication, and properly disposing of or recycling electronics through reuse, refurbishment, or formal e-waste recycling programs. While green computing may require initial investments, it provides long term cost savings through reduced energy usage and aligns with environmental stewardship.
Green-ict participated to a morning workshop on the subject of Green-IT. Three presentations have illustrated the Green-IT concept : one on Governance, another on Website Optimization and a last one on Project Management.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Ian Brooks - University of the West of EnglandGo Green
This document summarizes a presentation about how information technology (IT) can both help and hinder business sustainability efforts. It discusses how the IT industry contributes to climate change and various social and environmental issues through its large carbon footprint and issues in supply chains. However, IT also presents opportunities to reduce emissions by 20% through applications like smart grids and telecommuting. The presentation encourages businesses to manage IT sustainability issues and leverage IT's potential to support sustainability goals in areas like operations and procurement.
Barney Smith is the programme director of Perform Green, which provides services related to sustainable IT. The document discusses:
1) The case for green IT in business, including reasons like regulation, financial savings, talent management, and brand reputation.
2) Aspects to consider in green IT like power usage of devices, decommissioning equipment, print optimization, virtualization, and data center efficiency.
3) Examples of green IT initiatives like reducing employee printing, transitioning to laptops and flexible working, raising thermostats in data centers, and using video conferencing to reduce travel costs and emissions.
Technologies, Strategies And Algorithm In Green Computing – Solution To Energ...IJERA Editor
A safe and non-polluted environment is the basic need of a living being. But today the situation is getting changed. Our environment is getting polluted day by day at a very high rate. The use of computing devices plays a vital role in harmfulness of environment. To reduce these harmful impacts the concept of Green Computing must be implemented. In this research paper, we includes some technologies, strategies and algorithm which are used for the implementation of green computing. The main reason is the awareness of a common user. If a common user is getting aware about the harmful impacts of use of computing devices over environment and takes some steps at own level to reduce electricity, the concept of green computing will be implemented.
This document discusses the environmental impacts of datacenters and the need for more sustainable practices. It notes that datacenter energy usage and associated costs are rising rapidly as more equipment is needed to support modern technologies and applications. Two major issues are energy inefficiency and toxic e-waste from outdated equipment. The document examines steps some companies like Symantec are taking to reduce their carbon footprint through consolidation, efficiency programs, and LEED certification. However, it also discusses barriers like a lack of accountability for energy costs and a focus on redundancy over sustainability. Overall, it argues for improved monitoring, equipment management, and use of renewable energy to help datacenters transition to more environmentally friendly operations.
This document summarizes research from approximately 350 organizations across Europe on their energy efficiency and green ICT practices. The research found that energy efficient policies are lacking in most businesses, and a large proportion do not train employees on energy efficiency. Commonly used equipment like printers are often not shared or optimized for energy savings. While some countries and micro organizations have better implementation of green practices, overall monitoring of energy consumption and application of standards is lacking across many European organizations. The conclusions recommend developing best practices, increasing education for organizations, and expanding monitoring beyond just IT departments.
This document proposes a "Consolidate, Virtualize and Energize" project to reduce energy consumption and costs across the 32 colleges and universities in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system through server virtualization, reducing underutilized computer terminals, incorporating alternative energy sources, expanding online classes, and educating staff on green technologies. The project aims to reduce energy usage by 5% in the first phase and 10% upon completion in 2016. Key steps include consolidating data centers, implementing virtualization, purchasing energy efficient equipment, and raising awareness of energy consumption among students, faculty and staff.
The document discusses Mitel's approach to becoming more sustainable and environmentally friendly. It outlines how Mitel solutions can help customers reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions through teleworking, virtual meetings, centralized administration of sites, and lower power IP phones and communication systems. The document also discusses Mitel's own sustainability efforts, which include being a founding member of the Climate Registry, having ISO 14001 certification, and programs to reduce corporate travel, waste and emissions.
Green computing is the next wave in computing and aims to reduce the environmental impact of computers and their use. It helps reduce pollution and global warming by using less electricity and creating less toxic waste. Various approaches to green computing include improving energy efficiency through practices like power management, virtualization, and algorithmic efficiency. The advantages of green technology include energy savings, environmental friendliness and cost effectiveness over time, while disadvantages include higher initial costs and limited availability.
This document defines green computing and discusses its importance. Green computing aims to reduce the environmental impact of computing through more efficient use of resources and responsible disposal of electronic waste. It involves strategies like power management, using energy efficient hardware, recycling electronics, and reducing paper usage. While green computing requires initial costs, it provides long term benefits like financial savings, energy efficiency and environmental protection. The document emphasizes that adopting green computing practices is important for a sustainable future.
The document discusses green computing and its importance. It describes green computing as minimizing the carbon footprint of computing through efficient resource use. It outlines some approaches like using eco-friendly materials in manufacturing and more energy efficient displays. It also discusses challenges like increasing data center energy needs and electronic waste disposal. The future of green computing is explored through concepts like solar-powered and recyclable paper laptops. The conclusion emphasizes that green computing requires efforts from both the IT industry and governments to further reduce energy consumption and move towards more sustainable practices.
The document summarizes Oracle's commitments and initiatives related to environmental sustainability. It discusses Oracle's participation in programs like the EPA Climate Leaders program and its conservation efforts. It then outlines Oracle's philosophy of reducing, reusing and recycling. The document highlights Oracle's green data center projects and how it empowers customers with applications to measure and reduce their environmental impact.
The document discusses the concept of green computing, which aims to minimize the environmental impact of computers and electronic devices through efficient and sustainable use, design, manufacturing, and disposal. It outlines the goals of green computing such as reducing hazardous materials and promoting recyclability, and provides statistics on e-waste generation as well as individual practices like power management and recycling to support green computing. The conclusion emphasizes that green computing helps promote an eco-friendly environment while also reducing costs and conserving energy.
Entrepreneurship Empowerment Symposium - Session 01: Promoting small medium business development through the strategic use of ICT by Pia Ault the director of strategy and business development at Cisco Systems Inc.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Evolution of green ict implementation in education sector a study of developedIAEME Publication
This document summarizes a research paper on the evolution of green ICT implementation in education sectors of developed and developing countries. It discusses the environmental impacts of ICT usage and the need for green ICT practices in educational institutions. The document then reviews how green ICT has developed in different countries and outlines the benefits of green ICT implementation for education institutions, such as minimizing energy consumption, carbon footprint, waste, and costs.
The document discusses Green-IT governance and outlines several key points:
1) There is increasing environmental pressure and external drivers like regulations that are pushing for improved Green-IT governance.
2) Green-IT governance can help organizations improve decision making, risk mitigation, and sustainability across financial, legal and environmental dimensions.
3) Many standards, frameworks and reporting requirements have been established globally and nationally to promote Green-IT practices and transparency around areas like carbon emissions and energy management.
This document discusses green ICT practices at educational institutions in Maharashtra, India. It begins with background on the growth of ICT usage and resulting environmental impacts. It then reviews concepts of green ICT and the Maharashtra government's green IT policy. The paper analyzes green ICT practices implemented at educational institutions in Maharashtra, such as IT equipment recycling, printer consolidation, and power management. It finds benefits include reduced energy costs, smaller carbon footprint and hazardous waste, and compliance with regulations. The document concludes green ICT can help educational institutions operate sustainably while saving costs and resources.
This document discusses green computing, including its origins, advantages, and pathways. It began in 1992 with Energy Star, which promoted energy efficiency. Green computing aims to reduce environmental impacts and costs through energy efficiency, reducing waste, and recycling electronics. It allows cost savings, uses less resources, and lessens health risks from toxic materials. Sri Lanka has e-waste collection centers and standards to minimize impacts. The future of green computing involves virtualization, more energy savings, eco-friendly materials, and increased recycling.
Green computing, also known as green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing practices that can help conserve energy, reduce pollution, and lessen the environmental impact of computing. Some key tactics for green computing include using power management settings, purchasing energy efficient hardware, replacing paper systems with online communication, and properly disposing of or recycling electronics through reuse, refurbishment, or formal e-waste recycling programs. While green computing may require initial investments, it provides long term cost savings through reduced energy usage and aligns with environmental stewardship.
Green-ict participated to a morning workshop on the subject of Green-IT. Three presentations have illustrated the Green-IT concept : one on Governance, another on Website Optimization and a last one on Project Management.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Ian Brooks - University of the West of EnglandGo Green
This document summarizes a presentation about how information technology (IT) can both help and hinder business sustainability efforts. It discusses how the IT industry contributes to climate change and various social and environmental issues through its large carbon footprint and issues in supply chains. However, IT also presents opportunities to reduce emissions by 20% through applications like smart grids and telecommuting. The presentation encourages businesses to manage IT sustainability issues and leverage IT's potential to support sustainability goals in areas like operations and procurement.
Barney Smith is the programme director of Perform Green, which provides services related to sustainable IT. The document discusses:
1) The case for green IT in business, including reasons like regulation, financial savings, talent management, and brand reputation.
2) Aspects to consider in green IT like power usage of devices, decommissioning equipment, print optimization, virtualization, and data center efficiency.
3) Examples of green IT initiatives like reducing employee printing, transitioning to laptops and flexible working, raising thermostats in data centers, and using video conferencing to reduce travel costs and emissions.
Technologies, Strategies And Algorithm In Green Computing – Solution To Energ...IJERA Editor
A safe and non-polluted environment is the basic need of a living being. But today the situation is getting changed. Our environment is getting polluted day by day at a very high rate. The use of computing devices plays a vital role in harmfulness of environment. To reduce these harmful impacts the concept of Green Computing must be implemented. In this research paper, we includes some technologies, strategies and algorithm which are used for the implementation of green computing. The main reason is the awareness of a common user. If a common user is getting aware about the harmful impacts of use of computing devices over environment and takes some steps at own level to reduce electricity, the concept of green computing will be implemented.
This document discusses the environmental impacts of datacenters and the need for more sustainable practices. It notes that datacenter energy usage and associated costs are rising rapidly as more equipment is needed to support modern technologies and applications. Two major issues are energy inefficiency and toxic e-waste from outdated equipment. The document examines steps some companies like Symantec are taking to reduce their carbon footprint through consolidation, efficiency programs, and LEED certification. However, it also discusses barriers like a lack of accountability for energy costs and a focus on redundancy over sustainability. Overall, it argues for improved monitoring, equipment management, and use of renewable energy to help datacenters transition to more environmentally friendly operations.
This document summarizes research from approximately 350 organizations across Europe on their energy efficiency and green ICT practices. The research found that energy efficient policies are lacking in most businesses, and a large proportion do not train employees on energy efficiency. Commonly used equipment like printers are often not shared or optimized for energy savings. While some countries and micro organizations have better implementation of green practices, overall monitoring of energy consumption and application of standards is lacking across many European organizations. The conclusions recommend developing best practices, increasing education for organizations, and expanding monitoring beyond just IT departments.
This document proposes a "Consolidate, Virtualize and Energize" project to reduce energy consumption and costs across the 32 colleges and universities in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system through server virtualization, reducing underutilized computer terminals, incorporating alternative energy sources, expanding online classes, and educating staff on green technologies. The project aims to reduce energy usage by 5% in the first phase and 10% upon completion in 2016. Key steps include consolidating data centers, implementing virtualization, purchasing energy efficient equipment, and raising awareness of energy consumption among students, faculty and staff.
The document discusses Mitel's approach to becoming more sustainable and environmentally friendly. It outlines how Mitel solutions can help customers reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions through teleworking, virtual meetings, centralized administration of sites, and lower power IP phones and communication systems. The document also discusses Mitel's own sustainability efforts, which include being a founding member of the Climate Registry, having ISO 14001 certification, and programs to reduce corporate travel, waste and emissions.
Green computing is the next wave in computing and aims to reduce the environmental impact of computers and their use. It helps reduce pollution and global warming by using less electricity and creating less toxic waste. Various approaches to green computing include improving energy efficiency through practices like power management, virtualization, and algorithmic efficiency. The advantages of green technology include energy savings, environmental friendliness and cost effectiveness over time, while disadvantages include higher initial costs and limited availability.
This document defines green computing and discusses its importance. Green computing aims to reduce the environmental impact of computing through more efficient use of resources and responsible disposal of electronic waste. It involves strategies like power management, using energy efficient hardware, recycling electronics, and reducing paper usage. While green computing requires initial costs, it provides long term benefits like financial savings, energy efficiency and environmental protection. The document emphasizes that adopting green computing practices is important for a sustainable future.
The document discusses green computing and its importance. It describes green computing as minimizing the carbon footprint of computing through efficient resource use. It outlines some approaches like using eco-friendly materials in manufacturing and more energy efficient displays. It also discusses challenges like increasing data center energy needs and electronic waste disposal. The future of green computing is explored through concepts like solar-powered and recyclable paper laptops. The conclusion emphasizes that green computing requires efforts from both the IT industry and governments to further reduce energy consumption and move towards more sustainable practices.
The document summarizes Oracle's commitments and initiatives related to environmental sustainability. It discusses Oracle's participation in programs like the EPA Climate Leaders program and its conservation efforts. It then outlines Oracle's philosophy of reducing, reusing and recycling. The document highlights Oracle's green data center projects and how it empowers customers with applications to measure and reduce their environmental impact.
The document discusses the concept of green computing, which aims to minimize the environmental impact of computers and electronic devices through efficient and sustainable use, design, manufacturing, and disposal. It outlines the goals of green computing such as reducing hazardous materials and promoting recyclability, and provides statistics on e-waste generation as well as individual practices like power management and recycling to support green computing. The conclusion emphasizes that green computing helps promote an eco-friendly environment while also reducing costs and conserving energy.
Entrepreneurship Empowerment Symposium - Session 01: Promoting small medium business development through the strategic use of ICT by Pia Ault the director of strategy and business development at Cisco Systems Inc.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document summarizes an entrepreneurship symposium focused on using education technology and innovation to empower entrepreneurship. It discusses the power of social media, noting how President Obama raised $6.5 million for his campaign through social media. It also shows how quickly social media platforms reached 50 million users, with Facebook reaching that number in less than 9 months. Finally, it outlines the vision, mission, and programs of the E-Learning Competence Center in Egypt, which aims to enhance Egypt's economic growth through e-learning and developing entrepreneurship skills like social media marketing.
Entrepreneurship Empowerment Symposium, Session 04: Media Convergence form the Perspective of an Educator by Naila hamdy, Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication, AUC
Entrepreneurship Empowerment Symposium - Session 05: Entrepreneurship Education for the Disabled and Minorities by Samy Gameel, the CEO of Asdaa Association.
Entrepreneurship Empowerment Symposium, Session 03: Opening Up Digital Frontiers by Wael Fakharany, the Regional Manager of Egypt and North Africa, Google
This workshop presentation discusses the use of social media for entrepreneurs. It provides an overview of major social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn and their usage statistics. The presentation also outlines strategies for developing an effective integrated social media presence and maximizing its benefits for businesses. This includes understanding goals, priority needs, implementing an online presence, engaging customers and the importance of a mobile strategy.
This document discusses the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) in Egypt. It provides an overview of TIEC, including its mission to stimulate innovation-based economic growth. It outlines TIEC's strategy, which focuses on inspiring, innovating, and impacting through learning, localizing, and leapfrogging. The strategic pillars of TIEC include innovation culture, clusters and optimization, an innovation brand and prize program, intellectual property exchange, and improving the business environment. The document provides examples of initiatives under each pillar, such as a cloud computing technology center, to position Egypt as a leader in ICT innovation.
The EAUC has launched a new Green ICT Community of Practice to promote more efficient information services and reduce carbon emissions from ICT operations. Global ICT accounts for 2% of worldwide CO2 emissions, similar to airlines. While UK universities contribute a small portion, improving ICT efficiency makes environmental and business sense by reducing costs. Various regulations also require environmentally responsible disposal of electronics and batteries. The University of East London conducted a project funded by JISC that significantly reduced printing devices and usage through cross-departmental collaboration, demonstrating that greening ICT sometimes only requires cultural and behavioral changes rather than technology.
Green Computing, eco trends, climate change, e-waste and eco-friendlyEditor IJCATR
This document discusses green computing practices and sustainable IT services. It provides an overview of factors driving adoption of green computing to reduce costs and environmental impact of data centers, such as rising energy costs and density. Green strategies discussed include improving infrastructure efficiency, power management, thermal management, efficient product design, and virtualization to optimize resource utilization. The document examines how green computing aims to lower costs and environmental footprint, and how sustainable IT services take a broader approach considering economic, environmental and social impacts.
This document discusses approaches to green IT, including virtualization, power management, efficient storage, video cards, displays, remote conferencing, product longevity, algorithmic efficiency, resource allocation, terminal servers, and operating system support. It notes that data centers consume a huge amount of power for servers and cooling, costing $4.5 billion annually. Organizations can reduce their "data footprint" and deployment/management resources through technologies like database solutions for massive data analysis and open-source software. This helps save money and resources while making operations more environmentally friendly.
JISC's Green ICT Programme aims to reduce the environmental impact of the education sector through attitudinal and behavioral change, sustainable procurement, and making sustainability a key driver of sector activities. The programme intends to build a body of knowledge around green ICT, showcase exemplar projects providing best practices, and reduce the sector's carbon footprint and energy costs. Recent projects under the programme have included carbon footprinting tools, research into areas like cloud computing and video conferencing, and technical innovations at various institutions to optimize server energy use, storage, and printing.
This presentation discusses green computing and how to implement it. Green computing aims to reduce the environmental impact of computers and associated hardware. It encourages energy efficient use, less hazardous materials, and better recycling. Some strategies discussed are using virtualization to reduce server numbers, downloading software instead of physical copies, replacing paper with online systems, using more efficient LCD displays, optimizing algorithms, and virtualizing desktops. Adopting green computing can provide cost savings and business benefits while helping the environment.
This document discusses green initiative approaches for reducing costs and waste in data centers. It begins with introducing data centers and green computing. The main problem outlined is the increasing energy consumption and environmental impact of data centers. Several issues with current practices are identified, including limited server utilization and lack of power management. The challenges of implementing green initiatives include limited funds, proving business benefits, and planning. Case studies and economic analyses of solutions like solar power, virtualization, and variable speed drives are provided to demonstrate how green approaches can reduce costs and waste in data centers.
This document discusses research on Green ICT. It begins by defining Green ICT as environmentally sustainable technology and processes for designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of ICT. It then discusses challenges like increasing energy consumption and e-waste. Current research focuses on decreasing energy usage in areas like data centers, communication networks, and computing devices. Initiatives studied include server virtualization, desktop virtualization, storage consolidation, and remote conferencing. The document concludes by calling for more Green ICT research in Mauritius, especially on awareness, energy usage, policy, asset disposal, and encouraging collaboration.
JISC and Best Practice E-Learning by Rob Bristow, JISCGoodCampus
JISC's Greening ICT Programme has several key objectives, including promoting sustainability across the higher education sector and developing best practices. The programme has produced research on carbon footprint reduction and case studies on exemplar projects. Current projects under the programme examine issues like cloud computing, video conferencing, scientific computing energy usage, and engaging users in sustainability. The programme also aims to build sustainability capacity in estates management and promote institutional transformation around procurement, curriculum delivery, and academic travel.
Imtech ICT provides energy assessment services to help businesses develop carbon management plans and reduce energy costs. The assessment involves an online survey, report on areas for improvement, and consultation to establish goals. Key areas for improvement include energy consumption, workplace culture, customer/shareholder impact, travel policies and more. Imtech can help clients achieve smarter energy solutions and a more sustainable future through their expertise in electrical, ICT and mechanical services.
Green Computing is a way of study of ending reutilizing and rebuilding of computers and electronic devices is overall analysis. The goal of green computing is to reduce the dangerous material increasing the utilization of energy. Green computing implies to practices and ways of utilizing computing resources in an ecofriendly way while maintaining overall computing .green IT refers to computer and information system and IT applications and predominant strategy to help save and enrich an environment, an increase in the eco logical sustainability in today times. Green computing is under consideration of all the business organization and leading companies with the advancement of new technologies and its varieties of applications. In yester years, especially during last 10 years, computer and IT industries realized the importance of going green an addressing the major concern relating to environment and also to minimize the cost which has led to sharp drift in strategy and policy to IT industry. The importance behind this change arise from computing demand and emerging cost of energy, global warning issues ,this paper present ecofriendly initiatives under way in IT industry and in brief covers the main research challenges which are still gazing to meet green computing requirements. Ms. Amritpal Kaur | Ms. Saravjit Kaur "Green Computing: Emerging Issues in IT" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25311.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/computer-engineering/25311/green-computing-emerging-issues-in-it/ms-amritpal-kaur
Green computing is an important concept in education, as students understand the environmental impacts of technology and the need to use sustainable practices. It is also essential for teaching students to be responsible digital citizens, as they need to understand the potential environmental impacts of their online activities. Educating students about green computing can help them become more aware of their environmental impact and the importance of sustainability.
Green ICT-Calculation of carbon footprint of an academic facilityKriti Doneria
This document summarizes a project calculating the carbon footprint of an academic facility (Galgotias University). It includes an introduction describing the importance of calculating carbon footprints and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ICT. The problem statement defines what a carbon footprint is and why it is important to calculate the footprint of an academic facility. The methodology section describes how the project will survey users of a web application to continuously update and refine the average carbon footprint calculated for the university based on its data set. The related works section briefly discusses similar carbon footprint calculation projects conducted at other universities.
The document discusses sustainability in ICT design. Some key points:
- 2% of global carbon emissions come from ICT manufacture and use, but ICT could deliver a 15% reduction in emissions by 2020 through applications like telecommuting.
- Data centers account for a large portion of ICT emissions. Improving efficiency through techniques like cloud adoption, virtualization, and optimizing cooling can reduce emissions.
- When procuring new ICT systems, organizations should consider factors like energy use, recyclability, hazardous materials, and carbon footprint of manufacturing. Green standards can help identify more sustainable options.
- Throughout the lifecycle, ICT sustainability involves efficient use of resources, reducing waste,
Green IT Amsterdam Region - six focus areas for an Urban Green ICT Infrastruc...Jaak Vlasveld
The document discusses Green IT Amsterdam Region, a consortium founded in 2010 to help reduce CO2 emissions in the Amsterdam region by 40% by 2025. The consortium consists of ICT, energy, government, and education organizations that work on projects to develop a sustainable ICT infrastructure focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Key projects include developing a Green Data Port for sustainable data processing, testing smart grid technologies, exploring green cloud computing, using ICT to reduce energy consumption in various sectors, and establishing a Green Software Community. The goal is to foster economic growth while reducing emissions through a transition to green ICT.
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This document discusses green IT strategies and initiatives. It provides an overview of green IT, defining it as operating an IT company or department with a focus on waste reduction, conservation, sustainability and the environment built into everyday practices. It discusses the need for green IT strategies to conserve resources, reduce costs and waste, and improve reputation. Specific green IT strategies mentioned include monitoring energy usage and bills, effective recycling programs, and developing mobile apps to empower groups like unemployed women through green initiatives.
A holistic approach to assessing the climate-positive effects of ICT.
A holistic methodology is necessary for assessing the potential reduction of CO2
e emissions. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a well-established method and can be used for comparing emissions created in different scenarios. Standardized LCA methods can be used to identify solutions with the lowest CO2e emissions.
They provide society as a whole with the methods to assess a large number of possible solutions, to quantify the magnitude of potential reductions, and to show where these reductions could take place.
2. 1| Introduction
Founded in 2004 as an alliance between the Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology (MCIT) and Cisco Systems, the E-Learning Competence Center (ELCC) is Egypt’s
leading organization in E-learning with a track record of developing and delivering a wide array
of e-learning courses and content, defining and disseminating quality standards of E-learning,
providing best practice research and expert consultancy and engendering the first wave of
facilitators and e-trainers.
Being fully aware of the subsequent effect of energy consumption on carbon dioxide emissions
of ICTs, while recognizing the critical importance of ICT as an enabler for environmental and
cultural change, the ELCC have developed and implanted a plan of action to go green.
2% of global carbon emissions come from the manufacture
and use of ICT; ELCC believes ICT is part of the problem and
the solution
ELCC believes business workflow and IT operations can be greener. The implemented action
plan contributed to conserve energy, to reduce traffic load and paper consumption and to
minimize the use of hardware. Being committed to environmental responsibility in its business
operations and e-learning solutions, ELCC looks to address this through four areas:
Its operations and the impact it has as a business
Creating efficiency and sustainability in its e-learning, which is inherently Green learning
Integrating sustainability strategies in the center’s overall corporate strategy
Inspiring its employees to get involved and take action
Spreading knowledge and awareness of Green ICT through online courses
“ELCC Goes Green” case study demonstrates best practices in the center’s shift to a “Green”
organization while identifying opportunities for the ICT industry, to replace goods and services
with virtual equivalents and to provide technology to enable energy efficiency.
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3. 2| What is Green ICT?
The ICT sector has transformed the way we live, work, learn and play. From mobile phones and
micro-computer chips to the internet, ICT has consistently delivered innovative products and
services that are now an integral part of everyday life. ICT has systematically increased
productivity and supported economic growth across both developed and developing countries.
But what impact do pervasive ICT have on the environment?
There is huge potential for ICT to become the pivotal
driver in the sustainability of every organization, large or
small.
Green lCT refers to all ICT solutions which lead to energy savings in a company. "Green IT"
therefore covers hardware, software and services: In the hardware area, energy-efficient
desktop PCs, thin client architectures and data center hardware offer potential, as do energy
supply and cooling systems. It also covers virtualization software and solutions for dynamic
capacity management in particular, as well as data center planning or storage offshoring in the
software and service area. The positive approaches of Green ICT are also extended to include
energy saving solutions from the telecommunications area, e.g., video conference systems.
Detailed observations further show that Green ICT covers other aspects throughout life cycles:
Resource-saving procurement, environmentally-aware behavior in the workplace and data
center operation with sustainable energy through to the environmentally-friendly disposal of
old electrical appliances and, where possible, large-scale recycling, also come under this term.
There is huge potential for ICT to become the pivotal driver in the sustainability of every
organization, large or small. ICT staff, if they have the skills and knowledge and given the
opportunity, will be able to cut costs, improve operational efficiency and ensure an
organization’s sustainability strategy is a success.
The Facts…
ICT is responsible for 2% of global emissions of CO2 which is on par with the aviation
industry15 and both are growing rapidly.
It is estimated that a medium-sized server has roughly the same annual carbon footprint as
an SUV vehicle doing 15 miles per gallon, covering 15,000 km16.
According to Forrester Research, a data centre with 1000 servers will use enough electricity
in a single month to power 16,800 homes for a year.
A significant proportion of lifetime carbon emission of ITC equipment is in its manufacture.
The manufacture of one PC requires about 1.7 tons of raw materials and water, and
consumes over ten times the computer’s weight in fossil fuels.
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4. 3| ELCC’s Green ICT Vision and Objectives
Green ICT is not only about using greener technology, but also about instilling a cultural change
in favor of environmental sustainability. Therefore, through its Green ICT endeavor, the ELCC
aims to spread awareness on Green ICT and change individuals’ and organizations’ behavior in
favor of Green ICT practices will reduce the impact and costs of energy consumption as well as
control the damage caused by the disposal of hazardous materials found in electronic
equipment.
In doing so, the ELCC aims to provide best practices that demonstrate the potential for energy
savings. ELCC’s example shall also be complimented by effective communication of the benefits
and methods of achieving greener ICT to the public sector, businesses and civil society.
Dissemination of information and awareness-raising are key factors to bringing about the
cultural shift that is required in people’s behavior.
Objectives:
In light of the above, ELCC is setting out the following objectives to improve Green ICT
credentials, both on the organizational and the national levels:
Develop, implement and sustain a Green ICT action plan.
Align ELCC’s business processes and working practices with Green ICT principles by making
effective and innovative use of ICTs and changing the corporate culture.
Disseminate knowledge and awareness of the importance of Green ICT among all
stakeholders through e-learning courses.
3 ELCC Goes Green | Case Study
5. 4| E-learning: Green Learning
E-learning is inherently green. ELCC’s green learning technology allows it to offer online training
with a reduced impact on the environment and an enhanced impact on performance.
The key to green learning is that sustainability, renewability, and the reduction of carbon
emissions and aggregate resource demand to lower the impact on the environment is effectively
achieved. By moving a course online, one of the biggest contributors to carbon footprint is
reduced, which is travel because it saves tremendous petroleum and energy resources used in
transportation of learners from their place of dwelling/office to place of learning. Furthermore,
basing courses on Learning Management Systems (LMS) allows learners to sustain knowledge
longer; structuring program materials to create a blueprint for applying learning to similar
problems makes knowledge renewable; streamlining of processes makes it more efficient; and
automation leads to easy accessibility and ready availability.
This approach to learning, combined with reduced travel, reduced paperwork and manual tasks,
a single interface, a collaborative learning mechanism and ease in modification and update
greatly reduces our demand on resources for training and makes significant contribution to
shrinking carbon footprints.
The assets of e-learning like reduced paperwork and manual
tasks, saving on the transportation costs, streamlining of
processes and savings of the classroom logistics makes it by
virtue a Green Learning
Embarking on the wide outreach of e-learning, ELCC used e-learning to spread green knowledge.
The center have developed a course on the fundamentals of Green ICT that is designed for
technical administrators, application developers, system administrators, architects and also for
business analysts and business managers. The course aims to introduce key concepts and best
practice principles of Green ICT that will enable learners to optimize the use of ICT in the sake of
"going Green"
“It is very timely for the ELCC to be developing and delivering
courses around “Green ICT” to ensure that there is a growing
body of knowledge that is able to take full advantage of
energy efficiency strategies to minimize the impact of ICT on
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the environment, and to use ICT in the most efficient manner.
Yasser Kazem, Director, ELCC
The Green ICT course covers a wide variety of ICT greening topics, concepts and tactics including
sustainable ICT strategies, carbon Footprint measurement and reduction, data center efficiency,
Green ICT assessment, Green computing, cloud Computing and recycling, re-use and disposal of
ICT equipment. The course also puts Green ICT in to action through presenting a number of case
studies that depict best practice implementation of Green ICT strategies among renowned
global firms.
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6. 5| Greening the Data Center
As people use technology to work in different ways, it puts greater demand on data centers.
Such facilities account for a significant percentage of energy use. ELCC is improving the
management of the data centre in a number of ways. Chilling, cooling, air conditioning, power
systems management and monitoring are our baseline data center consolidation and energy
management techniques.
Such techniques are further fortified by our server optimization strategies including the
implementation of storage virtualization and capacity management and converting physical
servers to virtual servers, decommissioning inactive servers and data disks and ensuring re-use
of equipment.
6| Greening the Staff
Enabling our staff to be "green", changing their own corporate behaviors and lifestyle is a
strategic step towards actualizing the center’s Green action plan.
Several energy saving practices have been encouraged among ELCC’s staff to enable early
implementation of simple but high impact actions, including:
All ELCC staff is required to turn their computer and monitors off at the end of each
working day.
All staff is required to switch off peripheral equipment overnight, e.g. printers and
photocopying machines.
All staff is encouraged to remove active screen savers and utilize power management
functionality for monitors.
All staff is encouraged to put PCs in low power modes after periods of inactivity.
All staff is encouraged to reduce brightness on monitors.
All staff is encouraged to dispose technologies in a sound and environmentally friendly
manner.
Ensuring printers are purchased with automatic duplex function that allows the automatic
printing of a sheet of paper on both sides.
Printers are set for double-sided printing as the default and grey printing.
All staff is encouraged to use dashed and draft paper for printing as much as possible.
All staff is encouraged to refrain from printing emails wherever possible.
A photocopier which is left switched on overnight needs the
same amount of energy as it does to make 1,500 photocopies
In addition to promoting energy saving behavior, the ELCC is working towards changing
employee behaviors and perceptions of how to conduct work. Examples of which include the
use of teleconferencing and video-conferencing - particularly WebEX - to save travel and
meeting room space, cutting down on commuting and encouraging collaborative working and
telecommuting.
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7. 7| Greening the Workflow
The ELCC believes an integral part of its Green action plan includes the. In this respect, the
greening of its business and IT processes. In this respect, the center has actively integrated a
number of sustainability themes in its day-to-day business and technical operations. Below are
our adopted sustainability strategies.
ACTION PLAN: Carbon Reduction
Printer rationalization.
Printing policies, enforcing duplex printing.
Electronic faxing.
Server virtualization.
Remote PC support.
ACTION PLAN: Desktop Equipment
Posters / awareness campaigns to reinforce message.
All monitors are configured to switch to sleep mode after 10 minutes of inactivity.
Ensuring printers are purchased with automatic duplex function that allows the automatic
printing of a sheet of paper on both sides.
Removing active screensavers.
Enabling active power management.
Ensuring re-use of equipment.
ACTION PLAN: PRINTING
Optimizing power saving sleep mode on printers.
Setting default green printing including duplex and grey scale.
Setting targets for paper consumption and auditing it.
Power down printers outside office hours
ACTION PLAN: Telecommuting/Working Remotely
In addition to secure email and network access, ELCC’s IT departments leveraged the features
and benefits of connecting via the WebEx and conferencing to allow its staff to telecommute.
WebEx is designed to allow users to collaborate, so users can have rich experiences by sharing
their computer screen, presenting content, and communicating through a webcam and
computer microphone.
ACTION PLAN: Virtual Conferences
In order to reduce travel, ELCC uses WebEx to replace the need for travel for conferences and
customer visits in an attempt to help reduce travel costs and carbon footprints. Our virtual
conferences are easily hosted by using many of the features of WebEx through which we are
able to interact with participants of conferences through video, audio, chat, screenshare,
presentations and polling questions. Additionally, these sessions are recorded for later viewing.
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8. 8| Our Green Credentials
ELCC has successfully managed to realize some business and IT gains as a result of the adopted
Green ICT plan of action, which is for the center, a kick-start for further energy efficiency and
sustainability endeavors.
The realized business and IT gains are:
The optimization of IT infrastructure through improved operational efficiency.
The generation of time and cost savings.
The efficient use of power through server consolidation.
The simplification of data center management.
The reduction of power consumption.
9| Lessons Learnt
Our experience has provided us with the following learnt lessons, which are worth sharing:
Green ICT should be a component of the overall organizational strategy
Green ICT strategy must be connected to business strategy and key stakeholders
Scope of Green ICT must be clearly defined
Resources need to allocated to help keep focus
Engage staff to maintain momentum
Every contribution makes a positive difference
10| Conclusion
For any business to declare its intention to become carbon-neutral it should have a sustainable
or ‘green’ ICT policy. Although there is much work to be done to reduce the ICT industry’s 2%
contribution to carbon emissions, ELCC believes that ICT as well holds the key to reduce total
carbon emissions through the implementation of sustainable and efficient ICT solutions.
In this regards, ELCC have jump started a plan of action to prevail Green ICT and integrate its
practices and techniques in the center’s day-to-day operations. In doing so, the center have
successfully managed to optimize its IT infrastructure through improved operational efficiency,
generate time and cost savings, reduce power consumption, simplify data center management
and change the corporate behavior and life style of its employees towards Green concepts.
Although ELCC’s added value of Green ICT is represented by an improvement in the
environmental input/output balance and cost savings, this is only the reap of the low-hanging
fruits. We aspire, through the kick-off of our Green action, to present a role model for other
Egyptian entities and organizations to Green their operations and to provide them with a valid
and practical starting point for doing so. We believe that what has been achieved so far is just
the beginning of an ongoing, fully integrated Green ICT policy through which we aim to provide
evidence to the claim that there is a lot more that we can do with our ICTs that will have a
positive impact everywhere.
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