Building a Green ICT Community Albert Hankel NOTE: THIS PRESENTATION IS NOT FINISHED BUT WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT WILL BE PRESENTED.

What is Green ICT?

Greening of ICT

Enabling power of ICT

Why should we want Green ICT?

Total global footprint

The Global ICT footprint = Gartner, 2007 IEA: ICT represents 8% global energy consumption, will grow to 40% in 2030

But… WWF (medium estimation): doing smart stuff can reduce CO 2 emission by 5 Gt - that is more than 10%! ACEEE: For every extra kilowatt-hour of electricity that has been Demanded by ICT, the U.S. economy increased its overall energy savings by a factor of about 10. The extraordinary implication of this finding is that ICT provide a net savings of energy across our economy.

Why should NRENs care?

Not finished… NREN services and ICT in general are a significant part of the Higher Education & Research footprint

Aside from creating a better world of course

The Dutch situation

2% yearly 30% in 2020 save energy

What about ICT? 2010: ICT-scan on 9 institutions ( employees, students) 9 institutions Total energy consumption179 GWh Energy consumption by datacenters (9% of total) 16.1 GWh Energy consumption of ICT-equipment in datacenters 7.9 GWh Energy consumption of computers (13% of total) 24 GWh 22% (and rising)

Results of ICT-scan 2010 Too old Too cold Too empty Hardly turned off during closing hours No power management 25% off! 56% off! But… ICT departments hardly pay the energy bill

Community reaction

Building a community

Starting up a Special Interest Group (SIG) Specific theme Stimulate community activity Share knowledge Organise meetings, workshops BY and FOR the field Specs:

Yearly Symposium First in nov 2010, second in 2012 Over 100 visitors (Dutch)

Funding for innovative sustainability projects  Projects should somehow reduce CO 2 emissions  euro’s available, max 20k per project  50% matching  Results should be shared (CC-license or equivalent ) Sustainable ICT-educationSustainable Software Paper reduction (dematerialization)Sharing Green ICT practices Digital mobility in educationVirtual Teaching Sustainability in e-ScienceSmart data storage Visualization of personal energy consump.Using gamification for awareness Projects on:

Follow-up ICT-scan OpenDCME Open Data Center Measure of Efficiency -Focused on datacentres & workplaces -Online tool -Free for connected institutions during 2012 "If you can not measure it, you can not improve it." - Lord Kelvin

What do they think?

Some slides will be added on the opinion of our community

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