The Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) have both released sustainability reports in the past two weeks. The AIIA report anaysed the capability of Australian ICT firms to deliver environmental ICT solutions, while the ACS report focused on analysing the Australian ICT industry's energy consumption and carbon footprint.
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Environmental Cost of ICT: 14 Megatonnes of Carbon
International Green IT Awareness Week Wrap-up
This week was marked International Green IT Awareness Week by ComputersOff.ORG, a not-for-profit headquartered in Australia. The core activity of the week was a three day virtual event attended by 300 people across 35 different countries, however a number of news services and organisations also took up the call for a more environmentally sustainable IT through blog posts, articles, internal initiatives and the publication of books, including:
Consensus GreenTech Awards Open for Nominations
Last Week the annual Consensus GreenTech Awards opened for submissions. The awards are designed to reward excellence in Australia and New Zealand development of technologies that promote sustainability, and are sponsored by Australian Computer Society, Dimension Data, Austrade, Connection Research and NZ Trade and Enterprise.
12% Improvement in Australian Green IT Implementation
Australia is getting better at Green IT. This is the overall analysis from the annual Green IT survey conducted by Connection Research in Australia, which indicates that implementation of five key areas (Lifecycle, End User, Enterprise, Enablement and Metrics) collectively improved over 12% in the past year.
The university Green IT wars heat up
The Australian university wars last week picked up steam with the University of Melbourne announcing their collaboration with the State of Victoria and Bell Labs to develop a $10 million operation called the Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET).
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- Event: Desktop Power Management with 1E
- NSW Govt sprukes $50 energy assessment
- Event: Green IT Awareness Week Virtual Event
- Event: Green IT Summit (webcast)
- Six Universities recognised for their Green IT projects
- Event: Sustainable Sydney 2030
- Event: Eco Investor Forum, Sydney
- Green ICT in Schools
- Green IT Social Network targets 1000
- Malayasia Green Ministry: green technology a focus area
- AIIA Green IT Case Studies eBook
- One Million Women - Can they make a difference?
- NSW Green Business Opportunities
- AIIA: Sustainability Forum - Guide to Green Readiness
- Eco Investor: Forum, October, Sydney
- ACS launches new course: Green IT Strategies
- Telstra promotes field worker & telecommuting solutions
- A status assessment of the top 7 ICT initiatives to reduce carbon
- Fuji Xerox outlines their strategy for green IT & business
- Green IT Taskforce - Call for NSW based contributors
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