Green ICT

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Green ICT

• Peter Grant
• Queensland Government - CIO

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Ten Things To Do An Inconvenient Truth

• Change a light
• Drive less (Car pool, Public transport)
• Recycle more
• Check your tyres
• Use less hot water
• Avoid products with lots of packaging
• Adjust your thermostat
• Plant a Tree
• Turn off electronic devices

And ICT can help by . . . ?????
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E-Waste and the Environment

• More than 1.6 Million PCs enter landfill each
  year in Australia
• Leaching toxicity - Arsenic, cadmium, chromium,
  lead, mercury and zinc. Plastic resins and flame
  retardants.
• Materials recovery eg aluminium, steel, zinc and
  plastics

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Our Objective in Queensland

• Queensland Government has 250,000 pcs
• Replaced approx every 3-4 years
• Queensland Purchasing has a Whole of Government
  Panel for PC
• Ensure that our fleet is green
• Ensure that our fleet is appropriately recycled
• Ensure that our pricing is competitive
• Ensure that suppliers are sustainable City /
  Bush
• CITECs vision
• To be the provider of efficient and sustainable
  ICT services, information services and technology
  expertise for Queensland Government

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Environmental Considerations
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Benefits of Being Green

• Financial and green savings from 60 reduction in
  power usage
• Recycling is commercially viable, packaging
  provisions make it easier
• 4 year warranty competitive price. Good for
  economy, good for environment
• Architect the Environment Adjust the Power
  Settings

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While all this is positive and I support it we
can do more . . .

• We need to look at what the APPLICATION of ICT
  can do for the environment.

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Technology Opportunity Identification Our
History
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We have Great Opportunities NOW with ICT

• The Impact of ICT on the Community
• Mobility / Teleworking
• Population Density Issues (Water, Transport)
• The Credibility of the ICT Industry
• A Career for young People
• Our Capability / professionalism
• Planning / Architecting . . . Ensuring we keep
  our Promises

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Are We Really in the Information Age . . .
when we continue to look to solve communications
problems with concrete and oil?
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Most CIOs look for technology enablers / drivers
solely for organisations / supply chains.
Very few CIOs are looking for COMMUNITY
impacts.In fact there arent even any planning
models to uncover these.
Transportation / Communication is one area where
OIL dominates information.
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CANBERRA

• Canberras Choosing Concrete over ICT

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Canberra has an Information Age Alternative

• So do the other Capital Cities

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Grid Lock Model Decongestion Effect
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OIL AGE OPTION
Option A
Traffic Throughput
Volume of Vehicles
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INFORMATION AGE OPTION
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Option B
Decongestion Effect NZ 77,000,000 gallons of
fuel and 139,000,000,000 gallons of exhaust.
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DAILY Greenhouse gas emissions from the Worldwide
commute

• 1.400 Trillion gallons of fuel
• 720 Million tones of poisonous gas that is ONE
  mile square X FIVE miles high

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Where is the Leadership in IS?

• Were NOT fixing our huge environmental and
  transportation problems with ICT when all the
  solutions are off the shelf
• WHY?

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ICT Green at Many Levels