Australia behind China, Turkey, South Korea in ICT Sustainability Index
Australia has been ranked in the bottom half of G20 nations for its ability to use ICT to reduce CO2 emissions according to IDC's recently launched ICT Sustainability Index.
Australia has been ranked in the bottom half of G20 nations for its ability to use ICT to reduce CO2 emissions according to IDC's recently launched ICT Sustainability Index.
Computerworld concludes the [[artnid: 327427|Copenhagen Countdown series|new]] by taking a look audio and video conferencing technology as a way to help reduce green house gas emissions.
IDC will release the complete results of its ICT Sustainability Index in a press conference in Copenhagen on December 10 2009.
Computerworld continues the Copenhagen Countdown series by taking a look at how carbon emission management software can help ICT industry reduce green house gas emissions. Carbon emission management software, or CEMS, allows organisations to understand how they are using energy and how they are creating emissions. The software is designed to examine which areas or parts of the organisation are the main culprits of carbon emissions and provide information to help companies decide how to improve energy costs and emission output.
Data centres need to become centres of excellence in delivering cost effective computing power, says IBRS advisor, James Turner.
Computerworld continues its Copenhagen Countdown series by taking a look a virtualisation.
In the lead up to Copenhagen, Computerworld spoke with CSC CTO and National Director of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), Bob Hayward, Fujitsu's director of sustainability, Alison O'Flynn, about the top five technologies that could help organisations and individuals reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.
With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) due to kick off in Copenhagen on December 7 and the country's politicians debating an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the Australian ICT industry is gearing up for what some suggest could – and should – be a green revolution.
An anonymous hacker has posted private e-mails, files and other documents belonging to a noted climate researcher, sparking an international debate between skeptics of global warming and those who see it as an urgent problem.