[CAnet - news] Excellent presentations on ICT and the Environment

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 [Recently the ITU and IDC in Canada held conferences on the subject of the
impact of ICT and environment.  As well the OECD is holding a workshop on
this theme in Denmark on May 21-22.  As at any such conference there was the
usual mix of bromides and platitudes about energy efficiency, tele-presence,
tele-working- to all of which I am remain extremely skeptical. However the
GeSI study pointed out that ICT can have a major impact in
"de-materialization" and building zero carbon networks and distributed
computing architectures. The later will enable the ICT industry to have a
zero or negative carbon footprint, and the former can reduce overall CO2
emissions by much as 10%.  The challenge is how to promote
de-materialization?  I have long advocated the equivalent of a carbon tax -
but where the revenue from such a tax goes directly to the consumer rather
than the government, under the condition that customer is restricted to
buying products and services that have essentially a zero carbon footprint
such as fiber and high speed Internet to the home,  eMovies,  eMusic etc 
http://free-fiber-to-the-home.blogspot.com/ --BSA]

GeSI presentation at ITU
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=IDC_P16849&pageType=EVENTPROCEEDIN
GS

ITU Conference on ICTs and Environment
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/climatechange/programme-kyoto.html

IDC Conference on ICTs and Environment
http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/06/0F/T060F0060080003PDFE.pdf



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