Green Formula

to Sustain our

Digital Life

By Ahmed Buhazza

Current Life…

Green Telecom

Final Destination!

• Landfill: The burial of waste in regulated disposal facilities.

What to do?!

Green IT Strategy

Key Elements

Key Element 2: Going Green through IT

Applying green IT solutions to make other activities more environmentally friendly

Includes implementing tele-commuting technologies to reduce unnecessary travel, deploying green transportation planning systems and moving operations online

Key Element 1: Greening IT

Reducing the environmental footprint of IT equipment

Includes data center consolidation, advanced cooling, and server virtualization

Key Element 3: Green IT Governance

Policies, Standards, Guidelines and Procedures

Green Compliant Technology Architecture

Green Reporting (using IT)

Green Awareness and Training

Green ICT approaches

Green of IT - Framework

Green IT Strategy

Key Elements

Key Element 2: Going Green through IT

Applying green IT solutions to make other activities more environmentally friendly

Includes implementing tele-commuting technologies to reduce unnecessary travel, deploying green transportation planning systems and moving operations online

Key Element 1: Greening IT

Reducing the environmental footprint of IT equipment

Includes data center consolidation, advanced cooling, and server virtualization

Key Element 3: Green IT Governance

Policies, Standards, Guidelines and Procedures

Green Compliant Technology Architecture

Green Reporting (using IT)

Green Awareness and Training

Going Green

Through IT

Energy

Increasing demand for renewable energies

Investigate solutions such as Smart-Grids

Handle through the IT and business strategies for EWA

Transportation

Improve fuel efficiency and sustainability of travel

Investigate need to implement fleet management systems to manage Government vehicles

IT strategy for Ministry of Transportation should investigate solutions for Route management technology and Public traffic management

Buildings

IT can be used to effectively manage building utilities,

Develop and implement standards for building control systems as part of the shared services strategy

Documentation

Move away from a paper based environment towards a digital environment through

Ongoing business process re-engineering

Shared digital archiving and document management technologies

eFax software and Video conferencing solutions

Green by IT - Framework

Green by IT

Facing the Challenges?!

General Challenges

• Lack of national scale and regional Green IT Strategy;

• Lack of incentives, policy and legislation for green practice and e-waste management;

• Inadequate awareness and public education on the smart use of IT to protect the environment;

• Absence of national infrastructure for formal recycling;

• Poor corporate responsibility by the industry;

ICT Age Factors

Brand, Equipment Quality & Configuration

Supplier Support and Spare parts availability

Warranty Period

Software/System update, version Requirements

User & Business Demands

Usage, Carefulness, Damages

Benefits of Asset Management System

& Refresh Period

• Inventory Control

• Total Cost of Ownership

• Software License Compliance

• Operational Monitoring and Control

• Decision Making about IT Resource Deployment

• Zero-day Employee Provisioning

• Standardization and Compliance

• More Informed Purchasing

• Business Resumption Reducing operating costs (10%-40% cost savings of operating cost)

Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis – UK 2007

IC T equipment life-cycle Procurement Disposal

Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis – UK 2007

Waste Refuse

ZeroWaste SA’s waste management hierarchy www.zerowaste.sa.gov.au

Disposal options

IT conforms to the European Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) to dispose of its IT equipment.

Source: National Audit Office survey and analysis – UK 2007

Refining Methods

• Clear – use software or hardware products to

overwrite storage space on the media with non-sensitive data.

• Purge

– Degaussing is exposing the magnetic media to a strong magnetic field in order to disrupt the recorded magnetic domains.

• Destroy

– Disintegration, Pulverization, Melting, and Incineration

– Shredding.

Legislation

•Environmental Protection •The Environmental Act (1994), Section 34: Duty of care and The Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991 •Hazardous Waste Regulations (2005) •Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations (2006)

•Electrical Safety •The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994 •The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

•Data Protection & Security •Data Protection Act (1998) •Official Secrets Act (1989)

Generate Better Value

• Smart Aging (Refresh Period) – Define the optimum age for your corporate disposal (3 to 5

years)

– Consider Reducing the costs of resale and increasing resale revenues;

– Dispose whenever is practical and cost effective

– Contract for buy-back “revenue sharing”, “zero-cost” or “at cost”,

• Smart ICT Procurement – Awareness of the longer life items and commercial market values

for used equipments

Avoid the time when – to have no value;

– to be unserviceable or beyond economical repair; or

– that the disposal cost is higher than the likely return.

Effective ICT Asset Management and

Disposal Policy

Avoid the Wider Risk

• Environmental Protection – Awareness about relevant legislation

– Oversight of the disposal agents’ practices

• Data protection and security – Oversight of Data wiping standard

– Oversight over approaches being used by the disposal agent

• Electrical safety Check – ICT equipments before resale or donation

Consider the use of environmentally sustainable

methods of destruction/recycling.

Replace Cost by Benefits

Cost Benefits

“Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.” Robert South

Cost Benefits

Achieve Sustainable Environment