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JISC’s Greening ICT Programme
Rob BristowProgramme Manager Green ICT
11 March 2011
RSC North-East Online Conference
Supporting Education and Research
What JISC is
• Funded by the four UK funding councils
• Provides the infrastructure and associated services through JANET UK
• Services
• e.g. JISC Mail, TechDis
• Friends and Relations
• e.g. British Library, SURF
• Communities (e.g.
libraries, National Grid Service)
• Areas of innovation activity:
• E-Research
• E-Learning
• Content & Digitisation
• Information Environment
• Organisational support
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What JISC Does (in a nutshell)
• Saving money - Going green
• Knowing what the right things to do are, how to do them better, and how to stay ahead of the game – By:
• Developing systems / services
• Fostering communities
• Promoting innovation
• Harvesting, sharing and embedding expertise
• Influencing and supporting
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Drivers for Green ICT
• ICT Energy and carbon emissions
• Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)
• Funding council drivers
• Reduce costs
• Improve efficiency
• Enhance reputation
• New ways of working and new paradigms for teaching, learning, research and administration
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The Problem• 760,000 PCs
• 215,000 servers
• 147,000 networked printers
• 512,000 Mwh of electricity
• 275,000 tonnes of CO2
• High costs
• £116 million + in 2009 (Electricity HE & FE in UK)Source: Suste-IT Report
Picture: Josie FraserSome rights reserved
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The opportunity
• Smarter systems, buildings and processes
• De-materialisation, dis-aggregation and dis-intermediation
• HE as exemplar for low-carbon IT
• Green as driver for other efficiency gains
• ICT as cost versus ICT as opportunity
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The Green ICT Programme - Overview
Key objectives for the programme
• Greening the sector - attitudinal and behaviour change embedded across the sector
• New sustainable procurement paradigms
• Sustainability seen as key driver and yardstick for sector activities
• Harnessing of sector research activities
Intended outputs from this programme
• Substantive body of knowledge illuminating areas of uncertainty in respect to Green ICT
• Exemplar projects providing leadership and best practice example
Outcomes
• Reduction of sector carbon footprint and associated energy costs
• Increased capacity and expertise across the sector in sustainable ICT
• Improved reputation of sector and UK as leaders in this area
• Reduction in waste generated by ICT use
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Forthcoming Events• Green IT for science and technology
• University of Cambridge, 7th September 2011
• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2011/09/greenitforscience.aspx
• Best Practice Criteria for Sustainable E-Learning
• The Open University, Milton Keynes, 1st Nov 2011
• http://www.goodcampus.org/events/info.php?siteID=&refnum=70&startnum=0
• “Interfaces Day”
• De Montfort University, Leicester
• Date TBC
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Links• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/greeningict.aspx - JISC’s Greening ICT
Programme
• http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/energyefficiency/html/standby_initiative_data_centers.htm - EU C of C
• http://www.susteit.org.uk/publications/index.php - for:
• Suste-IT main report and summaries
• Best practice reviews for Data Centres, Personal Computing, Printing, Procurement
• A number of papers written by Grid Computing Now! for the Suste-IT project. Subjects covered include the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres, Data Centre Cooling and Virtualisation
• http://www.susteit.org.uk/cases/index.php - for 20 case studies drawn from UK HE and FE highlighting good practice and innovative solutions
• http://greenict.jiscinvolve.org/ - JISC’s Green ICT Blog
• http://jiscgreenict.org/ - JISC Greening ICT Community site – aggregated blogs from the projects
• #greenict - Tag in use on Twitter et al
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Contact
• Rob Bristow
• Programme Manager (Green ICT)
• +44 (0) 7825 823 282
• Twitter: robbristow
• Blog: http://greenict.jiscinvolve.org/
• Mailing list: [email protected]
