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Green ICT in Germany

April 29th, 2010 by Graham Attwell

Don’t jump to conclusions and think my German has suddenly improved. But Pontydysgu are proud to be associated with organising a seminar on Green ICT in Bremen, Germany on May 12th, along with our friends from the Institut Technik und Bildung at the University of Bremen.  The seminar features work undertaken by the Green ICT strand of the UK JISC Users and Innovations programme. JISC have also set up a Green ICT blog. Guest speakers are Josie Fraser from the JISC SSBR project, Howard Noble from Oxford University Computing Services who has been looking at low carbon computing, and  Stephen Phipps from the Univeristy of Hertfordshire, For those of you who are interested the seminar takes place from 9:30 to 17:30  at the Gästehaus der Universität Bremen, Auf dem Teerhof 58.

Das Thema »Green ICT« (grüne Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie) gewinnt in Deutschland an Bedeutung, denn vielen Computernutzern – ob kommerziellen, öffentlichen oder privaten – wird zunehmend klar; das wir auf neue Kraftwerke verzichten könnten, wenn der Energieverbrauch in diesem Feld klein gehalten wird und wir gezielt  energiesparende Technologie und Verhaltensweisen nutzen.
Hinter dem Begriff »Green ICT«, verbergen sich technische Innovationen und Ver-haltensstrategien, die bei den Nutzern, den Betreibern von Rechenzentren und sonstiger ICT- Infrastruktur und bei denjenigen ansetzen, die über den Kauf und die Nutzung von ICT-Technologie entscheiden. Das Ziel dieser Strategien ist es zum einen, den Energie- und Ressourcenverbrauch bei der Herstellung, Nutzung und Entsorgung zu minimieren (green in ICT), und zum anderen, durch die Nutzung von ICT Energie und sonstige Ressourcen einzusparen (green through ICT). Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, müssen Anreize gegeben werden und Einsichten vermittelt werden, um zum Beispiel den Nutzer davon zu überzeugen, nicht genutzte Computer auszuschalten statt sie im Stand-By-Modus zu betreiben.
Die Implementierung von »Green ICT« steckt in Deutschland, verglichen mit Großbritannien, vor allem in Bildungseinrichtungen noch in den Kinderschuhen. Um ein erfolgreich durchgeführtes Projekt näher kennen zu lernen, und den internationalen Erfahrungsaustausch zu befördern, hat das Institut Technik und Bildung (ITB) Experten aus Großbritannien, die am »Green ICT«-Projekt ECCILES beteiligt waren, eingeladen.
Hiermit wird die direkte und indirekte Reduzierung des Energieverbrauches eines Computers, eine Analyse der (Wirk-) Faktoren die zum An bzw. Abstieg des Energieverbrauches führen, die Entwicklung von Lösungsansätzen für diese Problemstellung und die Durchführung von Energiereduktionsmaßnahmen bezweckt. Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

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