Workshop Session Code to be assigned later:
" A Greener Web: Isn't it Time you Worked on your Environmental Policy?"
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" A Greener Web: Isn't it Time you Worked on your Environmental Policy?".
- Title:
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A Greener Web: Isn't it Time you Worked on your Environmental Policy?
- Facilitator:
- Eddie
Young, UKOLN, University of Bath
- Abstract:
- The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity to discuss the environmental
impact of running a computer network, including desktop workstations, Office
servers and Web servers. We hope to cover a wide range of topics, from disposal
of equipment, buying new hardware, Web-conferencing, remote working, and
eco-friendlier server architecture. Does the internet contribute to excessive/unnecessary
energy usage? Can technology and the Web be used to reduce energy consuption
for an organisation? If so how?
- Discussion Ideas:
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- Energy consumption of servers (and server rooms) and desktops. What
can you do about it?
- Getting rid of old equipment, Buying new equipment. What to look out
for, what are the ways to do it? (recycle? re-use? Burn? Sell abroad?
etc)
- Travel costs, reducing traveling within an organisiation (reducing
your Air Miles, and fuel costs?)
- Can Technology save us? (will something be invented in the future
that will solve some of these problems?)
- What part does the internet play?
- Learning Objectives:
- The session is intended to help Web Managers work out what issues they
may need to consider when putting together an environmental policy for their
workplace, taking into consideration both the financial and green agendas.
- Rating:
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