The other day I got a message from my friend Albert Hankel at SURF in the Netherlands. SURF is the Dutch equivalent of Jisc. Albert told me that SURF and colleagues in Dutch higher education had been working on a “Green ICT Maturity Model” as part of SURF’s programme of work on Green ICT. The … Read more
Last Wednesday we had the latest in the webinar series that Jisc is running in association with the EAUC. This one was “Efficient Buildings – or Heat and Light by Timetable“. Follow the link for a recording of the webinar or have a look at the associated guide. One of the ‘ah-ah’ moments in this … Read more
We are at the University of York for a workshop to start the process of engagement around the developing outputs from the Costs of IT Services project (CITS). The fundamental question is “how much does your IT cost?” Not, how much is in the budget, but how much does it actually cost. How much does … Read more
Following the successful initial webinar on 14th November on the subject of engaging users (staff and students) in environmental initiatives – particularly those involving the use of dashboards or other electronic means to display energy usage. You can find the recording of the webinar and the associated Jisc guide here: http://www.sustainabilityexchange.ac.uk/exchanges/1630-jisc-1-engaging-users-141113webinar-book-now http://www.jisc.ac.uk/engaging-users-to-reduce-energy-use The next webinar … Read more
Along with our friends at the Sustainability Exchange, Jisc is putting together a set of webinars to wrap up some of the salient findings from the Greening ICT Programme. The first webinar of the series is on the 14th November – and is on the subject of Engaging Users – or “Energy Dashboards are not … Read more
In case you missed it, there is a new blog post on the Jisc corporate blog that gives my appreciation of some of the key issues that arose from the recent workshop on Understanding and minimising the costs of data centre based IT services at the University of Liverpool on June 17th. I don’t want to … Read more
Drawing together a number of threads of the Greening ICT Programme, Jisc, in association with our partners in the EU funded e-Infranet initiative are running a free one day workshop on this subject in Liverpool on the 17th June. What we will be doing is looking at some of the economic and financial constraints on DC … Read more
I was reviewing some of our events for some briefing papers and the like that I am hoping to get moving on shortly, and was looking again at the “Storified” write-ups of the events we held over the last 18th months on various topics in Green ICT. If you don’t know what Storify is, its … Read more
Register here: https://survey.jisc.ac.uk/jisc_eucoc As part of its Greening ICT Programme, JISC is pleased to invite interested parties to a series of briefings about the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres. The Code of Conduct was launched by Defra and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in 2008 in recognition by the EC that data … Read more
Two bits of good news this week about recognition and/or further take up of the work of the Greening ICT Programme. First up on Monday morning was news from the team at De Montfort (Richard Bull, et al) who ran the DUALL and Greenview projects. First of all they have had a paper accepted for … Read more