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Play ball! Green budget, efficiency savings, and the future of ID Cards

Wednesday, 29 April, 2009

First, following up from my last blog entry where I was a little sceptical towards what the budget would bring in terms of greenness. Apparently, this budget is the ‘world’s first carbon budget’ that aims to ‘provide businesses with the certainty they need to justify investment in low carbon technologies and help create hundreds of thousands of high-value jobs’ with ‘over £1.4 billion of extra targeted support in the low-carbon sector.’ However, some say that this supposedly green budget is nothing more than a ‘whitewash’. And although the rest of the budget was highly criticised all over the media world, the ICT industry saw some benefits as identified by Intellect.

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Is green IT catching the banking disease?

Wednesday, 22 April, 2009

A colleague of mine sent me a story that, if it turns out to be the harsh truth, can have a significant impact on the technology industry’s role in fighting climate change. According to research analyst Gartner, “2009 will be a gap year for green projects lacking a short-term cost-cutting and efficiency focus.” Signs of a weakened interest in green IT were visible as early as last year when Green IT was moved from first (in 2008) to tenth (for 2009) place in Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies list.

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The Green IT World at CeBit 2009 – I hope the grass is greener on the other side!

Wednesday, 8 April, 2009

The spotlight for this year’s CeBit exhibition, my first, was on ‘higher efficiency and lower costs in all areas of business IT’. Interestingly enough, however, little attention (in relation to the entire exhibition) was paid to the Green IT World, though increased efficiency and lowered costs are two definitive green IT mantras.

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