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8/3/2019 Government IT Conference Updated
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Ambassador G WALLACE HOPEAdvisor to UAE Government on Green and
Liquidity
Founding Director - Queen of Green FZE
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IT for Government 20114th and 5th October
Dubai, UAE
• Green Leadership for the Middle East• Waste in the Middle East• What is Green IT? An overview• Understand the definition of 'Green IT'• Understand the overall need for an organization to adopt
a Green IT Strategy• Understand the main goals and objectives of Green IT• Cost benefits• Operational Green IT• Reputation and Culture
• Roles and Responsibilities• Monitoring and measurement• New apps empower preventative Green IT• E-gov and M-apps = Empowerment
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Green Leadership for MiddleEast
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Real waste in MENA
MENA
• 100 million unemployed youth – waste of investment in education, skills and talent
UAE• No 1 Water Security – 1600% more
consumption
• No 2 Food Security – 3 weeks supply• No 3 Energy Security – self consumption of
30% when this can earn export dollars
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Carbon Emissions for MENA
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Carbon Emissions by MENAresidents
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Water Usage
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What is Green IT? Anoverview
An IT Company or Dept operated with wastereduction, conservation, environment and
sustainability BUILT
into the everyday design, practices and processes
to joyfully balance
nature, technology, business and economy.
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Understand the definition of 'Green IT'
• Critical conservation, waste management,energy conservation, environment,sustainability and profitability of a company
or Dept.• Clients and customers care and ask about
your Green policies and if you put theminto practice. Too many pretty brochuresand not enough action.
• Invisible costs and inefficiencies create themost waste and consume the most costs.
d d h ll d
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Understand the overall needfor an organization to adopt a
Green IT Strategy
• Conserve natural resources - water, energy, treesetc
• Reduce waste - water, lighting, heating, air con,
costs• Prevent pollution - CO2, emissions, chemicals
• Recycle - effective recycling of water, materials andwaste
• Improve - environment, O2, beauty, bottom line
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Cost benefits
Cost benefits can be obtained by:• Converting the building from an
energy consumer to
an energy generator
• Devising a Step by Step plan that
employees own and have fun implementing
• Mass collaboration on each step
• Publish real-time results of behaviour change
• Share the cost saving benefits e.g. savings from lightbulbs re-invested in fresh juices available foremployees that improve their Vitamin and Mineralintake
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Cumulative effects of asystems approach
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Recycling your Computers
The importance of Recycling your Computers:Computers and other electronic items make uparound 2% of all of the materials in today's landfills.We know that recycling monitors and computers is
important, as the landfills are not getting anysmaller. These items contain lead and toxic metalsthat can cause serious damage to the environment,particularly if they end up in the water supply.
Development of the information and communicationtechnologies (ICT) in the Arab region
reduces demand on transport and thus reducing
GHG emissions.
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Reputation and Culture
Embracing a social media programto share each step withemployees,clients, customers, contractors andsuppliers has a ripple effect and
unleashes green creativity that can beapplied to the whole Global SupplyChain.
A Green IT culture stimulates theheart chakra and provides a happier,
healthierworkplace, internal and external relationships. When
you put the environment and human assets at thecenter of your Green IT policy flow improves, solutions
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Roles and Responsibilities
Board of Directors setting the policy andpracticing it themselves.
Management actively encouraging employeecollaboration.
Employees focused on what they can
improveStakeholders invited to share improvementsand their experiences.
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Monitoring and measurement
Monitoring existing bills, conservation andreduction in real time.
Measurement of ‘before’ and ‘after’
displayed in charts and images.
Knowledge transferred and shared withstakeholders and the world to demonstratewhat is possible.
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,unemployed women in KSAwith green IT
E G d M
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E-Gov and M-apps =Empowerment
HRH King Al Saud wanted a program to empower 200,000
unemployed women as part of the Social Fund for KSA
Queen of Green developed ‘business in a box’ – a micro-enterprise selected from their phone, delivered to their
home with m-video, m-payments and m-banking to provide
a real-time, paperless system with zero environmental
impact
Scale and speed – all women can access the knowledge
transfer, systems, payments and support from their mobile
phone.
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Queen of Green FZE
SAIF, Sharjah, UAE
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +971 552 396818