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Sherin Shoukry - Director
Information & Networking DivisionCOMESA SECRETARIAT
2 -3 November 2010Cairo, Egypt
COMESAGreen ICT
How can WE Help Save the Planet?
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THEME:
“Applying ICT’s effectively for socio-economic development”
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THEMETHEMETHEMETHEME
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Burundi, Comoros, DR Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda,Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland,Uganda,Zambia, Zimbabwe
Pop. - 430m
GDP - $472b
Area - 11.6m km2
Total Trade - $308bSource: COMSTAT Database
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ABOUT COMESAABOUT COMESAABOUT COMESAABOUT COMESA
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• Customs Union with a CET• Monetary Union• Common Investment Area• 2025 – Fully integrated, internationally
competitive regional economic community with high standards of living for all its people
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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES/MILESTONESSTRATEGIC OBJECTIVES/MILESTONESSTRATEGIC OBJECTIVES/MILESTONESSTRATEGIC OBJECTIVES/MILESTONES
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D V IS IO N S D IV IS IO N S D IV IS IO N S D IV IS IO N S D IV IS IO N S
S E C R E T A R Y G E N E R A L
C O U N C IL O F M IN IS T E R S
A U T H O R IT Y
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ORGANISATION CHARTORGANISATION CHARTORGANISATION CHARTORGANISATION CHART
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• European Union• USAID• African Capacity Building Foundation
(ACBF)• Commonwealth Secretariat• African Development Bank (ADB)• UNECA
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CO-OPERATING PARTNERSCO-OPERATING PARTNERSCO-OPERATING PARTNERSCO-OPERATING PARTNERS
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E-Legislation Programme• Have e-Waste in e-Legislation programme
• Concept Paper prepared
• COMESA Secretariat should conduct a study to draw up a model policy on e-Waste for the region
• Contact made with UNEP and Basel Convention. • MoU obtained from STEP initiative. • Collaborating with COMESA Climate Change Unit
• To tackle more broadly on Green ICT
COUNCIL DECISIONSCOUNCIL DECISIONSCOUNCIL DECISIONSCOUNCIL DECISIONS
“Movement towards designing environmentally friendly and resource-efficient ICT products over their entire life cycle, from system design and component manufacturing to usage and recycling of the equipment.” www.crbericht.telekom.de
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GREEN ICTGREEN ICTGREEN ICTGREEN ICT
Table(Relative CO2 emissions of data centres against housing and international travel)
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SOURCE kWh / Year CO2 (kg) equivalent
CO2 ratio Carbon (kg)
Large Data Center
43, 200,000 18, 576, 000 1 5, 071, 248
Small Data Center
8, 640,000 3, 715, 200 5 436, 127
Household Consumption
24, 711 5, 799 3, 200 1, 583
Transatlantic flight
1, 006 18, 000 275
Source: SCF Associates Estimates, UK Department of Trade and Industry
WHY ICT IS A MAJOR FACTORWHY ICT IS A MAJOR FACTORWHY ICT IS A MAJOR FACTORWHY ICT IS A MAJOR FACTOR
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Secretariat
Regionally
E-Waste Legislation Guidelines
E-Waste Recycling Center
Virtualisation
Printing Policy
S.O.S.
Secretariat-Reduce power, cooling and real estate costs for data center
-Cloud Computing
-Printer Rationalisation
-Low power, low heat notebooks?
Regional-Regulatory requirements and legislative actions
-Smart Grid
- Sign to international Conventions
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Tele-/Video-conferencing
INITIATIVESINITIATIVESINITIATIVESINITIATIVES
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• A virtual machine is a tightly isolated software container that can run its own operating systems and applications as if it were a physical computer. A virtual machine behaves exactly like a physical computer and contains it own virtual (ie, software-based) CPU, RAM hard disk and network interface card (NIC).
WHAT IS A VIRTUAL MACHINE?WHAT IS A VIRTUAL MACHINE?WHAT IS A VIRTUAL MACHINE?WHAT IS A VIRTUAL MACHINE?
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WHY VIRTUALIZE?WHY VIRTUALIZE?WHY VIRTUALIZE?WHY VIRTUALIZE?
1- It is considered green1- It is considered green
2- Cost saving2- Cost saving
3- It is a way to create space3- It is a way to create space
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COMESA INFRASTRUCTURECOMESA INFRASTRUCTURECOMESA INFRASTRUCTURECOMESA INFRASTRUCTURE
No central management server available
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SHARED RESOURCESSHARED RESOURCESSHARED RESOURCESSHARED RESOURCES
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Climate Change Unit Admin Division
Basel Convention UNEP(StEP
Initiative)
Member States ??????
•PROJECTS•FUNDING•…
OUR PARTNERSOUR PARTNERSOUR PARTNERSOUR PARTNERS
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•Automatic Shutdown of desktops/laptops after hours
•Black screens or Static Screensavers instead of active screensavers
•Measure power consumption of ICT as a component of total power use
•Reduce number of printed pages per employee per month
•Include green ICT requirements in procurement RFP’s
• Procure more energy efficient equipment(e.g. laptops consume ¼ power of a desktop and less raw material.)
•Thin clients and Virtualisation
•Energy efficient standards
•Carbon calculator for meetings
Immediate Medium Term Longer Term
QUICK WINSQUICK WINSQUICK WINSQUICK WINS
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Region Mean Mean(pieces) (tonnes)
Africa 1'609'100 38'600
Country Mean Mean(pieces) (tonnes)
Kenya 35'700 900Uganda 14'000 300
Table: Estimated number of obsolete PCs in specific regions and countries in 2005. SOURCE: Assessment of e-waste flows: a probabilistic approach to quantify e-waste based on world ICT and
development indicators by Esther Müller, Mathias Schluep, Rolf Widmer, Fadri Gottschalk and Heinz Böni Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Laboratory for Technology and Society, CH-9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland
E-WASTE STATISTICS IN M/STATESE-WASTE STATISTICS IN M/STATESE-WASTE STATISTICS IN M/STATESE-WASTE STATISTICS IN M/STATES
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Benefits:• Hazardous to humans • Destroys the environment
Requirements:• Funding to finance some aspects of the law like collection and
processing of e-waste. • Countries may explore existing Funds or create a Fund for this
purpose. An ICT Fund or Universal Access /Service Funds could be created /amended to allow for financing implementation of this law.
E-WASTE LEGISLATION FOR M/STATESE-WASTE LEGISLATION FOR M/STATESE-WASTE LEGISLATION FOR M/STATESE-WASTE LEGISLATION FOR M/STATES
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Think Green!
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Thank you.