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Sherin Shoukry - Director Information & Networking Division COMESA SECRETARIAT 2 -3 November 2010

COMESA Green ICT How can WE Help Save the Planet?. Sherin Shoukry - Director Information & Networking Division COMESA SECRETARIAT 2 -3 November 2010 Cairo, Egypt. THEME. THEME:. “Applying ICT’s effectively for socio-economic development”. 2.

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Sherin Shoukry - Director Information & Networking Division COMESA SECRETARIAT 2 -3 November 2010

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  1. COMESA Green ICT How can WE Help Save the Planet? Sherin Shoukry - Director Information & Networking Division COMESA SECRETARIAT 2 -3 November 2010 Cairo, Egypt

  2. THEME THEME: “Applying ICT’s effectively for socio-economic development” 2

  3. Burundi, Comoros, DR Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda,Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland,Uganda,Zambia, Zimbabwe ABOUT COMESA Pop. - 430m GDP - $472b Area - 11.6m km2 Total Trade - $308b Source: COMSTAT Database 3

  4. 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 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES/MILESTONES 4

  5. ORGANISATION CHART 5

  6. European Union USAID African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) Commonwealth Secretariat African Development Bank (ADB) UNECA CO-OPERATING PARTNERS 6

  7. COUNCIL DECISIONS 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

  8. GREEN ICT “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

  9. WHY ICT IS A MAJOR FACTOR Table (Relative CO2 emissions of data centres against housing and international travel) Source: SCF Associates Estimates, UK Department of Trade and Industry

  10. INITIATIVES • Secretariat • Reduce power, cooling and real estate costs for data center • Cloud Computing • Printer Rationalisation • Low power, low heat notebooks? Regionally Regional -Regulatory requirements and legislative actions -Smart Grid - Sign to international Conventions E-Waste Legislation Guidelines Secretariat ?? Virtualisation ?? ?? Printing Policy ?? Tele-/Video-conferencing S.O.S. E-Waste Recycling Center ?? ??

  11. WHAT IS A VIRTUAL MACHINE? • 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).

  12. WHY VIRTUALIZE? 1- It is considered green 2- Cost saving 3- It is a way to create space

  13. COMESA INFRASTRUCTURE No central management server available

  14. SHARED RESOURCES

  15. OUR PARTNERS Climate Change Unit Admin Division Basel Convention UNEP (StEP Initiative) Member States ?????? • PROJECTS • FUNDING • …

  16. QUICK WINS Immediate Medium Term Longer Term • 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

  17. E-WASTE STATISTICS IN M/STATES Region Mean Mean (pieces) (tonnes) Africa 1'609'100 38'600 Country Mean Mean (pieces) (tonnes) Kenya 35'700 900 Uganda 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

  18. E-WASTE LEGISLATION FOR M/STATES 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.

  19. Think Green! Thank you. 19

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