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”
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ABOUT COMESA
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
- $308b
Source: COMSTAT Database
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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES/MILESTONES
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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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ORGANISATION CHART
AUTHORITY
COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
SECRETARY GENERAL
DVISIONS
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DIVISIONS
DIVISIONS
DIVISIONS
DIVISIONS
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CO-OPERATING PARTNERS
• European Union
• USAID
• African Capacity Building Foundation
(ACBF)
• Commonwealth Secretariat
• African Development Bank (ADB)
• UNECA
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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
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GREEN ICT
“Movement towards designing
environmentally friendly and resourceefficient 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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WHY ICT IS A MAJOR FACTOR
Table
(Relative CO2 emissions of data centres against housing and international
travel)
SOURCE
kWh / Year
CO2 (kg)
equivalent
CO2 ratio
Carbon (kg)
Large Data
Center
43, 200,000
18, 576, 000
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5, 071, 248
Small Data
Center
8, 640,000
3, 715, 200
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436, 127
Household
Consumption
24, 711
5, 799
3, 200
1, 583
1, 006
18, 000
275
Transatlantic
flight
Source: SCF Associates Estimates, UK Department of Trade and Industry
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INITIATIVES
Secretariat
-Reduce power,
cooling and real
estate costs for
data center
-Cloud
Computing
-Printer
Rationalisation
-Low power, low
heat
notebooks?
Regionally
E-Waste
Legislation
Guidelines
Secretariat
Virtualisation
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Printing Policy
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Tele-/VideoS.O.S. conferencing
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Regional
-Regulatory
requirements
and legislative
actions
-Smart Grid
E-Waste
Recycling
Center
- Sign to
international
Conventions
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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).
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WHY VIRTUALIZE?
1- It is considered green
2- Cost saving
3- It is a way to create space
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COMESA INFRASTRUCTURE
No central management
server available
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SHARED RESOURCES
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OUR PARTNERS
Climate Change Unit
Admin Division
Basel Convention
UNEP
(StEP Initiative)
•PROJECTS
•FUNDING
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Member States
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QUICK WINS
Immediate
Medium Term
•Automatic
Shutdown of
desktops/laptops
after hours
•Reduce number
of printed pages
per employee per
month
•Black screens or
Static
Screensavers
instead of active
screensavers
•Include green
ICT requirements
in procurement
RFP’s
•Measure power
consumption of
ICT as a
component of
total power use
• Procure more
energy efficient
equipment
(e.g. laptops consume
Longer Term
•Thin clients
and
Virtualisation
•Energy
efficient
standards
•Carbon
calculator for
meetings
¼ power of a desktop
and less raw material.)
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E-WASTE STATISTICS IN M/STATES
Region
Mean
(pieces)
Mean
(tonnes)
Africa
1'609'100
38'600
Country
Mean
(pieces)
Mean
(tonnes)
Kenya
Uganda
35'700
14'000
900
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
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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.
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Think Green!
Thank you.
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