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Outcome of the
World Café @ ITU Seventh ITU Symposium
on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
29 May 2012, Montreal, Canada
Saba Imru
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
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Goal
• Working session of the ITU Seventh Symposium
on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
• Ensure active involvement of all participants
• Create the foundations for the “future we want”
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Overall figures
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Over 100 participants
Three conversation rounds
Duration 3 hrs
A total of 246 ideas were
generated
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Question 1
How can we best use ICTs to address
environmental challenges including
climate change and e-waste?
What resources do we have and what
role can our organizations play?
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Outcome of Question 1
Total of ideas: 92
Trends:
•E-waste, smart recycling
•Capacity-building
•Mitigation
•Applications
•Tools to enhance environmental sustainability
•Barriers
•Methodologies
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Question 2
What are the most important
dimensions of greening through ICTs,
which of these will have the greatest
impact and what are the priorities?
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Outcome of Question 2
Total of ideas : 63
Trends:
• Advocacy
• Political will
• Awareness-raising
• Behavioral changes
• Monitoring
• Adaptation
• Smart-grids, smart-buildings, smart-traffic
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Townhall: best use of ICTs and
prioritization
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Standardization, universal equipment
Harmonization of policies
Political will
Economic and law aspects
Priorities based on what can be afforded
Impact of ICTs on transport
Smart cities
Awareness
Digital divide & environmental
sustainability
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Question 3
What do you propose as essential next
steps and actions?
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Outcome of Question 3
Total of ideas: 91
Trends:
•Access to ICTs
•Standards
•Policies
•E-waste
•Funding and incentives
•Partnerships and collaboration
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Townhall: Actions
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ICTs to monitor the environment
ICTs to reduce energy consumption
Incentives for behavioral change
E-applications
Promote eco-design
Expand research
Use of energy sources
Smart-Grids, Cloud Computing
Gamification
Funding and incentives
Plan of Action, declaration
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Townhall: Actions
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Multidisciplinary approach
ITU to become a World café
Standardization and methodologies
Include ICTs and CC in UNFCCC, WTSA, Rio+20
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Townhall: Experiences
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Feedback
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Feedback forms received: 48
Level of satisfaction 5: 28
Level of satisfaction 4: 18
Level of satisfaction 3: 2
Recommend using World Café again: 44
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Visual Summary : Best use of ICTs, Roles, Impact, Priorities
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Visual Summary : Next Steps Towards the Future We Want
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Next steps
• A detailed report of the World Café outcome with transcript of all the
input ideas
• A photo collection of the World Café event and doodles
• Outcome shared by participants in their organization
• Outcome transmitted to the next relevant events:
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Rio+ 20
ITU Green Standards Week, September 2012
WTSA-12, November 2012
UNFCC, December 2012
ITU 8th Symposium, 2013
and other International Fora
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Thank you !
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