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Green IT cities & The Green
Digital Charter
Nikolaos Kontinakis
EUROCITIES, senior projects coordinator
nikolaos.kontinakis@eurocities.eu
ICTFOOTPRINT.eu final event
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ICT has a large potential
to help cities become
greener (more energy
efficient &
environmentally friendly)
Adding more ICT (power
law increase) results in a
considerable carbon and
environmental footprint for
ICT itself
Gains are expected to be a multiple of the losses
Still…
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Why is it difficult to have ‘green IT
cities’?
“ICT promises to solve our problems, how can it be a
problem in itself?”
Cities don’t understand the size of the problem
‘ICT Environment Financial’ departments
Standard methodologies are usually difficult, demanding
and time-consuming to apply
Difficult to calculate gains and losses of a given solution
Many of the solutions require a re-thinking and
behavioural change
…benefits are unclear and green IT is never a priority
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What is the Green Digital Charter?
The Green Digital Charter aims to improve the quality of
life in cities through the use of digital solutions.
Four commitments undersigned by the signatory-cities:
- Work with other Green Digital Charter signatories to promote
the best applications and results of ICT solutions
- Establish local partnerships to implement the Green Digital
Charter 's commitments, and to make these central elements of
the cities' wider strategies
- Deploy five large-scale and replicable ICT pilots per city within
five years and communicating the impact of these to citizens
and local stakeholders
- Decrease the direct carbon footprint of the ICT sector by 30%
per city within ten years.
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Show me some results!
A guidebook for peer-to-peer learning for cities
- http://bit.ly/2zXlA1g
Three collections of city projects
- http://bit.ly/1WRlewh
10 webinars, 3 trainings and 2 work-shadowing events
- http://bit.ly/26jm0YK
Awards to the best city projects
- http://anyflip.com/zerr/iamx
More than 40 videos with city experts and events
- http://bit.ly/2Rz88aH
An overview of cities’ status towards the GDC objectives
- http://bit.ly/2Plwwey
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Thank you!
www.greendigitalcharter.eu
@GDCharter
Green IT cities & The Green Digital Charter
ICTFOOTPRINT.eu final event
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