10 april 2023

(De)Energizing egovernmentFrom green talkto green action

Green eGov conference

Steven Luitjens, director LogiusJoris Gresnigt CSR Officer Logius

Agenda

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1. Why green gov with green egov?

2. How green egov?

3. What green egov?

• Greening by egov• Greening of egov

1. Why green gov with green egov?

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1. Why green gov with green egov?ENERGIZING

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2. How green egov?

A. Standardise, do not compete on infrastructureDuplication of effort = waste environment + tax

B.Use power of IT to smartly redesign processesNot automating existing processes

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3a Greening by egov services

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Input

Sustainable Sustainable Standard Standard Cost ModelCost Model

an innovative 2 edged swordan innovative 2 edged sword

Sustainable standard cost model•Compare two scenario’s: 100% paper vs (partly) digital

• Calculate ecological and financial impact

• Using activity based costing = administrative burden already used

• Using Ecoivent database for CO2 nummers (travel, ink, paper etc)

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Economy& Ecology

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Example e-invoices: financial

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Example e-invoices: ecological

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•Hard to get good numbers• Depends on assumptions• It’s just a start

3b Greening of egov services: why?IT huge environmental impact.

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Applications are like……

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NO

Want: insight & reduction

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OF?manage

Focus on application

Hardware consumes energy

Why?

Because software tells it to.

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Focus on application

Wirth’s Law a.k.a. the great Moore’s Law compensator:

“SOFTWARE IS GETTING SLOWER MORE RAPIDLY THAN HARDWARE BECOMES FASTER.” Niklaus Wirth, “A Plea for Lean Software”, Computer 28, 1995

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Shift

Reduction loss in energy chain

Reduction demand computing resources

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Energy foot print

1 Kwh saves 24 euro

Application Total Trans RE

Digipoort 153.509 kWh 1,27 Wh 34%

DigiD Machtigen 12.800 kWh 38 Wh 11%

Towards energy label services & benchmark

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App Total Trans RE

Citizens portal NL 50,000kwh 1 wh 20%

Citizens portal IT 70,000kwh1,5 wh 35%

Citizens portal GE 40,000kwh 3 wh 21%

Gov authentication app NL 150,000kwh2,2 wh 30%

Gov authentication app IT 75,000kwh1,8 wh 20%

Gov authentication app GE 250,000kwh2,6 wh 80%

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Summary

•A smart government is a green government: greening makes real business sense •IT is part of the problem, but also part of the solution• Form coalitions of the willing, commercial and public•Go ahead and try new things, steal from others

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GREEN ME UP SCOTTY 2.0

Questions?

joris.gresnigt@logius.nl