Green ICT - Educating the green-collared managers and workers of tomorrow

Bob Crooks, CITP

Chair BCS Green IT SG13 May 2010

Higher Education Academy

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Agenda

•External pressures

•Structural changes

•New workforce skills and capabilities

•Challenges and opportunities

•CITP response

The external pressures...

– Climate Change => warming, disasters(fires and floods), loss of biodiversity, less to go round more

– Population growth, 2000 to 2030 of 2.2billion, of which 2.0billion likely to be located in cities*

– Rising consumption, 5 billion people consume 20% and 1 billion consume 80% (Ericsson)

– Resource depletion, 2.5 planets for all to have US/EU living standards

=> rising energy, food and resource consumption and costs at time of recession

=> “we have to do more with less” (Buckminster-Fuller)

> energy> resources> emissions

*“World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision”, www.unpopulation.org

Leading to...

• Need to sustain economic growth (world economy expected to double by 2030)

=> more emissions demand more efficiency requiring more ICT investments

• “Digital Britain” (Department for Business Innovation and Skills (June 2009))

– “The ability of a Digital Britain to contribute its full potential to our future economic growth is critically dependent on having enough people with the right skills in the right place at the right time to develop and apply the new technologies”.

– “There is to be a new HE Framework ... that will set out clear signals and incentives to universities so that new programmes are established in priority areas and existing programmes re-focused. It will also include the creation of the Skills Funding Agency to ensure that the skills system is prioritising the things that sectors such as digital technology and digital media need.”

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Green-collars!

• “Jobs of the future” (Departments for Business Innovation and Skills and Work and Pensions(Sept 2009))

– “The global market for low carbon and environmental goods and services - said to be worth £3 trillion in 2007/08 - is projected to grow to £4.4 trillion by 2015 . It has been estimated that the UK domestic market alone could achieve growth rates of 4% per year for the next six years, potentially creating 400,000 new green jobs in this sector by the middle of the next decade “.

– “But we can not get to where we want to be in our low carbon future without the skills base to attract investment, drive innovation and win the green-collar jobs on offer. So we are focused on getting the scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs with the skills to help develop commercially-viable, low carbon solutions, as well as equipping employees with new skills such as carbon auditing, energy efficiency and carbon trading to help us make the right energy choices”

– “low carbon economic areas proposed in the North East and South West regions, will combine targeted Government funding with the expertise of local businesses, universities and colleges to help the UK maximise the economic opportunities a low carbon world will offer.”

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Carbon gets a value!

• To drive carbon emission reductions need to get Carbon onto Company Accounts!

– For Large Orgs :

- ETS => CCA => CRC

- Carbon reporting and trading with cost penalties to drive change

- Trickle down the supply chain

– Carbon taxes for all

– Energy cost rises for polluting generation methods with premiums for sus energy generation

• And Corporate Social Responsibility reporting will affect us all whether Shareholders or Customers

• Puts green credentials into the marketplace , creating ...

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Demand for awareness and skills

• For organisations to

– Measure ICT’s carbon emission footprints

– Understand the ‘facts’ and not be ‘green-washed’

– Calculate impacts of changing and introducing new internal and external activities

– Identify and exploit opportunities for new lower energy more sustainable solutions

– Move out of the Estates/Travel comfort zone to tackle internal and external process redesign, ICT needed to support

- Leaner, more agility, flatter orgs

- Greater utilisation of existing assets through a service rather than a supply model, eg Cloud computing, Software as a Service...

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Futerra Green Washing report – @ http://www.futerra.co.uk/

Leading Edge Forum : Seeing the whole energy picture

Digital Reduced Smart Building Real-time GNP Transportation Products Controls Measurement

Electricity Emissions Recycling Chemicals Water

IT Production ~ 4%

IT Usage ~ 2%

IT Application >90%

Challenge for academic institutions

• Get our own house in order

• Footprint work of JISC and EAUC (http://www.susteit.org.uk/files/category.php?catID=4)

• Gov Green ICT Strategy (http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/cio/greening_government_ict.aspx)

• Being refreshed and extended to the whole public sector

• 20 top tip best practices

• Procurement – Government Buying Standards (ex Quick Wins)

• Gov ICT Strategy – again for whole public sector – see (www.civilservice.gov.uk/it)

• Reduce number of data centres

• Longer term move to a G-Cloud

• Applications store

• Public Sector Network

• Single device

• Become leaders and exemplars in our local communities

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Top tip best practices

Usertops (PCs, laptops, Thin clients)

=> Remove active screensavers, use standby power modes, shut down after hours

Peripherals (Printers, copiers, monitors)

=> Use standby power modes, shut down after hours,

Printing

=> Adopt print minimising settings eg condense, grey scale, b/w not colour

Consolidate devices, increase sharing

Storage and disks

Rationalise applications

Virtualisation

=> Maximise utilisation

=> Sign up to EU Code of Conduct best practices for energy efficient data centres

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And for HE courses/studies

• New Green IT qualifications

– Doctorates

– MSc

• Embed in existing training and education

– MBAs

– Finance and Accounting

– Business Studies

– Project and Programme Management

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eg Government IT Profession

• HMG taking forward work to embed Green IT skills and awareness into Career Development paths for Gov IS professionals

• Early work and proposals around SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information Age) suggest new skill sets/roles of

– Green IT Strategist

- Greening architectures

- Adoption of HMG Green IT Strategies

– Green IT accountants/valuers

- Measurement

- Accounting for energy and carbon in business cases and accounts

– Green IT Management

- Flow down and embedding of green IT into internal working practices eg for project/programme approvals, realising green benefits

– Green IT Design/solutioning

- Designing for efficient solutioning using Green IT concepts and embracing technology, behaviour and working practice changes

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ICT Technologies(personal, peripheral, comms, server)

ICT Services(Helpdesk, apps development)

Valuations Procurement Business operations

Business Products and Services

Metrics/Information

Energy efficiencies, footprint calcs, coeffs/conversion factors

Green Costing , end to end PAS 2050

Valuing emissions

Carbon/energy accounting

Footprint calcs, env. audits, EMI

Footprint calcs

Regs/Standards/ Int Agreements

Regs (EU CoC, WEEE)Standards (ISOs, BSIs)

ITIL, CMM Off-setting, PAS 2060CRC

Gov /OGC /EU,Disposal WEEE etcStandards: EPEAT, ECMA

Targets (Kyoto, EU, UK Gov..), Quality stds, Reporting

Regs (EU CoC, WEEE)Standards (ISOs, BSIs)

Economics TCO, lifecycle green costing, a ‘green premium’? Consolidation Dematerialisation

Green Costing , end to end, Apps stores, SaaS

Carbon market mechanisms, cap and trade. Carbon profit?

Valuing greener purchases vs sweating the asset move from assets to services?

Energy accounting/ Carbon accounting

Carbon neutrality?

Environment Manufacture, in use, disposal impacts, packaging,

How to deliver in green ways, transport, property impacts

Market valuing - assessment of env impacts?

Lifecycle impacts, valuing the embedded, replacement/upgrade/extension

Green buildings, power supply, water

Visibility of impacts

Social/ethics Org/personal boundaries Scope of footprints,

Self-service, servicing mobile and home working

Out-source/off-shore carbon reductions

Developing country impacts, off-shoring options assessments

CSR, community exchanges

Green washing

People How they use kit,What they use kit to doMeetings, psychology

Choice of service delivery (...

Personal carbon quota

Behaviour change training

Corporate and staff behaviours influence

Green IT Learning Grid?

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But it is not all about technology!

Some observations on us...

– Want to save the polar bears.. but– Fickle, sensitive to Press/Media on spur of the moment, but – Hard to change established behaviours, though recognise the need

- in all the manifestos!– We can make a difference as individuals?

- Save power, switch-off devices, low energy modes- Reduce transport impacts

– Walk /bike not car– Rail not plane– Home or mobile working

- Sweat the assets and recycle– But we don’t

- Recession forces other priorities- Its too little too late?

Why we want to doubt its us?

• Climate change is disturbing.

• We don’t have to see the impact in everyday life.

• At time of more information and awareness, we become defensive to create a sense of a good, safe world for ourselves, we screen it out or create doubt.

• If I don’t want to believe that climate change is true, that my lifestyle and high carbon emissions are causing devastation, so convenient to say that it doesn’t.

• People stop paying attention to climate change when they realize there’s no easy solution. People judge as serious only those problems for which actions can be taken. Stanford University psychologist Jon Krosnick

• Our sense of permanence is threatened, and a sense of guilt is held at bay

=> So we don’t want to believe climate change is happening, feel guilty that it is, and don’t know what to do about it? So we pretend it’s not a problem?

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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/ article\The Psychology of Climate Change Denial

Interview between Brandon Keim (Wired) and Kari Marie Norgaard, a Whitman College sociologist

In conclusion..

• Significant external pressures driving structural changes and demand for energy and carbon efficiency

• Managing a green IT programme requires new skills and knowledge to be able to utilise IT to meet those demands

– Akin to finance accounting

– Plus designing and managing changes in systems and processes that take advantage of ICT’s powers for enabling efficiencies

• Ready opportunity for HE to grow into this sector with new courses and by embedding Green IT within existing programmes

• And finally...

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what your BCS/CITP is doing...

• Green Specialist Group

– 800 members and growing

– Briefings eg Measurement, Image compression and Recycling/Disposal

– Green News Shoots and Wikispace

– Events

- EcoComputing Bar Camp : 3 July , BCS HQ, Southampton Street, 11.30 to 19.30 and free lunch!

– Education

- Foundation Certificate

– In UK with IQIA til Oct 2010 then other suppliers join

– Abroad

- A Green IT book just published!

- Investigating Diploma qualification

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And more...

• Data Centre SG

– 2,000 members

– Leading players for CoC

– Data centre modelling tool

– Data Centre Foundation Certificate

• Carbon Footprint Working group

– Invitees

– Facing industry and organisations

– Eg Home working project

• Appointment of a BCS HQ Green Leader

• To join a Specialist Group check - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5815

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‘You must be the change

you seek in others’

And remember...

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Thank you – any questions?