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9G-ICTGreen Information & Communications Technologies

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GREEN ICT GREEN ICT INITIATIVEINITIATIVEGreen Information &

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Reduce Global Warming

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Partnership for Research on Microelectronics, Photonics and Telecommunications between Quebec universities & Industry;

A non-profit corporation that stimulates industry-university R&D partnerships to increase the competitiveness of Quebec’s ICT sector– Brokers with cash;– Since 2003, stimulated 50 partnerships with researchers at 11

Quebec-based universities and more than 40 industry partners, valued at more than $30M in cash contributions to universities;

– Funded by Quebec Government, Industry and NSERC;– Current program value (2008-2010): $14M;– Program focus: Microelectronics; photonics; multimedia, wireless

technologies, telecommunications networks & services; software;– Only 3 full-time employees, headquartered in Montreal

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Why a Green NGI – and Green ICT?

Source: Bill St-Arnaud, CANARIE

The Challenge:• It is estimated that the ICT industry produces CO2 emissions that is

equivalent to the entire aviation industry• ICT is 5th largest industry in power consumption (2% to 6%)• Fastest growth of any sector in society, doubling every 4 years• One small server generates as much CO2 as a 15 mpg SUV• 40% of servers at universities and businesses are under utilized by more

than 50%• ICT may achieve up to 90% of Kyoto targets (Ex: savings in energy and

carbon offsets)

The Opportunity: • ICTs and related applications have the potential to decrease greenhouse

emissions by as much as 15% and save global industry $US 800 billion in annual energy costs by 2020

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© Prompt inc. Prompt G-ICT : Activities overview - 2009

G-ICTGreen Information & Communications Technologies

International Mobilization in 2008

International Telecom Union initiative on ICTs & climate change:

• Targets future ICT standardization with a ‘Green perspective;

• Prompt involved in launch workshops (April, June).Climate Change Group report on the 2020 low carbon economy:

• Internet and ICT could reduce emissions by 15%;

• Save global industry $US800B in annual energy costs by 2020;

• Could cut CO2 by current annual emissions of US or China;

• Virtualization & de-materialization of existing physical products and services.

And many others are sounding alarms…

Sources: ITU & Smart 2020

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Prompt’s G-ICT Vision

Proposed Solution:• A distributed Canadian National initiative devoted to R&D and the

commercialization of ICT technologies and applications that reduce greenhouse gas emissions

• Regroup existing Canadian expertise• University, business and consumer

applications:• Exploitation of renewable energy

sites through optical networks & co-location of data centers

• Network technologies to deploy zero carbon networks

• Zero carbon virtual network testbed • Commercialization of ICTs via

carbon credit mechanisms

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1. Inform Industry & Governments

• September 19th 2008 workshop in Palo Alto;

• October 26th & 27th 2008 CCSIP Summit

• October 28th 2008 workshop in Montreal.

• January 21st workshop in San Diego.

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• Canada California Strategic Innovation Partnership (CCSIP);

• UCSD, UBC and Prompt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their campuses & develop a "green cyber-infrastructure“

– ISO 14064, new network and distributed computing architectures, Green testbed, relocation of resources to renewable energy sites, etc.

• Expand MoU to other organizations such as EDUCAUSE, CENIC, Compute Canada, CANARIE, and CUCCIO

2. Support Infrastructure Development

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3. Support Industry & University R&D

Initiatives on router, optical, W/Wless and distributed computing architectures, applications, grids, clouds, Web services, virtualization, dematerialization, remote instrumentation and sensors, etc.

Share infrastructure & maximize lower cost power with CANARIE’s “following wind & sun”.

Sources: GENI and Inocybe

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• MoU also to explore virtual carbon trading systems where carbon offsets are traded for access to grid computational cycles, wide area network bandwidth, research funding and or other virtual services;

• Creation of a multi-sector pilot of a generalized ICT carbon trading system including government, industry, and universities;

• C3E CECR project with ICT focus on Energy Efficiency platforms, Green Data Center, ICT Eco-Energy solutions & CO2 business model.

4. Explore CO2 business model

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Prompt’s NationalGreen ICT Initiative

Using ICTs to Reduce Global Warming

Charles Despins, PhD, Eng.President & CEO, Prompt+514.875.0032 ext. [email protected]

For Additional Information

Jacques Mc Neill, mbaNGI Project [email protected]

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