Large organisations in Australia are already required to report carbon emissions each year and from 1 July 2012 carbon pricing will be introduced, effecting all organisations. What are the impacts for business and government; for example how will e-Waste regulations effect the disposal of equipment in future. Tom will be undertaking a review of the Greening of Australia and both the responsibilities and the opportunities for individuals and organisations.
Tom Worthington is the designer of the ACS Green ICT course and also the ANU ICT Sustainability course. He will discuss how ICT professionals can have a role, or even a new career, in helping their organisation meet its green requirements.
For more details see the free online edition of Tom Worthington’s book "ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future"
This talk is intended to map to SFIA Skills:
- Sustainability Assessment and Requirements Definition
- Sustainability Strategy and Management
- Sustainability Strategy (SUST)
- Sustainability management for IT (SUMI)
Tom Worthington FACS CP
Tom Worthington
- IT consultant and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University
- Researchers at the ANU Climate Change Institute
- Canberra ICT Educator of the Year 2010
- Fellow of the Australian Computer Society
- Voting Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
- IT policy adviser at the Australian Department of Defense
Tom Worthington is a computer consultant and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. Tom teaches green computing, professional ethics and electronic document management and is also a member of the ANU Climate Change Institute. He was previously a senior IT policy adviser at the Australian Department of Defense. In 2008 Tom was commissioned by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) to design the world's first globally certified online postgraduate course in Green ICT. He was recognized for this work with the award of "ICT Educator of the Year for the ACT" in 2010. Tom is a Fellow, Past President, Honorary Life Member and Certified Professional of the ACS. Tom is a voting member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Microsoft has announced that they will introduce an internal "carbon fee" on all business divisions, with the aim to be carbon neutral from 1 July 2013 ("Making Carbon Neutrality Everyone’s Responsibility at Microsoft, 8 May 2012 12:01 am). Microsoft's approach is very similar to the carbon pricing scheme which the Australian Government is introducing.
Microsoft also have:
- Smarter buildings pilot at the Microsoft Redmond campus
- CarbonSystems to monitor and report environmental metrics.
- IT Energy Whitepaper
Sustainability requires few additional skills from ICT professionals. They need to learn a little about climate science and environmental law. They need to know techniques for estimating energy use and carbon emissions. Implementing this in a business requires the same skills of Strategy, Requirements, Management and Evaluation, as other ICT tasks.
Slides for these notes are also available.
Version 2.0, 23 May 2012, Tom Worthington
Green ICT Obligations for Corporates by Tom Worthington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.