JISC future grant funding

Future calls by JISC in Greening ICT will cover capacity building, rapid innovation and exemplars for sustainable campuses. See the link for Roadmap of future grant funding.

Green IT news

A couple of articles which I found recently and may be of interest to anyone perusing this blog (not many!):

Greg Taylor has started a blog on server virtualisation http://bit.ly/bpEkDJ at the Chartered Institute for IT (formerly the British Computer Society).

Destinations Green IT at http://www.destinationgreenit.com/ contains news on green IT issues with sections for the public sector, servers, printers etc. along with vendor and manufacturer content. The pages aren't updated very frequently so it may be worthwhile subscribing to the RSS feed.

JISC Innovation Forum 2010

Just back from a stimulating couple of days at the JISC Innovation Forum in peaceful Royal Holloway. Talks, discussion papers and other resources can be downloaded from the Virtual Goodybag. One thing I will be following up are Accessibility tools and guidelines from JISC TechDisc.

First project meeting

Held our first project meeting on 13 July which included short presentations from JISC, BT and Canon (UK) Ltd. and an overview of the SusteIT carbon footprinting tool which we will be using. The Powerpoint slides and toolkit can be downloaded from our Green ICT webpage.

New Carbon Trust guide

The Carbon Trust have launched a new guide on carbon footprinting for businesses. See Carbon Trust press release for 15 June 2010.

My first blog!

dipping a hesitant toe into the social media pool....

I've set this blog up to get to know what other people are doing in "green" ICT and share ideas, as we are just starting a project on green ICT in London's universities and higher education colleges.

I'll update this blog next week but check out www.londonhigher.ac.uk for more information on the types of projects and activities we are doing.