GeSI : ICT’s right hand when it comes to tackling climate change
In 2000, 189 countries signed the millennium’s objectives. These objectives are mainly concerned with tackling climate change and global poverty. The ICT sector deals with technological solutions that are pre-disposed towards these millennium objectives.
One outcome of this global treaty was the creation of the GeSI (Global e-Sustainability Initiatives) in 2001 who, in collaboration with the United Nations’ environmental programme (UNEP) and the Telecommunications Union (ITU) supports ICT’s energy conserving projects.
ICT is considered as an essential tool in the battle against climate change, to accelerate economic development and to improve quality of life. GeSi considers that it is crucial to extend ICT to all countries, rich and poor, to apply the approaches of sustainable development throughout the world.
GeSI plays a part in many different projects:
- Creating a forum to promote the products, services and tools in the ICT that favour sustainable development.
- Facilitating international cooperation with governing bodies in this sector
- Encouraging the exchange of good practices
- Encouraging business in developing countries to partake in the knowledge made available by GeSi and to make it their own.
- Promoting regional initiatives and linking them to international ones
- Playing a part in raising awareness, encouraging transparency and the assumption of responsibility
- Proposing online tools that encourage and facilitate sustainable development in the ICT sector. This bank of practical information is a free and open source.
The members of GeSI are :
Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Canada, British Telecommunications, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom AG, Ericsson, European Telecommunication Network Operators Association (ETNO), www.francetelecom.com/fr/groupe-Orange, Fujitsu Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, KPN, Motorola, Microsoft, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, Sun Microsystems, Telef—nica O2 Europe, USTelecom Association, Verizon, Vodafone
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