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3rd International Forum TIC21 - October 30 and 31, 2007, Valenciennes, France
In 2008, the commissioner will propose a series of measures to increase the use of ICT in the fight against climate change and energy wastage.
Living Labs were designed at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), with the idea to testing future innovations in the process of conception of the public.
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.
EICTA, whose philosophy, as its signature indicates, is « creating a digital Europe » stands for: European Industry Association for Information Systems, Communication Technologies and Consumer Electronics.
The CBI (the confederation of British industry), the equivalent of the MEDEF in France has involved itself in combating climate change by establishing a working group (bringing together 18 big businesses that represent 2 million workers) to work on creating a response to the urgency of this phenomenon and to raise consciousness about this national priority amongst all businesses, consumers and the government.
Google, Intel, Dell, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Sun, AMD, Yahoo and many others, have all subscribed to the WWF’s programme “Climate Savers Computing”that aims to reduce the electricity consumption of both computers and servers.
Together with the European Commission, ACIDD is setting up a new project which aims to get economical leaders and local authorities together to work on developing urban projects, promoting ICT, encouraging energy efficiency, sharing practices and experiences and creating a working group to reflect on these approaches.
This event, organised by ACIDD, aims to find the best initiatives from the leaders in information technology and communication and local authorities that specialise in tackling climate change.
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