Goal
To reduce total carbon emissions through the better use of ICT for University processes. Targeted investment in ICT can be used to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the University.
Approach
Based on best practice the following kinds of initiatives are proposed:
- Reducing travel requirements by providing ICT based opportunities for communication and collaboration, eg:
- Telephony
- Instant messaging
- Video conferencing
- Shared workspaces
- Replacing paper based processes with ICT based equivalents
- Eco-efficiency (for example, remote printing: printing prospectuses in Malaysia rather than printing here and shipping them to Malaysia)
- Use ICT to report on environmental efficiencies across the university:
- A dashboard showing number of machines turned on versus number of machines in use
- How power consumption looks month by month (taking advantage of the electricity metering project undertaken by Estates)