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the Capital Region of Denmark aims to halve Co2 emissions from its computer centres by 2012. the way forward is via green it, intelligent solutions and new equipment.
doctor hurries from the operating theatre, quickly pulls his access card from the clip at the side of his belt and inserts it into a little box to the right of a computer screen. It takes the doctor just three seconds to retrieve the data and see it on the screen. These small boxes, so-called 'thin clients', are replacing fifty PCs in Bispebjerg Hospital. Thin clients save the hospital both electricity, money and crucial seconds of time. neW behaviouR "With a traditional PC, it takes about 9-15 seconds to log on to the system," says Nis Nissen, technical project manager at Bispebjerg Hospital. "But with a thin client, you are on in just one click and for a surgeon performing an operation, those can be vital seconds to save." The Capital Region of Denmark aims to halve CO2 emissions from its computer centres by 2012. This will be done through 'green IT', which focuses on regulating electricity usage and replacing old, power-guzzling PCs with new, low-energy types. Bispebjerg Hospital first introduced thin clients in a pilot project in 2004. The experiment to replace a number of PCs was a success, and so the project was extended to 50 workstations with 245 users. "By next summer, we hope to have reached the point where 40,000 staff members in the region will be logging on using thin clients," says Jan Kold, head of IT in the Capital Region of Denmark. It was precisely the Capital Region of Denmark's many green initiatives which made its IT division, Koncern IT, one of the three finalists, along with DONG Energy and COWI, for the Green IT prize in 2009, which is awarded by the DaIT industry and the Ministry of
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Science, Technology and Innovation for the most convincing example of sustainable IT use. Green IT is first and foremost about getting the region to use IT in the most eco-friendly way possible in other words, reducing power consumption and the environmental load directly associated with the operation of public sector IT systems, servers, PCs, printers and other equipment. But green IT is also about the potential of the new technology to encourage citizens, companies and staff to behave in a more eco-friendly manner. it pays to be gReen "In the past, there has been too little focus on improving the efficiency of electricity consumption in the region. The public sector makes a considerable contribution to CO2 emissions, and like everyone else in the world, we have a responsibility towards the climate changes that we face today," says Jan Kold. But as well as representing sustainable ideals, eco-friendly solutions are also often economically worthwhile. In particular, a great deal of money could be saved by halving the power consumption of the region's computer centres, which today use as much electricity as 600 homes. "Our job is after all to look after tax-payers' money, so we cannot base our choices solely on considerations of the climate. But we do everything we can to look at our investments from a climate perspective," Jan Kold concludes.
Green IT in the public sector
· green it represents energy-efficient and eco-friendly use of and research into it. · green it is about getting the public sector to use it in the most eco-friendly way possible, reducing the power consumption and environmental load directly associated with the operation of it systems, servers, PCs, printers and other equipment. · the government has decided that by 2011, overall energy consumption in the public sector must be ten percent less than in 2006. · Public sector institutions have already cut had their energy budgets cut by five percent in 2009, and by ten percent for 2010.
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