Description
The rapid growth of digital technologies has increased the importance of sustainability within the ICT sector. Green ICT refers to a set of principles and practices aimed at reducing the environmental impact of digital systems throughout their lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and end-of-life management. In parallel, technical standardization provides a common foundation for defining best practices, ensuring interoperability, and supporting measurable and comparable sustainability efforts. This awareness session aims to provide participants with a broad understanding of Green ICT concepts and the role of standards in enabling more sustainable, efficient, and responsible digital technologies.
Objectives
- Understand the main challenges and drivers of Green ICT
- Identify the environmental impacts of ICT systems across their lifecycle
- Recognize the role of technical standardization in supporting sustainability, interoperability, and best practices
- Be aware of existing standards related to Green ICT
Program
- Introduction and context
- Environmental footprint of the ICT sector
- Objectives and scope of the awareness session
- Fundamentals of Green ICT
- Definition and key principles of Green ICT
- Main challenges and drivers
- Lifecycle perspective on ICT sustainability
- Environmental impacts of ICT systems
- Manufacturing and supply chain impacts
- Energy consumption during operation (devices, networks, and data centers)
- Role of software efficiency and digital services
- End-of-life management and electronic waste
- Technical standardization: concepts and role
- What is technical standardization?
- Why standards matter in the Green ICT domain?
- Standardization activities related to Green ICT
- Overview of international and European technical committees related to Green ICT
- Existing standards supporting Green ICT
- National standardization efforts
Target audience
Developers, software architects, IT managers, digitalization managers, fintech managers, digital start-ups and scale-ups, CSR / ESG managers in digital service companies, students and researchers in sustainable computing.
Duration
2 hours