ICT 2008 :: Networking sessions
TIC21: Sharing initiatives from business leaders and local authorities for a green and connected city
Roseraie 2, 26/11/2008 (14:00-15:30)
Harnessing the potential of ICT for more environmentally friendly cities and urban transport
ICT initiatives focusing on making cities more environmentally friendly will come together to present their work. The session will focus on green options, such as teleworking, public transportation, municipal CO2 plans, smart communities, and green buildings for a low carbon economy. The objectives of the session are to share climate change initiatives for greener and better connected cities; to promote ICT for energy efficiency, particularly for transportation and buildings; and to put the spotlight on initiatives from IT business leaders and local authorities. Raising awareness among researchers, the press, business leaders, local authorities, European institutions and NGOs will be an important goal of the session.
Web site: http://www.acidd.com
Coordinator: Sylvie VERNET (ACIDD, Association Communication, Information for sustainable development, France)
Links and Documents
- Presentation (301 KB)
- Presentation Mr Kaplan (468 KB)
- http://www.acidd.com
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very interesting topic
A very interesting topic - would be good to access national and regional level developments throughout Europe to minimse adoption risks and uptake failures.
It is nice to see that the initiators of the session relate the adoption of telework with the municipal CO2 plan: usually decision- and policy-makers tend to separate concerns and problems thus helping their multiplicative growth.
I fully agree to the Mr Koumpis
very interesting topic. will attend
Interesting and necessary. We will definitely attend and have many ideas and insights to share. This should definitely become an essential area for R&D and innovation, crossing the borders between ICTs, local development and policy, economic development and sustainability.
It's a very necessary approach, specially sharing experiences between cities around the world, and giving a dynamic of actions for many actors not included yet in this challenge. Let's transform this idea in an real action plan in Lyon !
it's very important topic. we need to play more attention on these areas for the future of human.
"Cognitive Radio Networks for Green Communications and Green Spectrum" -
Nowadays, the whole world of telecommunications and information communities is facing a more and more serious challenge, namely on one side the transmitted multimedia-rich data are exploding at an astonishing speed and on the other side the total energy consumption by the communication and networking devices and the relevant global CO2 emission are terribly increasing.
Gratifyingly, the emerging Cognitive Radio (CR) system and network are potentially capable of contributing to solve the abovementioned problem for realizing "Green Communications". Basically, Cognitive Radio is characterized of an adaptive, multi-dimensionally environment-aware, autonomous radio system empowered by advanced intelligent functionality, which interacts with its operating environment and learns from its experiences to reason, plan, and decide future actions to meet various needs. This approach can lead to a significant increase in radio resource (spectrum) efficiency, networking efficiency as well as energy efficiency. Within this framework, a number of CR-enabled approaches and key techniques will be taken into account in detail, including energy-efficient network architecture & protocols, energy-efficient CR transmission techniques (e.g., adaptive transmission power & reduced radiation), cross-layer optimization methods, and opportunistic spectrum sharing without causing harmful interference pollution (i.e. Green Spectrum).
Highly interesting topic. Interested mainly in what ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) can do in favour of a greener environment: improve energy efficiency and reduce gas emissions of transport.
As a leading industrial group in the field of technology and mobility we are very interested in this topic. In particular we are interested in research on intelligent transport systems in the context of wholistic, ecofriendly, sustainable mobility and socioeconomic development in cities.
Very interesting and would like to attend this session. Euro-India Research Centre (EIRC) being the key entity of the Indian National Contact Point (NCP) looks at concrete, practical areas for collaboration. So I would like to invite the like minded to participate in our networking session called ‘Euro-India ICT Cooperation Gateway’ (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=823) for fostering this opportunity. You can also visit us at www.euroindiaresearch.org or mail me at karthik@euroindiaresearch.org / karthik@itsmaindia.org
A very interesting sessiion. Our research group is actively involved in the area.
The role of telecommuting on carbon reduction and energy security is critical: Common Current just published a report ranking the largest 50 US cities preparedness for a post-oil era, and telecommuting was one major category of analysis: http://www.commoncurrent.com/publications.shtml
The EU should determine telecommuting rates, policies and transport carbon offset potential for its cities (taking into account carbon produced by information technology use).