If, like me, you have the joy of staring into the eyes of quizzical innocence, how can we not respond to the challenge from John Doerr? So can you help me? How can I help government IT go even greener?
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Use IT to allow flexible working from the nearest government office, council office or home.
Allowing me to hook up to a wireless net or plug in at the office above the local job centre, or local council office, would reduce how often I need to travel into London to the main office. Think a network of offices like the Regus or MWB business centres. Would also help collaboration as you’d mix with people from other departments. However, given the depts with the widest geographic reach are DWP and HMRC and their real estate is probably sold off and managed by someone else it might be tricky to make happen
Could also be great to work more from home, where appropriate, again reduces commuter impact.
Give desktop webinar facilities to all, e.g. Webex. again cuts on travel. Ban emailing of big files (tempting to print) encourage more shared areas
Gartner have been banging the gong on green IT for a while now so probably have 10 off-the-shelf practices for deployment straightaway.
Bizarre to see the rape of the Brazilian rainforest being held up as an exemplar of how to tackle climate change.
On your claim about Government IT, I would hazard a guess that “going greener” is a completely undefined term, and can be used to justify almost any outcome.
And the peculiar thing about my approach is that you might be able to have a role in finding the definition and fashioning the outcomes. Seize the moment lobster.
I’ll tell you when we teleconf 18:15 April 30th
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