Smart Village Egypt, November 2010

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Egypt’s Green ICT Strategy; The Experience of an Emerging

Knowledge Economy

Egypt’s Green ICT Strategy; The Experience of an Emerging

Knowledge Economy

Egypt’s Green ICT Strategy Objectives

• Setting agreed upon transparent national policies for Green ICT.

• Linking ICT, the Environment, policy makers/ experts and stakeholders.

• Engaging the public and raising consumers’ awareness about “ICT & Environment”, threats and opportunities.

• Building capacities and cadres in the Green ICT field.

• Maximizing the diffusion of Green ICT solutions among promising sectors and using Green ICT for mitigating climate change.

Egypt’s Green ICT action plan Pillars

• Adopting a multi-stakeholder approach to address various green ICT challenges, Green ICT working group.

• Leveraging existing capabilities, working for and with the community to raise awareness and form cadres in the area of Green ICT, comprehensive campaigns.

• Life Cycle management of ICT Resources, Special focus on e-waste.

• Seeking ICT solutions for a sustainable future, The transport sector and the Smart Villages.

1- Egypt Green-ICT Strategy : A Multi-stakeholder Approach

2. Leveraging Existing Efforts and Working with the Community on Awareness Raising

• Establishing a Virtual Green ICT Community of Expertise (CoE) in Arabic.

• Organizing tailored workshops/sessions/and forums targeting Government bodies, Business community, the Public and the NGOs.

• Generating Green ICT content; Publishing Guide books, pamphlets and studies.

• Organizing summer camps.

2.1 Workshops, Sessions, and Forums on Green ICT

The 5th ITU Symposium on ICT& Climate

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2.2 “Connect Green” Day In partnership with Microsoft

• In celebration of the World Environment Day on June 7th, 2010

• The Event targeted NGOs to raise the awareness about the energy efficiency and environment friendly ICT solutions.

2.3 The Academia’s Awareness Campaign in Partnership with Oracle

• Establishing the students’ “Environment working group” in 5 Universities.

• Organizing workshops and seminars on Green ICT and e-waste management.

• Directing students to the right channels of different Green ICT partners/NGOs in order to help them accomplish their different environmental objectives.

• Annual evaluation of the 5 universities’ environmental performance.

2.4 Guide booklets “Green IT in daily life”

2.5 The One Million Acts of Greenin Partnership with Cisco

The One Million Acts of Green is a nationwide initiative that asks individuals to form a community, record their acts of green, and share their ideas to encourage others. It shows the power of people coming together and working toward meaningful goals—the power of ICT.

2.6 Developing Green ICT skills & Forming Local Cadres

• Availing e-learning training courses on Green ICT & e-waste management.

• Developing Green ICT training programs in different universities.

• Developing a Green ICT academic program in partnership with Nile University; including a Masters Degree (interdisciplinary).

2.7 E-Learning Courses in Partnership with CEDARE

3. Life Cycle Sustainable Management of ICT Resources

• Setting up Green conditions and specifications in the public procurement of ICT goods, in line with global trends.

• Compiling instruction booklets on “ ICT and ECO-Friendly usage”.

• Encouraging R&D in design and manufacturing of Green ICT products and in using Green ICT as catalyst for mitigation in other sectors.

• Creating an E-waste Sustainable Management Program.

3.1 Regional Cloud Computing Innovation Center In partnership with Microsoft

& CoE in Water Management with IBM

• Remove entry barriers for leading edge technology solutions.

• Provide the infrastructure for building and testing cloud applications

• Provide a community of experts and training for sustainable innovation.

• Facilitate cooperation with industry experts from around the world to drive innovative thinking and solutions

3.2 e-waste Sustainable Management Program

• Conducting e-Waste assessment report that covers Greater Cairo.

• Implementing a program for raising community awareness about e-Waste threats and opportunities.

• Supporting the participation of IT companies and institutions to start the implementation of pilot projects for e-Waste Management in the 6th of October city.

• Participating in proposing legislations and regulations to support the national management of e-Waste .

3.3 Awareness and Training Program in partnership with Mobinil

Raising the level of awareness and addressing different categories and age brackets through various channels:

1. e-Waste learning center for garbage collectors’ community 2. Educational articles and school activities.

3.4 Alexandria’s Schools Battery Collection Projectin Partnership with Mobinil

School awareness sessionSchool awareness session Trading batteries for tree shrubs

Trading batteries for tree shrubs

El Nasseria hazardous waste dump

El Nasseria hazardous waste dump

• Project Objectives- Raise awareness on hazardous waste and safe dumping

methods.- Establish collaboration between community, government and

businesses.• Statistics

- Number of participating schools: 63 in 5 city districts.- Collected 1800 KG of dry cells and mobile batteries.

• Project Objectives- Raise awareness on hazardous waste and safe dumping

methods.- Establish collaboration between community, government and

businesses.• Statistics

- Number of participating schools: 63 in 5 city districts.- Collected 1800 KG of dry cells and mobile batteries.

3.5 Sustained Consumption in Partnership with Mobinil

Egyptian e-waste companyEgyptian e-waste company

3.6 REVIVE Program in Partnership with Microsoft

3.7 E-Market for E-waste in partnership with CEDARE - UNEP

4. ICT solutions For a Sustainable Future Program

• Adopting Environment-friendly & smart energy efficient ICT solutions, starting with the transport sector.

• Applying Green Architecture foundations and requirement in the Maadi technological Area.

• Turning the MCIT premises to be LEED Certified.• Establishing pilot projects for Green and smart ICT

applications in the Smart Villages.• Supporting the Ministry of State for Environment

Affairs (MSEA) in establishing a Climate Change database Center.

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Challenges

• Setting up and validating indicators, collecting data for measuring, reporting and verification of results to positively mitigate climate change.

• Boosting R&D in Green ICT; especially at the production level and encouraging Green ICT entrepreneurs.

• Training Green ICT professionals to be catalysts for other sectors.• Inducing sectors’ demand for professionals in promising Green

ICT/smart applications. • Creating Green ICT solutions that are cost effective.• Identifying eligible ICT projects for Clean Development

Mechanism (CDM). • Expanding existing efforts in Green ICT.

• Setting up and validating indicators, collecting data for measuring, reporting and verification of results to positively mitigate climate change.

• Boosting R&D in Green ICT; especially at the production level and encouraging Green ICT entrepreneurs.

• Training Green ICT professionals to be catalysts for other sectors.• Inducing sectors’ demand for professionals in promising Green

ICT/smart applications. • Creating Green ICT solutions that are cost effective.• Identifying eligible ICT projects for Clean Development

Mechanism (CDM). • Expanding existing efforts in Green ICT.