Measuring and reporting Green Growth

Read here this OECD report to find out about the private sector initiatives on measuring and reporting Green Growth which provides tools to support countries in this significant task.

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

Today is the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day which marks the establishment of the International Telecommunication Union in 1865. The theme for 2013 is “ICTs and improving road safety” since based on the UN report 1.3 million people lose their lives annually in traffic related accidents and another 20-50 million are injured mainly in developing countries. Aside the social cost, this implies a high economic cost too. ICTs are anticipated to contribute in improving this situation, so there is high interest from the industry, researchers and policy makers. This is an issue which will be discussed in our next workshop, but you may engage in the discussion now !

Workshop #1 output

Following the first workshop of this RSA Research Network, you can find here the title slides of the presentations. If you are interested in any of the topics you may contact us or the presenters directly. Hopefully this introduction will generate more discussions and bring up new topics for the next workshop.

Link

Click here to visit the Symposium webpage and register

GPS, Wi-Fi, GPS and other new technologies offer new opportunities which  have not been yet fully researched. This symposium, which will take place on 17th May 2013 in Manhattan, will explore further these issues. The goal of this symposium is to bring people together to discuss the use of GPS and other new geospatial technologies for transportation planning and policies.  Ideas developed from this symposium will serve to facilitate future collaboration among universities, government agencies, non-for-profit organizations, and private industries.

There is a small travel fund support available and interested parties should register by 30th April 2013.

Moving the climate agenda forward through green ICTs

The 8th ITU Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change will take place in Turin, Italy on 6th-7th May 2013, hosted by Telecom Italia. Find out about registration and other practical information here.

The main purpose of the Symposium is to move forward the agenda on using ICTs to monitor climate change, mitigate and adapt to its effects and, in this light, identify future requirements for ITU’s related work – including standardization of ICT equipment and networks as well as development activities.

The Symposium in Turin will be dedicated to the theme of Smart Sustainable Cities and it will focus on the issue of ICTs, the environment and climate change in the world and the needs for smart green ICT technologies. Topics to be discussed will include, inter alia, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, e-waste, disaster preparedness, cost-effective ICT technologies, methodologies for the environmental impact assessment of ICTs, ICT technologies for smart cities and smart societies, challenges and opportunities in the transition to a green and resource efficient economy.

The Symposium will bring together leading specialists in the field, from top policy-makers to engineers, designers, planners, government officials, regulators, standards experts and others.