Government IT Conference Updated

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Ambassador G WALLACE HOPEAdvisor to UAE Government on Green and

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Founding Director - Queen of Green FZE



IT for Government 20114th and 5th October

Dubai, UAE

• Green Leadership for the Middle East• Waste in the Middle East• What is Green IT? An overview• Understand the definition of 'Green IT'• Understand the overall need for an organization to adopt

a Green IT Strategy• Understand the main goals and objectives of Green IT• Cost benefits• Operational Green IT• Reputation and Culture

• Roles and Responsibilities• Monitoring and measurement• New apps empower preventative Green IT• E-gov and M-apps = Empowerment



Green Leadership for MiddleEast



Real waste in MENA

MENA

• 100 million unemployed youth – waste of investment in education, skills and talent

UAE• No 1 Water Security – 1600% more

consumption

• No 2 Food Security – 3 weeks supply• No 3 Energy Security – self consumption of

30% when this can earn export dollars



Carbon Emissions for MENA



Carbon Emissions by MENAresidents



Water Usage



What is Green IT? Anoverview

An IT Company or Dept operated with wastereduction, conservation, environment and

sustainability BUILT

into the everyday design, practices and processes

to joyfully balance

nature, technology, business and economy.



Understand the definition of 'Green IT'

• Critical conservation, waste management,energy conservation, environment,sustainability and profitability of a company

or Dept.• Clients and customers care and ask about

your Green policies and if you put theminto practice. Too many pretty brochuresand not enough action.

• Invisible costs and inefficiencies create themost waste and consume the most costs.

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Understand the overall needfor an organization to adopt a

Green IT Strategy

• Conserve natural resources - water, energy, treesetc

• Reduce waste - water, lighting, heating, air con,

costs• Prevent pollution - CO2, emissions, chemicals

• Recycle - effective recycling of water, materials andwaste

• Improve - environment, O2, beauty, bottom line



Cost benefits

Cost benefits can be obtained by:• Converting the building from an

energy consumer to

an energy generator

• Devising a Step by Step plan that

employees own and have fun implementing

• Mass collaboration on each step

• Publish real-time results of behaviour change

• Share the cost saving benefits e.g. savings from lightbulbs re-invested in fresh juices available foremployees that improve their Vitamin and Mineralintake



Cumulative effects of asystems approach



Recycling your Computers

The importance of Recycling your Computers:Computers and other electronic items make uparound 2% of all of the materials in today's landfills.We know that recycling monitors and computers is

important, as the landfills are not getting anysmaller. These items contain lead and toxic metalsthat can cause serious damage to the environment,particularly if they end up in the water supply.

Development of the information and communicationtechnologies (ICT) in the Arab region

reduces demand on transport and thus reducing

GHG emissions.



Reputation and Culture

Embracing a social media programto share each step withemployees,clients, customers, contractors andsuppliers has a ripple effect and

unleashes green creativity that can beapplied to the whole Global SupplyChain.

A Green IT culture stimulates theheart chakra and provides a happier,

healthierworkplace, internal and external relationships. When

you put the environment and human assets at thecenter of your Green IT policy flow improves, solutions



Roles and Responsibilities

Board of Directors setting the policy andpracticing it themselves.

Management actively encouraging employeecollaboration.

Employees focused on what they can

improveStakeholders invited to share improvementsand their experiences.



Monitoring and measurement

Monitoring existing bills, conservation andreduction in real time.

Measurement of ‘before’ and ‘after’

displayed in charts and images.

Knowledge transferred and shared withstakeholders and the world to demonstratewhat is possible.



,unemployed women in KSAwith green IT

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E-Gov and M-apps =Empowerment

HRH King Al Saud wanted a program to empower 200,000

unemployed women as part of the Social Fund for KSA

Queen of Green developed ‘business in a box’ – a micro-enterprise selected from their phone, delivered to their

home with m-video, m-payments and m-banking to provide

a real-time, paperless system with zero environmental

impact

Scale and speed – all women can access the knowledge

transfer, systems, payments and support from their mobile

phone.



Queen of Green FZE

SAIF, Sharjah, UAE

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +971 552 396818

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