Environment and ICTs

Adaptation and Livelihood Resilience
Adaptation and Livelihood Resilience 04 August 2010

This project is a collaborative effort on the part of six institutions in three countries (India, Nepal and the United States) under the leadership of the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition – Nepal (ISET – Nepal). Researchers and communities will develop intervention strategies based on income diversification, environmental management and multi-purpose communication systems.

Action Plan for Green IT in Denmark
Action Plan for Green IT in Denmark 04 August 2010

Green IT is research in and use of IT in an efficient and environmentally correct manner. Green IT can contribute to reducing energy consumption, both by reducing power consumption as well as promoting innovative IT solutions capable of reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in other sectors. This Action Plan presents eight concrete initiatives for the private and public sectors, which will help Denmark actively promote Green IT nationally and internationally.

OneClimate.net
OneClimate.net 04 August 2010

OneClimate is an action hub on climate change. It uses innovative spaces and tools to enable users to share experiences, knowledge, insights, questions and answers about climate change. OneClimate.net organized Live Stream from Copenhagen Climate Change Talks into Second Life to enable Global participation in COP 15 without travel carbon. The website lists community projects in a Good practice ...

HEDON Household Energy Network
HEDON Household Energy Network 04 August 2010

HEDON uses ICT in the pursuit of more and better climate mitigation and adaptation. HEDON focuses on household energy, which is predominantly cooking, so it deals with issues related to food security as well. HEDON runs a Special Interest Group (SIG) / community of practice on Cooking and Carbon to discuss all things to do with climate change and household energy, with a focus on three main top...

Ecosia: Green Search Engine
Ecosia: Green Search Engine 04 August 2010

Ecosia is an eco-friendly Internet search engine backed by Yahoo, Bing and the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). At least 80% of its advertising revenue go to a rainforest protection program run by the WWF. Ecosia servers run on green electricity.Ecosia: Green Search Engine: Ecosia: Green Search Engine

Notes on ICTs, Climate Change and Development
Notes on ICTs, Climate Change and Development 04 August 2010

NICCD is a set of online resources on ICTs, climate change and development associated with the “Climate Change, Innovation and ICTs” research project funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre and managed by Richard Heeks and Angelica Ospina at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Development Informatics.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) of Green Belt Movement Kenya
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) of Green Belt Movement Kenya 04 August 2010

GBM Kenya is a non-profit grassroots NGO based in Kenya. Since 2007 GBM has integrated digital mapping and GIS into its monitoring and evaluations procedures. GBM’s GIS Lab in Kenya provides the capability to create/collect, edit, query, analyze and display geographic information in order to facilitate better tracking of GBM’s programs.

Texas Campaign for the Environment
Texas Campaign for the Environment 04 August 2010

A non-profit organization campaigning for Texans to tackle e-waste and other issues. TCE is related to the TCE Fund, which also focuses on e-waste, providing detailed information, research and suggestions for individual action.

Strengthening the Resilience in Tsunami-affected communities of India and Sri Lanka
Strengthening the Resilience in Tsunami-affected communities of India and Sri Lanka 04 August 2010

This project links ecological rehabilitation, livelihood development, and access to information. It builds on the complementary experience of the three proponent organizations in India and Sri Lanka to develop effective ways to incorporate scientific and institutional innovations into livelihood reconstruction efforts in order to reduce the vulnerability of the poor to natural disasters in coas...

Research into sustainable planning and operation methods for greener networks
Research into sustainable planning and operation methods for greener networks 04 August 2010

Profiling Internet equipment from different vendors in terms of consumption, efficiency and other factors and we are using that data to tackle different operational and planning problems. The research group investigates the relationship between network robustness and consumption.

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