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Authors of the CCCI report which has now received national recognitio... |
National recognition for UOW’s Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative
The inaugural report of UOW’s Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative (CCCI) has received national recognition via the 2008 Alcatel Lucent Broadband Environment Challenge.
The Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative was launched at the University of Wollongong in September last year with the release of a report authored by three University of Wollongong academics -- Professor Aditya Ghose (Director, Decision Systems Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering), Associate Professor Helen Hasan (Director of the Activity Theory Usability Laboratory (ATUL), School of Economics) and Professor Trevor Spedding (Head, School of Management and Marketing).
The report argues that computing technology can fundamentally alter the climate change debate. IT-enabled smart logistics, smart energy use, smart utilities and ubiquitous optimisation can support a global online collaboration infrastructure that ensures minimisation of the global carbon footprint.
And the report’s authors say that this can be done without hurting the business bottom line.
The awards were announced recently at a ceremony in Melbourne attended by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy and the CEO of Alcatel Lucent Australia, Mr Andrew Butterworth.
The report will be published in a special issue of the Telecommunications Journal of Australia.
A National Research Summit on IT Solutions for Climate Change was held in November 2008 at the University of Wollongong as part of the CCCI initiative, which is leading the formation of a major industry-academia consortium to enable fast deployment of innovative solutions in this critical segment of the emerging “clean-tech” sector.