Green Web
Green Web or Green ICT relates to: Informatics as an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and managing climate change (complex, global and socially interactive systems). Reducing the carbon footprint of the ICT industry itself (about 3% of global emissions, but growing rapidly). Reducing the carbon footprint of ICT’s used by consumers and organisations (public/private/third). ICT as enabling technology for “dematerialisation” and “artificial intelligence*” of: Land Use, Waste and Water, Renewable Energy, Built Environment & Sustainable Transport, Carbon Accounting & Finance, Organisation and Operations Management (e.g. eBusiness/eGov). Artificial Intelligence (i.e. what we mean by “smart” grid / cities / buildings / logistics.
Current Activity
ECCI Partners up with ScotlandIS
ECCI recebtly partnered with Scotland IS to presnet...Intelligent Data for a Low Carbon Economy at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen in September.
The event brought together experts, industry representatives and academics to debate and explore the opportunities of IT solutions providing solutions to the data challenges created by the low carbon economy. To meet these targets Scottish companies must become much more effective and efficient at collecting, analysing and acting upon the deluge of data that is engulfing their operations.
Speakers included David MacLeman, Distribution R&D Manager, SSE; David Maclean, Head of Predictive Analytics Practice, Logica UK; John McCall, Professor of Computing Science, RGU & David Socha, Utilities Practice Leader, EMEA, Teradata.
Climate KIC start up tour USA
Thanks to an introduction by ECCI’s Andrew Mitchell, UWI labels and Pure VLC have been selected to take part in the Climate-KIC Incubation Programme and USA Start Up Tour, which supports entrepreneurs to develop their clean tech ventures.
The tour started on September 5th with an entrepreneurship tour of the Silicon Valley ecosystem and meetings with potential investors, business partners and customers, followed by a series of events and meetings in the US bureaucratic capital Washington DC and ending in Boston with MIT and Harvard Business School’s clean tech
SME EnviroApp
Green Oak and Glasgow Caledonian Uni have won the prestigious SME Enviro App competition. The competition called upon entrants to create an exciting and innovative software application which has the power to enable Scotland’s SMEs to respond to carbon reduction goals.
The final took place on Friday at Microsoft`s Waverly Gate offices in Edniburgh in front of a distinguished panel of judges headed by Ian Marchant CEO of Scottish and Southern Energy and including David Sigsworth, Chairman of SEPA; John Mason, Director of Business at the Scottish Government and Lars Lindstedt Principal Software Economist at Microsoft.
CEO Robert McKechnie said: "I`m delighted to report that the Green Oak/GCU entry was chosen ahead of stiff competition from a group of great ideas from the other four finalists - Edinburgh Festivals, 1 Part Carbon, Envirodigital and Linknode. The prize includes £50K funded by SEPA, SSE and the Scottish Government to be used to develop the product as well as support from all of the 2020 participants in order to ensure that the product has maximum impact upon the SME carbon agenda. We are also delighted to be travelling to Redmond, Washington to meet with the Microsoft Global Apps and Environmental teams."