VideoCom project hosts online "Advancing the green agenda via videoconferencing"
Advancing the green agenda via videoconferencing
A public multi-site videoconference meeting
When :
Thursday, July 12th
11am Central, Noon EST, & 1pm Atlantic
About
Many First Nations across Canada have the capacity to use videoconferencingfor meetings. The effective use of videoconferencing to create “green meetings”can save time and money, and lead to a healthier environment. These real costs are then available for use and investment in your own community.
This meeting is open to anyone interested in using videoconferencing for green meetings. We will discuss how we can promote and support videoconference meetings in First Nation communities and what will be necessary to support more green meetings.
For more information about this event
Contact Lyle Johnson at 1-877-737-KNET (5638) ext 1387.
Online Resource to Learn More About Videoconferencing and the Green Agenda
David Suzuki Foundation. (2006). Go Carbon Neutral.
An explanation of how you can live without adding carbon to the atmosphere. Videoconferencing is a way to decrease an organizations or your own carbon emissions.
Young, S. (2006) Climate change and ICT. OVUM Report.
The article states that "if 20% of business travel in the EU 25 was replaced by video conferencing, this would save 22.3 million tonnes of CO2."
Reay, D. S. (2003). "Virtual solution to carbon cost of conferences." Nature 424(6946): 251.
This article talks about using a technology called ACCESSGRID that is used to hold video conferences among various people in different places. The technology is similiar to the technology used in our multi-site video conference. The article describes how video conferencing cuts down on air travel and therefore a meeting's environmental footprint.
Videoconferencing saves money, time and carbon.
The Carbon Planet blog describes how they used videoconferencing to cut down on their emissions. They estimated that they saved 3 tonnes of CO2 by conducting a meeting using videoconferencing rather than traveling.
The VideoCom research project started in September 2006. We are investigating video communications on broadband networks in First Nations communities. For more information about this meeting and the VideoCom project visit http://videocom.knet.ca