Sustainability Lead at Techbuyer & Head of Sustainability at Interact
Open Hardware
Tuesday February 7th, 4:00pm-4:25pm GMT
Burton/Redgrave, 2nd Floor
Open Hardware
Tuesday February 7th, 5:00pm-5:30pm GMT
Burton/Redgrave, 2nd Floor
Circular Economy is the great hope for decoupling economic development from environmental harm
Best model within this is product life extension because of where we are with recycling technologies and also use of recovered materials in ICT production
Why the current OEM distribution model is not able to handle this effectively
Why the market needs to be open to service providers (refurbishment, maintenance, repair) so that equipment is cascaded between users and component level upgrades possible at a local level
It enables new systems to be built from exisiting components
Open exchange of knowledge on hardware refurbishment and software support is essential on this
Open exhange of energy efficiency vital as well
Level playing field for comparison of performance between generations and makes and models essential for good decision making
OCP hardware needs to be compared to OEM equipment as part of this, which means expanding the concepts of SPEC to OCP servers
It enables balance of scope3, scope 2 and material efficiency
It requires cooperation, collaboration and a different approach to business
Not to say that it can’t be profitable (economic benefits in terms of job creation and business growth)
Governments are alert to this (circular economy action plans, sustainability reporting) but will need help from the market collating it all together
This is an opportunity for this community to step up and do something useful based on the unique ethics of open
Description coming soon…
Astrid is the Sustainability Lead at Techbuyer and Head of Sustainability at Interact. She chairs the Sustainability Special Interest Group at the Data Centre Alliance and is a board member of Free ICT Europe, a non-profit organisation that supports competitve practice by working with EU legislators. She has also co-written a number of academic papers on circular economy and energy efficiency for servers and represents Techbuyer as full partner in the CEDaCI project.
