CISCO Summit Day 1 - Yvon Le Roux
December 09, 2007 by Chris | permalink
Yvon Le Roux, VP Public Sector, CISCO. INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY is the title of his talk. he opened with the results of the public services survey. the overwhelming view was the need to innovate. he brought up the definition of insanity...doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get a different result. Credit Suisse predicted that China's electric needs will continue to rise at 11%. this has made China the largest absolute producer of greenhouse gasses. the fact that Al Gore and the IPCC won the Nobel Peace Prize means that the world picture has changed. Energy and Climate change are now part of every business leaders developing vocabulary. thus there are a few issues to better understand:
1. Understanding the Direct REsult of Electricity Consumption of IT and itc CO2 impact
2. Impact of Applications that can lower the CO2 of our infrastructure
3. Long-term socio-economic changes based on new models
'we have seen the iceberg; ours is melting' this he used as his as his rallying call for the summit. we need technologies which will allow the developing nations to develop without the continued radical climb in CO2.
he quoted OULU, in Finland as being one of the best examples of integration of technology into their economy. incredibly innovative.......[[[[must go there!]]]]]
