ICT

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ICT Environment Activitiesin Korea
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14

• Byoung Moon Chin
• Vice President, TTA

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Climate Changes in Korea

• Slowly changing temperature climate to
  subtropical climate
• Southern sea temperature of Korea has been risen
  by 2C over the last 30 years
• In 2100, temperature is expected to rise by 4C
  and rainfall by 20.
• Korea was ranked 10th among the largest CO2
  emissions countries
• Korea will implement the Kyoto Protocol
  compulsorily during the second commitment period
  (20132017)

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Highlight of Current Activities(1/8)

• Green Growth Commission in Korea Government has
  announced National Strategy for Green ICT in
  May 2009
• Objectives of the Strategy
• Selection of Green ICT technology as New Growth
  Engine
• Global Green ICT Market 0.5bn(08) ?
  4.8bn(13)
• Accelerating transition into Low Carbon Society
  converged with ICT services
• Strengthening counter capacity for Climate Change
  based on ICT technology.

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Highlight of Current Activities(2/8)

• Green ICT Strategic Technology Areas
• Green ICT Basic technologies
• - Implementation of infrastructure for Green ICT
  industry and environment
• Green of ICT
• - Development of low carbon technology to improve
  energy efficiency for the ICT products
• Green by ICT
• - Energy saving and GHG reduction in IT-converged
  area by utilization of ICT technology

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Highlight of Current Activities(3/8)

• Green ICT Basic technologies
• Climate change monitoring and data
  quantification
• Energy monitoring and data interface
• GHG emission monitoring
• Measurement index on energy consumption of
  broadcasting and communication devices
• Observation system methodology to secure
  reliable observation results.

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Highlight of Current Activities(4/8)

• Green of ICT
• CO2 emission from ICT is 2 of total global
  emission volume
• Development of green ICT products
• - Low power high performance PC, monitor, server
• 20 reduction of energy consumption by 2020
• Implementation of ICT environment with high
  performance, low power and low cost
• - Virtualizing, Cloud computing, SaaS, etc.
• - Low carbon network devices, Green-IDC, etc.
• 40 enhancement of electric power efficiency by
  2013

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Highlight of Current Activities(5/8)

• Green by ICT (1/2)
• Estimated that 725 of the global CO2 emission
  volume can be reduced by ICT
• Energy monitoring at home and building
• 13 reduction of energy consumption by 2013
• Implementation of remote electronic work
  environment
• 3.15M tons reduction of CO2 emission by 2013
• ICT based green production management
• 8 enhancement of energy efficiency and 6.85M
  tons reduction of Carbon emission by 2013

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Highlight of Current Activities(6/8)

• Green by ICT (2/2)
• Implementation of smart ITS logistics system
• 280M tons reduction of CO2 by 2013
• Implementation of intelligent system for
  environment monitoring and disaster management
• 3,500 tons reduction of CO2 emission
• per year by 2013

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Highlight of Current Activities(7/8)

• Green ICT Standardization Roadmap

2011
2013
2018
2009
Terms, Measurement Index
Basic Technologies
Green ICT Guideline
Green Computing
Green of ICT
LED VLC(Visible Light Communication)
Energy Efficient Network
Green Home
Green by ICT
Environment Monitoring
Smart Grid
Integrated Transportation Platform
Remote Work (Smart Work Center)
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Highlight of Current Activities(8/8)

• TTA has launched Green ICT standard activities
  in order to implement the strategy
• TTA ICT CC Standard Advisory Group
• Developing TTA standards (Checklist for energy
  saving, Terminology and Correlation conception of
  ICT and environment)
• ICT/Environment Standardization Forum
• Developing de facto standards
• Analyzing and studying Green ICT technology
• Korea ITU committee has set ICT Climate
  Change Sub-Committee in December 2008

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Challenge

• Green ICT industry is regarded as Growth Engine
  for Korean Economy

• SoC Management
• Plant Management
• Building Management

• Disaster Management
• Climate Monitoring
• Ecology/Ocean/Soil Monitoring

National / Public Communication Network

• Transportation Management
• Streetlight Remote Control
• Logistics Management

• Air Pollution Monitoring
• Waste Water/Gas Monitoring
• Recycling Management

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Next Step

• TTA will continue to develop methodology to
  describe and estimate the present and future CO2
  emissions of ICTs
• Study on terms, definitions and impacts on ICTs
  and CC
• Developing checklists for eco-friendly ICTs
• ITU Climate Change Symposium
• Seoul, Korea / 23 September 2009
• Hosted by KCC, organized by ITU and KCC
• Presentation using video-conference tool
• Participation via internet Environment-friendly
  conference