Comments on: 4.9. The Greening Government ICT Strategy http://www.makeitbetter.org.uk/?p=77 Help us improve the Government's tech strategy Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:35:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Gerry Gavigan http://www.makeitbetter.org.uk/?p=77&cpage=1#comment-375 Gerry Gavigan Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:55:15 +0000 http://www.makeitbetter.org.uk.conservatives.webhoster.co.uk/?p=77#comment-375 Get away from central procurement and over elaboration of the specification, allow localism (with true interoperability) enforce proper overall budget management (total cost envelope, not streams based on ICT, electricity, whatever) pretty much what "Next Steps" and Agencies set out to do before it was subverted. Get away from central procurement and over elaboration of the specification, allow localism (with true interoperability) enforce proper overall budget management (total cost envelope, not streams based on ICT, electricity, whatever) pretty much what “Next Steps” and Agencies set out to do before it was subverted.

]]> By: Etienne Pollard http://www.makeitbetter.org.uk/?p=77&cpage=1#comment-206 Etienne Pollard Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:07:14 +0000 http://www.makeitbetter.org.uk.conservatives.webhoster.co.uk/?p=77#comment-206 The June 2008 Green ICT strategy referred to is online at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/141533/greening_gov_ict080724.pdf The June 2008 Green ICT strategy referred to is online at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/141533/greening_gov_ict080724.pdf

]]> By: Prof. Marcus Xaesar http://www.makeitbetter.org.uk/?p=77&cpage=1#comment-154 Prof. Marcus Xaesar Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:51:38 +0000 http://www.makeitbetter.org.uk.conservatives.webhoster.co.uk/?p=77#comment-154 Solar cells are so dum since they don't compute nothin. Solar cells are so dum since they don’t compute nothin.

]]> By: Dougie http://www.makeitbetter.org.uk/?p=77&cpage=1#comment-33 Dougie Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:39:38 +0000 http://www.makeitbetter.org.uk.conservatives.webhoster.co.uk/?p=77#comment-33 If the Gov't are really serious about green computing then they need to move away from rooms full of rack processors. Get the computing back on a mainframe which could be running multiple copies of Linux. They'll easily reduce their carbon footprint in that way. http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/project_big_green_linux.html If the Gov’t are really serious about green computing then they need to move away from rooms full of rack processors. Get the computing back on a mainframe which could be running multiple copies of Linux. They’ll easily reduce their carbon footprint in that way.

http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/project_big_green_linux.html

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