Category: Green ICT
Smart Campus: Sustainable Waste Recycling Apps
As part of our Smart Cities initiative, we have been collaborating with the Ecoversity initiative of the University of Adelaide. Though this collaboration, we are about to complete a very interesting pilot project aimed at educating students and staff about the sustainable waste recycling on campus. The project has developed a mobile Apps that provide…
Smart Campuses – Experimental Platforms for Smart Cities
Smart Cities initiatives are gaining popularity in almost every corner of the World – increasing urbanisation and myriad of socio-economic challenges are forcing governments and public sector organisations to leverage Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for conceiving and materialising innovative solutions for socio-economic challenges under a broad umbrella of Smart Cities. Since Smart Cities initiatives present…
Inaugural Congress on Smart Cities Initiative
We are delighted to share that our inaugural conference on Smart Cities was hugely successful in term of the number of attendees and the fruitfulness of the discussions. The congress attracted delegates from the attendees of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, Industry, government, and academia. This congress was aimed at bringing the key stakeholders involved…
Tales of Migrating to Clouds
Yesterday, it was a great experience to be at MESOCA 2013 (the 7th IEEE International Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. I was there to give an invited talk and join the organising committee of the next year’s symposium. My talk (Slides here) was aimed at sharing our findings coming…
Building European Software Architecture Community: How Far Have We Come?
This is the title of an introduction of the guest editors to a special theme of an upcoming journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM). This special theme carries four papers which are an extended and revised versions of the papers published in 4th edition of European Conference of Software Architecture (ECSA 2010) which was…
NordiCloud: Nordic Symposium on Cloud Computing & Internet Technologies!
Given the increasing interest in exploring the opportunities that Cloud computing and “everything as a service” (software/platform/infrastructure/data as a service on the cloud) can offer to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of IT infrastructure in public as well as private sector, several initiatives are being taken to support R&D and commercial efforts in Nordic countries.…
Green Software Services
Given a significant amount of CO2 emission is caused by ICT, several efforts are geared towards making this sector more energy efficient – e.g., a huge amount of R&D resources are being allocated to make ICT systems and their use environmentally friendly, or so-called Green IT. Apart from a few exceptions, most of the resources…