Blog - May 2021

Jaafar Elmirghani participated as a panelist on the topic of "Clean-IT: Towards Sustainable Digital Technologies" at the Global Solutions Summit.

May 27th, 2021

On 27 May, Jaafar Elmirghani participated as a panelist on the topic of "clean-IT: Towards Sustainable Digital Technologies" at the Global Solutions Summit.

Digital technologies are indispensable to achieving sustainable development goals and reducing carbon emissions in many sectors. Yet, computer systems themselves have an immense energy requirement for their countless devices, data centres, applications, and global networks. With Covid-19 the shift to digital in living, learning, and earning is bringing us closer to the time when digitization will become the climate hazard No. 1.