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Michael J. Oghia is an entrepreneur, tech sustainability consultant, and the founder of Oghia Advising – an independent agency offering services to clients across Europe, North America, and beyond within the digital infrastructure, cyber resilience, Internet governance & policy, and media development sectors. He is a connector at heart and a multi-role communications and engagement professional with more than a decade of experience in sustainability, conflict resolution, development, journalism & media, infrastructure, and policy across seven countries and regions: The United States, Lebanon, India, Turkey, the Netherlands, Serbia & the Balkans, and the Nordics. Michael also loathes referring to himself in third person.
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A new resource dedicated to small and medium-sized digital infrastructure providers in Europe highlights the benefits of incorporating sustainability into their operations, offers a consolidated list of best practices and recommendations, and shares additional resources to help them make practical …
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A critical pillar of a sustainable digital economy is circularity. A circular digital economy will entail a production and consumption model for IT hardware that minimises the amount of resources used while maximising life cycle longevity. But one of the greatest obstacles to realising circularity …
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With hardware cycles slowing and calls for greater sustainability growing, switching to a circular business model is a must. For operators and other RIPE community members, one way to do that is to prioritise refurbished hardware. I teamed up with Lisa Berendse from the Amsterdam-based refurbisher …
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Over the summer, we – the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) – published a three-part series introducing our manifesto for a sustainable European cloud, one that’s open-source, fair, and creates economic opportunities for all. Such digital infrastructure will reflect European values…
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Last month, the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) announced our Open Data Hub, a resource that's meant to boost transparency, trust, and data availability to help researchers, industry, and society realise a sustainable digital economy. It is essentially our answer to the challenge…
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ClimateAction.tech invites you to join us for our #LetsGreenTheWeb campaign – a focused, 5-day Twitter campaign to measure the carbon emissions of websites, share tweets highlighting the results, and encourage developers to reduce website emissions. The campaign will run on Twitter from 15-19 Febru…
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The RIPE community can contribute to a more sustainable Internet in multiple ways, but one of the most immediate and impactful among these involves decisions regarding buying hardware and sourcing services. We take a closer look at the issues surrounding procurement, the resources available, and ex…
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If Europe is going to realise its vision for a greener ICT ecosystem and a sustainable future, support from the RIPE community is imperative. But what can you do - as a network operator and as a user - to work towards a sustainable Internet?
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In recent weeks, I’ve attended two events, SEE 6, hosted by the RIPE NCC in Budva, Montenegro, and the 10th European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) in Tallinn, Estonia. At both events, I had the opportunity to speak about the issue of sustainable access to the Internet.
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“I personally think sustainability is an important goal to achieve in our industry, however RIPE NCC's efforts in this direction appear at least misguided. Instead of recommending, for example, low power devices, or manufacturers produce such devices, the output of Hackathons and other similar events sponsored by RIPE NCC (through the membership fees) can be summarized to: "I went out for a drink with my friends, had a great time, ended up with 5 ChatGPT queries, here is my consulting business, we will do a BCOP next." And this is not the first article of this kind. I would prefer membership fees be used for something more useful. Thank you in advance!”
Hi Jooset! Thank you for taking the time to read and share your thoughts. I want to clarify something about this: I wrote/compiled it on my own accord, on my own time, without a commercial premise, and started working on it in November. I mentioned the Hackathon because I co-organised it and wanted to highlight the good work that was done there, among other projects, like Ramon Bister's carbon-aware routing work. To be clear, this is not the RIPE NCC's work or something the NCC helped me with. I did it on my own with the intention of helping any small operator out there. I published it to RIPE Labs since so many of the people I thought the document would be relevant to are part of the RIPE community. Does that address your concerns?
It was a pleasure to participate, Vesna! I really enjoyed both organising and attending. I'm also looking forward to the next iteration!
Thank you for this, Emil and Alun! From looking at the map you provided, it would be great to see an additional anchor in Katthammarsvik. Do you think it's worth trying to add one there?
Thanks for this, Hisham! I especially liked that OKR table, linking the goals to the programme objectives.
Great initiative @Alun!
Thank you for mentioning sustainability Mirjam! Indeed, I'd love to see a more formal way to address that topic within the RIPE community.
Thanks for this Chris! Running the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'd love to see the RIPE community pushing for sustainability principles as well, i.e., within software or IT operations.
Thanks for this write-up Alun! I just joined the DisNOG – such a good idea. Also, if it's helpful to you and @Vesna, over the years I've worked to update the Wiki entry on NOGs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_network_operators%27_group Maybe it'll be helpful as well! Lastly, one thing that could help is if there was a better understanding of which NOG corresponds to which place. Sometimes it's obvious like UKNOF, but not always.
Thank you so much for including SDIA's event in the update Mirjam! It's always a pleasure to see your name pop up.
Excellent summary, thank you so much Geri!
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