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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?
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.
Thank you all so much for covering this, especially you Suzanne for spotlighting the session on sustainability :)
And you did wonderfully, Alastair! It was a pleasure to meet you, and I look forward to seeing you again soon.
Thanks for this Jordi, I just tweeted it out.
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