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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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The digital infrastructure we're all so dependent on has a negative - and growing - impact on the environment. In this episode, Michael Oghia talks about strategies for breaking down the big problem of digital sustainability, strategies for building a more efficient Internet, and challenges that co…
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A quick update: Alun just published a podcast interview we did together to discuss this topic in greater depth. Check it out at: https://labs.ripe.net/author/alun_davies/michael-oghia-making-digital-sustainability-make-sense/
It was such a pleasure to chat with you, Alun! Thank you so much for the opportunity!
“Thanks Michael for sharing your document on sustainability. Prompt III and IV were of great interest for me! The digital world needs urgently to think about how to reduce his impact on the planet.”
It's a pleasure, Laurence, and thank you, too, for reading and letting me know it's helpful!
“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.
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