{"id":30483,"date":"2024-05-07T15:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=30483"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:51:59","slug":"areai-ncc-collaborate-on-smart-climate-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/07\/areai-ncc-collaborate-on-smart-climate-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"AREAi, NCC Collaborate on Smart Climate Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have announced a collaboration to research the environmental impacts of technology and the digital sector&#8217;s role in addressing the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The NCC previously reported that the energy sector, crucial for Nigeria&#8217;s ICT and digital technology systems, accounts for approximately 34% of the country&#8217;s total net greenhouse gas emissions, making it the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference held in Abuja, Prince Gideon Olanrewaju, the CEO and Project Manager of AREAi, highlighted the need to address the environmental footprint of the Information and Communication Industry (ICT), which has been relatively overlooked in efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Olanrewaju emphasized the importance of coordinated efforts across political, industrial, and informal sectors to mitigate ICT emissions. He noted that the tech ecosystem, including innovation hubs, technology startups, and data processing centers, significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, with mobile phones and internet connectivity prevalent in Nigerian homes.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration, known as SCALE (Smart Climate Awareness, Learning, and Empowerment), aims to enrich the evidence base on reducing the digital environmental footprint. It will focus on:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Lifecycle Analysis:<\/strong> Managing the lifecycle analysis of products and services to reduce environmental impacts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Measurement Approaches:<\/strong> Adapting approaches to measure the impacts associated with IT assets and data centers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovation:<\/strong> Innovating new measures to integrate environmental considerations into IT processes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital Environmental KPIs:<\/strong> Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor environmental impacts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The collaboration will involve regulatory partners like the NCC and NITDA, highlighting the importance of multi-stakeholder engagement in addressing the environmental challenges posed by the tech ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have announced a collaboration to research the environmental impacts of technology and the digital sector&#8217;s role in addressing the climate crisis. The NCC previously reported that the energy sector, crucial for Nigeria&#8217;s ICT and digital technology systems, accounts for approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30494,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30483\/revisions\/30494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}