The British government has published its annual report on the government "greening" project for 2013. Main points of the report
- The average return on investment in green IT has improved in its score from 2.4 to 2.9 since the first report. The government's goal is now to achieve a score of 3 by 2015.
- Four government bodies have supported the EU code concerning data centers. Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) is currently working on rules for purchasing and energy consumption within cloud services.
- Recycling and waste reduction – the government through GPS (The Government Procurement Service) offers organizations their own method of IT recycling. Last year alone, GPS environmentally disposed of a total of 66,448 items, of which 33,514 items were sold (generating funds of £405,881.68). Another 8,738 items were donated, further reducing the total number of items sent for final disposal.
- Last year, GDS (Government Digital Service) published the government digital strategy, followed by digital strategies of individual government departments. These strategies are essential for interaction with citizens and businesses in the provision of public services.
The British government (through GDS) is also currently revising the entire government infrastructure to highlight shortcomings and enable the construction of new and more efficient supporting technologies under the baton of green IT. Until now, "green IT" had not been a major priority for the British. Now, however, it seems that they are experiencing a huge change in thinking and progress. Unfortunately, similar "considerations" do not apply to our republic, primarily because it is not only completely unconceptual, but above all, people are rushing into government who can barely operate a mobile phone and would gladly, if it were only slightly possible, immediately ban all those internets or at least tax them properly. This is also underlined by the Social Democrats, who are already declaring that after the elections they plan to increase taxes for telecommunications, energy, and the financial sector to 25 to 30 percent. ed