Computers Off Australia campaign poised to shutdown

Mike Bantick
Friday, 20 June 2008 13:32

Your IT - Entertainment

A new campaign is ready to roll out in the Australian media to raise awareness of these figures, and start some power button pressing thoughts rumbling through our collective skulls.

According to organisers: The objectives of the ‘Computers Off’ campaign and labelling initiative is a part of a the new development of practical programs being offered by the Information and Communication Technologies industry to improve energy efficiency and deal with global climate change.
      
The Computers Off campaign is a simple, yet important initiative which is designed to educate home users, business and government about how we can all help reduce Australia’s carbon footprint by implementing virtualisation and power management practices on our home and work computers.
      
The Computers off ‘label’ has been created as the computer industry’s guide to help business, government and individuals quickly and easily identify organisations that are doing their part to reduce their power consumption and in turn reducing their CO2 emissions. This non-for-profit initiative supports an industry-wide target to achieve a 50 per cent improvement in Australia’s and global computer energy efficiency by 2010.