South Africa’s higher education IT sector held its third Green IT special interest group (SIG) webinar today under the auspices of the South African University Directors of Information Technology (ASAUDIT).  There were 11 participants from SU, UCT, NMMU, UP, UNISA and UJ. Kimon de Greeff and Charl Souma of the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Adriaan Vorster of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) presented on the following:

1. Kimon – UCT’s online car pooling systems for students, RideLink
2. Adriaan – UJ’s renovation of its data centre cooling
3. Charl – update on UCT’s e-waste initiative
4. Charl – UCT’s energy-monitoring system under implementation.

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