Document management system for sustainable future

Maureen Chinweokwu of Young & Bailey Nigeria Limited and Hamzat Bala Lawal of the International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development (ICEED) stress in this piece that every business should strive to have a positive impact on the environment and its community by adopting and implementing sustainable policies that improve the quality of life for its customers and employees.

Everywhere, on the news; the internet; adverts; politics; social movements; entertainment and even in technology, environmental friendliness is being promoted. So we engage ourselves by using energy saving bulbs, planting trees and flowers, eating less of processed foods and recycling.

ICT and climate change, an important linkage.

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) play major roles in climate change mitigation and adaptation. This is increasingly recognized within the climate change technology transfer negotiations. According to the World Development Report 2010, the use of ICT is predicted to reduce total greenhouse gases by 15% by 2020.