Electricity consumption from the manufacture of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has soared by more than 350 percent worldwide between 2023 and 2024, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia. In East Asia, the global hub for AI semiconductor production, growing electricity demand from AI chipmaking has been met primarily …
The long twentieth century in Indian S&T; based developmental experiments, in particular at grass roots, has thrown up immense volumes of data, facts and artifacts. A crucial issue emerges. The country very badly needs a strong mechanism to capture data related to S&T; and innovation right from the regulatory or …
Emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases can be reduced significantly using existing technologies, but stabilizing concentrations will require a technological revolution because it will require fundamental change, achieved within a relatively short period of time. Inspiration for a climate technology revolution is often drawn from the Apollo space program …
Inaugural speech of Shri Sharad Pawar, Union Minister Of Agriculture And Consumers Affairs, Food and Public Distribution on the occasion of the 4th WCCA, 4th February, 2009, New Delhi. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) will jointly organize the Congress.The deliberations …
This paper presents the results of a study conducted to understand why Green IT initiatives are undertaken, and how the results translate into cost savings, business value and environmental benefits. More than 1,000 IT professionals in midsize businesses, from 12 countries and eight industries have been consulted in the survey. …
This paper presents the findings of a study that appraises and compares different models of public-private partnership (PPP) in rural infrastructure development. The study was commissioned by the Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries (AGS) Division of FAO, under its normative programme on Rural Infrastructure Development. It contributes to the identification of …
This Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change Workforce Needs Assessment Survey was created to uncover some of the unique challenges facing this growing and diverse industry and, specifically, to obtain data regarding industry perceptions, growth projections, workforce needs, policy responses, favored/disfavored protocols, human capital needs and training practices, and other key …
In the present publication, thirty technologies and approaches from the Nepal Conservation Approaches and Technologies (NEPCAT) database, documented using the WOCAT tool, are being published as printed fact sheets to facilitate sharing with a wider audience. The fact sheets are designed to support the efforts of rural development, especially in …
This report gives a clear picture of the key role that the ICT industry plays in addressing climate change globally and facilitating efficient and low carbon development. The role of ICT not only includes emission reduction and energy savings in the ICT sector itself, but also benefits from the adoption …
This report documents a scenario analysis exploring the role of advanced technology in stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. The conceptual framework for the analysis is a set of technology futures implemented in the MiniCAM integrated assessment model. Each future describes a set of technological developments over the 21st century, with …
This brief presents public policy tools available to provide support for research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D;) of technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. An emissions price induced by a cap-and-trade program can provide an incentive to
Poor sanitation is endemic in towns and cities across India and exacts a heavy toll on public health. In response, the Government of India has made increased funding available for the qualifying cities for sanitation infrastructure via the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. These resources are sorely needed, but …
geology Climate change in ice age Greenland ice core analysis showed drastic climate change near the end of last ice age. Scientists have found two huge temperature spikes in the Northern Hemisphere prior to the close of the last ice age, about 11,500 years ago. They ascribe it to fundamental …
NEW DELHI: Intel Corporation on Tuesday unveiled Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology products for laptops, powered by five new Intel Core2 Duo processors. Close to 250 innovative consumer and business notebook PC designs are on the way, including those equipped with the right combination of powerful processors, graphics and battery …
while geologists look through sandstone beds on a dried-up river to piece together what happened millions of years ago, volumes of data are generated. A new software may now help geologists with different kinds of data. It caters to special requirements of field-based studies with systematically loaded data on to …
the Department of Information Technology (dit) has drafted a fresh policy on open standards for e-governance. The new draft may lead to a reconsideration of the department's earlier decision to reject Microsoft's document format, ooxml, as an open standard format. The draft has provision for multiple standards, which can allow …
The government has suspended services of certain services of BlackBerry, one of the latest communication technologies. The wireless hand-held device that allows you to exchange e-mail over the network of a few mobile phone service companies has been deemed a security threat. The security problem arises because the mail is …
An encrypted message is a coded message that can be decoded by a private key. Such messages appear in binary format. A high quality encrypted message is one that is difficult to decode. The longer the message the more difficult it is to decode. Thus a message with 128 bits …
