CEBIT Conference 2010

Posted on 03/03/2010

There was a truly infectious sense of enthusiasm at the CEBIT conference in Hannover.
Close the Gap’s general manager, Olivier Vanden Eynde, visited the conference for a full day, with a clear and substantial program keeping specific ICT projects in mind for Close the Gap and World PC. The main interests for Close the Gap were ICT for Development projects and green IT innovations for energy-friendly consuming hardware in developing countries. 
Power saving technology for personal computers was a hot item during this Cebit conference. We all, in the North and in the South, senselessly use enormous amounts of power for idle personal computers and their components every day! Olivier was able to visit numerous stands showcasing developments of a brand new system to switch a personal computer and connected device to a genuine `off’- mode instead of the usual stand-by mode. This would cut connection to the 230V power-system without any user action and causes 0 Watt stand-by consumption.

Energy costs may drop significantly!

This could prove to be beneficial for private households as well as for schools and other public environments operating large amounts of computers and information technology.

4,157 companies from 68 countries exhibited at CeBIT 2010. One in every five CeBIT visitors was from outside Germany. A slight decrease in attendance from America was offset by larger numbers from Asia in 2010. European attendance was on a par with last year’s high attendance rates.

The CEBIT conference successfully reinforced its profile as an international economic policy platform.

More information on: http://www.cebit.de

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