The 21st Century Office: A low carbon economy and transformative change

This is a short movie that explains the opportunity with ICT/IT for a low carbon office development. It is a movie about the difference between a 20th Century Office (the one most still have) and the 21st Century Office. But it is also a movie about the need to think beyond incremental changes.

The movie is part of a thought-leadership project and is linked to a web-page and mobile applications for iPhone and Android.

If the project is successful we will have achieved the following:
➢Better understanding among users about the potential of new technology solutions using 21st Century infrastructure
➢A database with ideas that can help companies move towards a 21st Century Office
➢Better understanding of future web-tools and apps that can help deliver real change among app/web developers
➢Emission reductions from users that use submitted ideas. This is not a theoretical idea, the tool will be measured and evaluated.
➢Developers and users gets more interested in applications that can make a real difference and contribute to a resource and fair society,

See and judge for yourself, are you a 20th or 21st Century person and is this the kind of narrative that can contribute to a transformative shift in society?
http://www.21st-century-office.net/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Low carbon society
• innovation
• IT
• economy
• transformative
• smart buildings
• e-books
• videoconferencing
• virtual meetings

[akauppi2]

This movie's brilliantly edited and I like its approach of showing the underlying "hidden sins". However, I believe I'm already very much jn the "21st century office" world. IT, computers. What the movie does not touch is the ability for shared usage, s.a. office hubs. To me, it's brilliantly done short movie which is ... a bit outdated in contents.

Also, there are hidden CO2 emissions involved with Internet as well. The movie simply ignores that inconvenient side.

[DennisPamlin]

@akauppi2 Thanks

My take: In the best case shared office space is a bridge to a true 21st Century office where the laptop/mobile device is the "office", worst case it is a distraction. Many still have a hard time getting away from the idea of an office as a physical space so maybe we should have mentioned shared office to make it easier for people to follow the thinking.

The ICTs own emissions are mentioned at 3:21. We spent 2% of the time in the video discussing the 2% impact of ICT.... ;)

[akauppi2]

Thanks for the reply, Dennis. I still doubt the 2% - depends on what all is counted in. Also, just that you know, a movement called Green Office in Finland is often regarded as bogus by employees. It's like greenwash of the organization, it often seems. Like those multiple lines at the email footer: "don't print this email - think of the environment". I like short and concise. But as I said - I liked the style and editing of the video.

[TrandomnesstwO]

Yes.

[leelow179]

Brilliant inspiration (Y)

[juliank1971]

Excellent ideas

[juliank1971]

Excellent ideas