一起加入「2022 年數位大掃除」的行列！刪除數位垃圾，讓地球降溫！
什麼是數位大掃除(Digital Cleanup)？
與我們所處的環境相同，在數位世界中，存在龐大數量的垃圾。
不必要的電子郵件、文件、應用程式、照片和影片的副本都是數位垃圾。
這些數位垃圾會造成數位污染，即使我們忘記了它們，它們仍在伺服器裡繼續消耗電力。
全球網路每年產生 9 億噸二氧化碳，這超過了整個德國的一年的總量。研究估計，十年後全球網路將消耗世界總能源的 20%。
如果我們刪除所有不必要的檔案，不僅可以減少大量碳排，還可以延長設備的使用壽命，手機與電腦透過定期清理又多了儲存空間，我們沈甸甸的腦子也變得更輕盈、工作起來更有效率！
2021/9/1 *至 2022/3/20
邀請您減少碳排量，加入數位大掃除行動！
為什麼要做數位大掃除？
你知道嗎？
- 如果 7000 萬串流媒體用戶將其串流媒體服務的影片畫質從「高清」降低到「標準」，每月將減少 350 萬噸二氧化碳——相當於美國每月煤炭消耗總量的 6%。
- 一名員工在開啟鏡頭的情況下參與 15 小時的線上會議，每月會產生 9.4 公斤二氧化碳。若關閉視訊，他將減少相當於每晚為智慧型手機充電充 3 年（1151 天）所產生的碳排量。
- 開採比特幣所消耗的能源比紐西蘭一年消耗的能源還要多。重點是，挖掘比特幣只會產生幾個byte的加密數據，它在計算過程中卻消耗了大量能量，而沒有實際創造產品或使用服務。
- 以您用於影音串流的能源（平均每天 2 小時計算），您可以使用電動機車每年通勤 3000 公里（以每天 8 公里的交通量計算）。
- Google 每天使用 15616 MWh 的能源，這比胡佛水壩 (Hoover Dam) 生產的能源還多，它可以為一個擁有 100 萬居民的國家提供一天的電力。
- 我們無止盡地使用網路，其消耗的能量是世界上所有太陽能電板所能產生的能量的 3 倍。支撐網路運算的能源主要依賴化石燃料，因此點擊、刷文和看片等資料傳輸產生了超過 8.7 億噸的二氧化碳，加劇了全球暖化趨勢。
- 每天有 2810 億封電子郵件在地球上穿梭傳遞。每天更新、閱讀和回覆工作郵件需要 3 個小時以上，如果包括個人 email 帳戶，則需要 5 個小時。它可能佔用我們工作日的 23% 以上，一年超過 20 週。整理您的電子郵件，減少發送郵件，並使用其他溝通方式（例如共同工作空間）可以騰出更多時間，也可以減少透過電子郵件溝通工作規劃的低效做法。
(相關資料來源請見全球官網)
我可以怎麼做？
個人行動方案
Step 1: 清理您的智慧型手機
- 刪除您一段時間未使用或僅使用過幾次的所有應用程式(app)。刪除那些您已經下載但從未或很少用的、不必要的、被遺忘的舊應用程式和遊戲。它們即使在不使用時也會消耗能源，並且每個月以消耗數百MB的數據進行更新。
- 別忘了刪除您成長到現在建立卻許久沒登入的任何帳戶（包括電子郵件）及其所有資料。您將加快手機速度並延長電池使用時間。
- 查看您的照片和影片。透過刪除不必要的和重複的內容，您可能可以釋出數 10GB 的寶貴儲存空間！
Step 2: 清理您的 PC 或筆記型電腦
- 歸檔重要文件，刪除重複或無用的文件。
- 對照片進行排序，刪除重複和模糊的照片。
- 刪除已經看過且不再需要的影片。
Step 3: 清理您的電子信箱
- 排序郵件，從最舊的電子郵件開始過濾並將其封存。
- 退訂您未閱讀的時事。
- 選擇長對話、最新的對話，然後刪除其他所有對話。
- 搜索常見的名稱、標籤、帳號以集結類似的電子郵件，以便您快速處理。勇敢點，按下「刪除」！
Step 4: 培養友善環境新習慣
- 不要發送電子郵件，而是多多使用「共同工作空間」。
- 停止發送「好的」和「謝謝」的電子郵件！
- 將重要文件保存在雲端的一個地方，無需在每台電腦中保存相同的文件。在備份之前先考慮一下。確保只備份您需要的文件和您喜歡的照片。
- 小小改變自己網路使用習慣，例如在線上會議期間關閉視訊、降低串流媒體服務的畫質、減少遊戲時間、減少社群媒體使用時間以及取消訂閱不會讀的時事期刊和電子郵件列表，都可以顯著減少您的環境足跡！
公司與組織行動方案
如何減少您公司的數位足跡？
Step 1: 定義哪些是垃圾
您公司中的數位垃圾是什麼？哪些數位程序 (digital procedures) 會在您的組織中產生環境足跡？
數位垃圾可以是任何東西，從無意義的副本到被遺忘的備份，再到保存多年只為了以防萬一的客戶記錄。但是，您的數位足跡也會因為以下方式而增加：來回發送的電子郵件與父ㄐ與附件、不常使用的線上工作區、即時備份大文件到伺服器裡、舉行線上長時間會議等等。
解決這個問題的好方法是定義什麼是關鍵業務，法律要求保留哪些類型的記錄，以及評估數位程序的效率。
Step 2: 找出您的數位垃圾
找出您遺忘的數位垃圾在哪裡：檢查您的備份、電子郵件、過期的記錄和文檔、伺服器上保存的內容以及大型文件的保存位置。
Step 3: 公司內部數位打掃
對您的員工進行數位垃圾的教育，並與您的員工一起規劃數位大掃除，您可以鼓勵他們在個人和公司設備中進行清理。也可請您的 IT 部門提出可以減少垃圾的數位實踐的解決方案。
Step 4: 實施有助於控制數位垃圾的做法
自動刪除過期文件，以您組織的方式規劃線上工作區，召開有效率的視訊會議，確保您有效地使用虛擬辦公室，教育您的員工進行數位化實踐，並丟棄不適用的系統。
更多資訊請見全球官網>>
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What is Digital Cleanup?
In the digital world, similar to the environment, there is a huge amount of trash.
Unnecessary emails, files, apps, duplicates of photos and videos are all digital waste.
This digital trash creates digital pollution that continues to consume energy even when we have forgotten it.
Digital trash sits in the backups on servers that provide us with cloud service and continue consuming electricity.
Each year the internet and its supporting systems produce 900 million tons of CO2,
which is more than the annual output of the whole of Germany.
Some studies estimate that in a decade the internet network will consume 20 percent of the world’s total energy.
If we delete all unnecessary files, apps, photos, and videos, we are not just saving a huge amount of CO2 but we are also extending the life of our gadgets, feel more balanced, and we take control over our lives, forge new digital habits, and we will be more efficient and satisfied.
Sounds like a win-win!
Be cool – don’t feed global warming with digital trash!
Cut down your CO2 share, join the Digital Cleanup Day movement,
from 1st of September 2021 * to 20th March 2022!
Why should we do Digital Cleanup?
Did you know?
l If 70 million streaming subscribers were to lower the video quality of their streaming services from HD to Standard, there would be a monthly reduction in 3.5 million tons of CO2 – the equivalent of eliminating 6% of the total monthly coal consumption in the U.S
l An employee who participates in 15 hours of online meetings with their camera turned on, created 9.4 kg CO2 a month. By turning off the video he would save the same amount of emissions that are created by charging a smartphone each night for over 3 years (1151 days)
l It takes more energy to mine for BitCoins than the whole of New Zealand consumes in a year. It is important to remember that mining BitCoin produces nothing but a few bytes of encrypted data. It consumes tremendous amounts of energy with computing without actually creating a product or a service of use.
l With the energy you use for video streaming ( on average 2 hrs per day), you could commute up to 3000km or 2000 miles with an electric scooter a year. That is a transport budget of 8km or 5 miles per day.
l Google uses 15616 MWh of energy each day, this is more than Hoover Dam produces and it would power a whole country with 1 million inhabitants for a day.
l Our limitless consumption of data today needs 3 times more energy than all the solar panels in the world can produce. Our internet craze works mostly on fossil fuels, so clicking, scrolling, and streaming are responsible for more than 870 million tonnes of CO2, adding more force to the deadly global warming trend.
l Each day 281 Billion emails whoosh around our planet. Refreshing, reading, and replying to our work emails takes more than 3 hours a day, 5 if you include personal email accounts. It can take more than 23% of our workday, more than 20 weeks a year. Organizing your emails, sending less of them, and using alternative ways of communication, like co-working spaces, would free that time, but also limit the ineffective practice of organizing work through emails.
How should I do?
Individual Action Plan
STEP 1: CLEAN YOUR SMARTPHONE UP
Remove all applications that you haven’t used for a while or used only a few times. Be honest and bold! Delete all those unnecessary forgotten old apps and games that you have downloaded, but not yet even really tried. You won’t start using them later either – for sure! They consume energy even when they are not in use and can consume monthly hundreds of megabytes of data for updates.
Don’t forget to delete any user accounts (including emails) and all the data you created when you were 15 and haven’t accessed it for a decade. You will speed up your phone and increase the battery time – it is always worth it to have a few apps as necessary.
Review your photos and videos. By deleting the unnecessary and the duplicates, you can free up tens of gigabytes of valuable storage.
STEP 2: CLEAN YOUR PC OR LAPTOP UP
Clean your PC and delete files that are duplicates or have become useless. Sort your photos, delete duplicates and blurry ones. Go through the videos and delete watched or unnecessary files. Archive the important files. Be prepared to find really amazing things on your computer!
STEP 3: CLEAN YOUR MAILBOX UP
Filter emails by the oldest one and archive them. UNSUBSCRIBE from newsletters you don’t read. Select long conversations, pick the newest one and DELETE everything else. Search for common names, addresses, and words to round up similar emails so you can deal with them as mass. Be brave and click the DELETE button.
STEP 4: MAKE NEW ARRANGEMENTS
Instead of sending emails, use more co-working places. Stop sending ‘ok’ and ‘thank you’ emails! Keep the important files in a cloud in one place so there is no need to keep the same file in every computer. Think first before you backup. Create less “fast content” and be more intentional about your videos and photos. Make sure you back up only files that you will need and photos that you love.
Small changes in your Internet habits such as turning off video during a virtual meeting, reducing the quality of streaming services, decreasing gaming time, limiting time on social media, and unsubscribing from newsletters and email lists can significantly reduce your environmental footprint!
Organization Action Plan
STEP 1: KNOW WHAT IS TRASH, WHAT IS NOT
What is digital waste in your organization? Which digital procedures create an environmental footprint in your organization?
Digital waste could be anything from pointless copies to forgotten backups to customer records kept for years just in case. But your digital footprint also increases by sending emails with or without files back and forth, using virtual workspaces irregularly, backing up large files on servers in real-time, holding long meetings with videos streaming, etc. A great way to start figuring this out is to make an overview of what is business-critical, what kind of records are required to be kept by the law, and by evaluating the efficiency of your digital procedures.
STEP 2: MAP YOUR DIGITAL WASTE
Find out where your forgotten digital trash is: check your backups, e-mails, expired records, and documents, what is kept on servers, and where large files are kept.
STEP 3: ORGANIZE A DIGITAL CLEANUP
Educate your staff about digital waste and organize a digital cleanup day with your staff, you can encourage them to clean in their personal and company devices. Organize a competition, or challenge your co-workers to participate. Get rid of all junk and keep what is business-critical in cloud servers. Include your IT department in coming up with solutions that would cut down on wasteful digital practices.
STEP 4: IMPLEMENT PRACTICES THAT HELP CONTROL THE DIGITAL WASTE ISSUE:
Automate deletion of expired files, organize virtual workspace in a way you would organize an office, have less and more effective video meetings, make sure you are using your virtual office effectively, educate your employees in digital practices, and give up systems that don’t serve you well.
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