Technology specialists at the fourth annual 'Women in IT Conference' at Dubai Women's College (DWC) called the increased dependence on gadgets as the beginning of a new 'ICE Age'. This year's conference focusing on 'Green IT' was inaugurated by Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Fariba Partawi, senior IT officer at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, told students at DWC, “We are drowning under the mountain of our own electronic waste. By the year 2020, 45 per cent of domestic electricity would be consumed by Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE). The two combined is being called the new Ice Age.” ICE products account for two per cent of carbon emissions. Green IT is the combating of environmental challenges by responsible management of IT resources and avoiding reckless use of IT resources. Partawi observed that ICT products were pervasive as they were present everywhere and in every home had multiple devices to compound the problem.

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