The Green Gown Award for ICT, co-sponsored by JISC and UCISA has been won by the University of Liverpool’s innovative PowerDown project. PowerDown switches off idle student PCs when no one is logged in, saving over a million hours of unnecessary energy per month. The University of Liverpool has made PowerDown freely available, and the fact that other universities and colleges have already implemented it was a key factor in Liverpool’s success.
The winner of the Outstanding ICT Initiative award has been announced at the Times Higher Leadership and Management Awards. The awards are designed to celebrate the sector’s leadership, management, financial and business skills and JISC’s award generated 17 entries from universities across the UK. In the end, the Open University (OU) entry was chosen for its virtual learning environment called OpenLearn which has widened access to education and transformed learning in developing countries.
