Contributing to a Sustainable and Greener Olympic Games
As the Worldwide Information Technology Partner and Top Partner of the Olympic Games, Atos Origin is committed to helping the IOC and the Organizing Committees to deploy technological solutions to shrink the Games' carbon footprint. This is happening in many different ways from reducing paper consumption, reducing the amount of hardware and power consumption, and cutting down on travel.
For the Beijing Games in 2008, Atos Origin developed the first remote Information System for sports commentators. This reduced travel and therefore CO2 emissions, as well as costs. Remote Info will also be used in Vancouver and London to help reduce the sheets of paper that were printed in Beijing by providing the competition schedules and results directly to the journalists’ computers.
For the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Atos Origin has developed and will operate the first online Volunteer platform. This will process more than 50,000 applications from people in 100 countries, thus reducing travel to physical locations, paper consumption and the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
In another first, the online Accreditation System is one of Atos Origin’s many initiatives to deploy technological solutions that help the Vancouver organizing committee deliver a more sustainable Games and significantly reduce the amount of paper used during the Games. Previously, applications for accreditation were printed and sent around the world.
We also help to deploy an environmentally-friendly infrastructure for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games through the use of virtualization. The design of a more efficient IT infrastructure helps to reduce electricity consumption by 30% in several instances.
At London 2012, Atos Origin will leverage a number of technology innovations to improve access to information and with the objective to deliver the most sustainable Olympic Games yet. For the first time, we will implement a new solution, designed together with the IOC, – the Olympic Data Feed - to consolidate all data feeds to the newswires, websites and London 2012 intranet into a single solution to provide a more sustainable and efficient service.
“Atos Origin continues to demonstrate a great deal of initiative and imagination in coming up with tailor-made solutions to meet our needs for IT systems and infrastructure for hosting the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Through great initiatives like the online accreditation system, Atos Origin is also significantly contributing to our goal to make the Games as environmentally responsible as possible.”
Ward Chapin, Chief Information Officer VANOC