Vertatique includes Green ICT progress and issues from outside the United States. Here are some updates from this region. Click here for more Green ICT news and analysis from this and all the regions around the world.

The Sustainable Scribe, the blog of planetforward.ca, is publishing occasional posts on sustainable media production under the heading Green Screen. We encourage Green Screen to publish regularly, particularly to update the global ICT community on green media in Canada.

The Quest for Canada's Smartest IT contest includes a "Greenest IT Award". Award applicants need to make a compelling case in three areas: "Maturity, Green IT & Business, and the WOW! factor."

ICT and e-media organizations are recognizing Earth Day 2010 through everything from software giveaways to scavenger hunts.

The Green Electronics Council launched an international EPEAT purchasing registry which "enables the world’s leading electronics manufacturers to list ‘green’ computers and monitors in over 41 countries across the globe." The registry is revealing about the distribution of EPEAT product availability.

Lithium batteries are showing up in everything from personal e-gear to communications backup systems to next-gen electric cars. Will they become the next e-waste? And do you know the important distinction between recycling Li and Li-ion technology?

Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE) is funding the GreenStar Network, whose goal is "to develop the world's first internet network, where the network nodes will be powered entirely by wind and solar energy." I welcome CANARIE's $2 million commitment to spur progress in the 'CT' side of Green ICT.

Green ICT becoming increasingly important to sustainability initiatives at educational institutions. Here is an update on resources for that sector.

The 20 most populous countries comprise about half of the world's population. Yet 18 of these lie outside of what is generally perceived as the North American/Western Europe Green ICT nexus. These nations aspire to rapidly build out their ICT infrastructures. Nigeria, for example, already has GSM networks connecting ~50 million phones; over 130 radio and television broadcasters; domestic communications networks utilizing satellites, coastal submarine cable, land fiber, and microwave relays; and international connectivity via satellites and submarine cable.

These countries' ICT build-outs will have a significant future impact on global energy, carbon, and e-waste. Yet we hear very little about GreenICT challenges or progress in these countries. Go to our Global Green page to see what we've learned and to contribute by posting information about these countries.

The 18 countries, listed left-to-right in order of descending population, are:

Here are some public data centers and ISPs offering various shades of green computing

Userful (Calgary, Canada) is presenting its planned deployment of over 300,000 workstations in Brazilian schools as an economical and sustainable way to expand educational computing. Userful claims that it can turn one PC into up to ten student workstations for as little as $50 per seat with these benefits:

Canada emerged as a center for global film and video production in the 1990s.  Green Screen Toronto is an initiative designed to advance sustainability within that media hub. GST's Resource Guide, while focused on Ontario, gives content creators everywhere an idea of the kinds of options that they can seek out within their own locales or when doing work in the Toronto area.