Team Cognito
Cognito means that one's existence is demonstrated by the fact that one thinks. Cognito is an initiative by the students of IGDTUW, aiming to promote UN Sustainable Development Goals 8 & 9. We believe in fostering innovation, promoting inclusive economic growth and developing a versatile infrastructure for the generation’s good, without compromising on the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Events
Sustainable Sundays
Sustainable Sundays is an online campaign initiated by Cognito, where we post statistics and data about Green Computing and measures which can be taken by us to promote Green Computing every Sunday. Some of our highlighted posts are related to shutting down computers every night, tips to boost the battery life of your android phones, turning off peripherals, and everything you need to know about printers.
Ideate to Sustain
Ideate2Sustain organized by Cognito in collaboration with GeeksforGeeks Student Chapter IGDTUW took place on April 17, 2022. The Ideathon was a team-based competition on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as stated by the UN where participants were required to ideate and come up with a solution toward realizing these goals. We received over 800 registrations, out of which 150 teams were shortlisted on the basis of the MCQ round. The presentation ideas provided by the
shortlisted teams were astonishing. With such brilliant ideas, it was a tough task to shortlist teams for the final round. Nine teams got the opportunity to present their ideas in front of our panelists. The judging criterias were Sustainability and Technology, Innovation and Feasibility, Impact and Completion. The teams provided excellent sustainability solutions. The creativity demonstrated by the participants astounded us.
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Delete to Sustain
In the world of Technology, we are unaware of the number of carbon footprints our gadgets, internet, and video streaming create. With the motive to reduce the number of carbon footprints generated Cognito organized the Delete2Sustain campaign which was an Email Deletion campaign. It took place on 22nd April 2022 through our Twitter Handle (Cognito SDG). This campaign brought an opportunity for all of us to play our part in reducing the carbon footprints generated by our actions. We
witnessed the participation of more than 500 students. As we know Spam, unread and unwanted emails all contribute to carbon emissions. If we delete 500 unread emails (assuming they're not important emails), that would delete 175 grams of carbon dioxide given each email contributes 0.3 grams of CO2. Keeping this in mind the participants brought the following changes such as: Deleting Spam emails, Unsubscribing from emails they no longer need, deleting emails after reading them and many more.
Aware to Sustain
In our daily lives, we all use technology. The pandemic has exposed us all to the technological world. However, we frequently overlook the fact that when using technology, we have a responsibility to the environment. Team Cognito decided to organize the Aware2Sustain campaign with the goal of educating people about Green Computing. The goal of this event was to raise awareness about Green Computing among persons who work with technologies and related devices on a daily basis. It
was intended to educate people on how proper use of their electronic devices may benefit Mother Nature.We invited participants to interview at least one member of their family or friend who is a regular user of technology. They were intended to ask them whether or not they were familiar with the concept of Green Computing and what level of understanding they had. They were then advised to inform them of the situation and enlighten them about the facts of Green Computing so that people begin to use their gadgets more sensibly.
Minimize2Maximize
The campaign was conducted in online mode between 17th June- 24th June 2023 at Twitter, where students had to share their screen time by retweeting our tweet and using hashtag Minimize2Maximize. Using mobile phone for one hour is equal to 36g of CO2 emissions and which is the amount of CO2 a tree absorbs in half of a day. Just one iPhone X will create 79kg of Co2 in its lifetime, roughly the same as burning 9 gallons of petrol and 80% of those emissions happen before it even lefts the factory. Each time a web page loads, it emits around 6.8g of carbon emissions. That is roughly the same as boiling an electric kettle for a cup of tea!
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The event was conducted in offline mode at the auditorium where we educated students about the different ways to replace their paperwork with digital work. We taught students how to use digital services like Digilocker, e-payment applications like Paytm, and phone pay, digital banking like Yono, and applications like Onenote, Evernote, and Google Docs to become productive and organizable. In the paperwork, there is always a threat to security, which can be reduced to some extent in digital storage by making their folders encrypted. We also familiarised students with cloud computing and its uses in different sectors.
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