ITI's VP Rick Goss to Testify Before Congress on Industry Sustainability Achievements

ITI's VP Rick Goss to Testify Before Congress on Industry Sustainability
Achievements

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Examines Green IT Procurement

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Information
Technology Industry Council's Vice President of Environment and
Sustainability, Rick Goss, will testify before the House Subcommittee on
Government Management, Organization, and Procurement on the United States
Government's green initiatives in the life cycle management of its vast
holding of IT assets, from the procurement to disposal phase.

"Our member companies have long been leaders in sustainability with many
exceeding the requirements on environmental design and energy efficiency, and
leading the way in product stewardship efforts," said Goss. "Our members also
hold 4 of the top 5 positions - and 14 of the top 40 slots overall - according
to Newsweek's recent 2009 Green Rankings of America's 500 largest
corporations."

Specifically, the subcommittee is interested in hearing what government-wide
policies are now in place that promote the purchase of IT energy-efficient
products, the use of recycled materials in the manufacture of new IT products,
and the responsible disposal and recycling of obsolete IT assets. The
hearing will attempt to determine to what extent mandated United States
Government green initiatives are being implemented by various agencies as well
as the level of interagency coordination and cooperation in the management of
government IT assets.

The United States Government (USG) is the world's largest single purchaser of
ICT equipment and services, and is expected to spend over $75 billion in 2010.
Consequently, the USG has a significant role to play in driving continuous
sustainability achievements in the ICT marketplace and in setting a leading
example throughout the public and private sectors. Examples of such IT
products purchased by the USG are computers, printers, scanners, memory chips,
portable devices, cell phones, servers, microprocessors, monitors, and related
communications infrastructure.

For more information about ICT companies leading the charge on America's
innovation economy visit http://www.itic.org.

About ITI
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advocate, and thought leader for the information and communications technology
(ICT) industry. ITI is widely recognized as the tech industry's most effective
advocacy organization in Washington D.C., and in various foreign capitals
around the world.

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Council, +1-202-626-5725, asimmons@itic.org