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By providing more USDA employees
with the ability to use flexible
schedules, greenhouse emission
caused by USDA employees
commuting to and from their office
can be significantly reduced.
6.2
Initiative Areas
The USDA OCIO has delineated IT focused initiative areas,
where USDA can make impacts towards accomplishing the
goals set forth in the Executive Order and the Secretary’s
Memo. The detailed descriptions provide examples of
initiative area programs that can be enabled to provide
results in a greener USDA.
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6.2.1 Employee-Enabled Programs
Telework
New IP telephony is driving the Work-At-Home (WAH)
trend by enabling employees to be deployed anywhere that
can be reached by a broadband network, and enabling the
blending of voice and data services. All these activities are
reducing operational costs and reducing the amount of
GHG emissions.
t e c h n o l o g y: ca l l center, s h i f t-m a n a g e m e n t,
Wo r k f o r c e optimization (Wfo).
m e a s u re: re d u c t i o n in c a r b o n emissions by
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re d u c i n g t h e n u m b e r o f employees
c o m m u t i n g.
t e c h n o l o g y: ip telephony a n d presence t e c h n o l o g y
f o r Wah employees.
m e a s u re: alloW Wah s o u rc i n g m o d e l s .
Web Collaboration / Wiki’s / File Sharing
Collaboration tools that enable file sharing, Web
conferencing, instant messaging, chat and video conferencing,
and electronic, interactive whiteboards are a valuable way to
close the gaps between physical venues and virtual meeting
places, encouraging the continuance of creativity and team
building.
A wiki enables documents to be written collaboratively,
using a Web browser. A wiki is a database for creating,
browsing, and searching through information which allows
for communication to occur without having to be in the
office.