Ericsson bags ‘Green ICT Champion’ at Africa Tech Festival 2021

At the Africa Tech Festival, Ericsson received the Green ICT Champion of the Year Award 2021 for its Breaking the Energy Curve campaign. The 14th edition of the Awards honors and rewards inventions and innovators across the African continent who are promoting transformation, inclusivity, and digital democracy. This year marks the inaugural year of the Green ICT Champion of the Year Award, which honors Ericsson for pioneering the development and integration of sustainable energy solutions.

Fida Kibbi, Vice President & Head of Marketing, Communications, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility at Ericsson Middle East and Africa, said: “Sustainability is central to Ericsson’s purpose and vision. Our teams have developed a unique network-level approach to reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in mobile networks, which is set to enable the exponential growth of data traffic without increasing energy consumption. We are committed to creating positive impacts in society, and we are honored to see it recognized at this year’s Africa Tech Festival.”

By developing novel techniques to stabilize and then reduce total network energy use by 2025, Ericsson is assisting service providers in breaking the energy curve. It covers solutions that allow operator networks to consume as little energy as feasible while handling predicted data traffic growth and satisfying current and future network demands. Service providers will be able to accomplish something that has never been done before in history, and they may be able to break the network energy curve for the first time.