Happy 3rd Birthday Green IO!

Hello responsible technologist! 
 

🎉 HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY GREEN IO! Time to celebrate! 🎉

And so it’s time for our yearly transparency check, with some vanity metrics to kick things off.

• Podcast followers: With several thousands of listeners per month, across 50+ countries, and more than 1.5K followers across different platforms, all indicators seem (cautiously) to be green.
• Podcast guests: We welcomed 36 guests from 18 countries covering topics from hyperscalers to SEO, assessment matrix to the gaming industry. More than ever, Green IO is progressing as a generalist media within the IT sustainability niche.

Our top flops?
N°1 - YouTube. “Gaël, this is the rising platform for podcast”, “YouTube is the 3rd podcast platform now”,... Well, maybe, but not for our listeners. Time, money and wanting to remain consistent about digital frugality means for the moment we'll keep posting there for our few followers, though with minimum effort.

N°2 - Global South. Only 2 guests where located in the “Global South” over the last 12 months. This became a growing concern for me when I realized how a single episode with Paz Peña Ochoa and Pablo José Gámez Cersosimo was an eye opener on several topics. I'm actively looking to secure a wider geographical diversity of guests.

Looking back
I realized that me being really fed-up about the AI hype and nonsense meant I actually didn't cover it in 2024. Maybe it was a bit too much... I intend to put this right, and thorough discussions are already planned with responsible AI experts this semester.
I have also decided to stop doing country-focus episodes which are consistently among the lower performers. I will simply concentrate on securing guests from all over the world for topic-focus episodes and ask them also about the situation in their geographical area. Best of both worlds.
BTW, I went for a quiet March 8th. Because for the second year in a row, we comfortably reached gender parity. Because it should be the norm for any podcast including those in the IT industry. Because sometimes we should leave some room in these noisy social networks for people having important news to share.

So what next?
Last month I sent a message to a small group of Green IO fans asking them for feedback and ideas on the future orientation of our growing Green IO community. I received many insights to help me fine tune the initiative - it was invaluable, so many thanks again for your time and input. And now I'd love to test them all! And to do so, Green IO is opening its community space! 🎉
I always wanted to make the podcast – as well as the newsletter and the conferences - a collective exercise more than a one-man show. Starting this month, all regular listeners and readers willing to contribute to Green IO making (guest suggestion, episode feedback, promotion, etc.) will have the ability to join Green IO Slack workspace. Don't get me wrong, I do not intend to create a duplicate of the already amazing existing open communities such as ClimateAction.tech CIC, CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability, Boavizta or GreenIT.fr just to name a few. This one will be focused in levering this community tool built for responsible technologists and more and more by responsible technologists which is the Green IO media.

I am really excited and energized by this new phase in the Green IO adventure, and look forward to all the future collaborations. Once again, many thanks for all the previous feedback - keep it coming!