IBM plan for Open Footprint Platform Sonia Van Ballaert
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 2021-07-07

The Open Group Open Footprint Global Event June 2021. IBM plan for Open Footprint Platform Sonia Van Ballaert.
In this session Sonia took attendees through IBM's plans for The Open Footprint Forum.
What is the Open Footprint™ Forum? https://www.opengroup.org/openfootprint-forum 
Currently, the lack of standards for storing, defining, and accessing Green House Gases (GHG) scope data, including CO2 and carbon, has major business implications. For example, in a supply chain with multiple participating companies, when the recipient of the supply chain wants to calculate the total carbon footprint of an end product, it is virtually impossible since each supply chain participant has stored data using its own standards. Without the Open Footprint Forum, organizations would resort to acquiring or building incompatible and expensive custom solutions that don’t interoperate throughout their supply chains. Having individual standards is wasteful. The supply chain is just one example; however, there are several other examples where it makes no business sense to have individual standards for GHG data.

The Open Footprint™ Forum provides an environment for access to one set of standards across ALL INDUSTRIES. (Spanning all industries is very important to the supply chain.) For that, we deliver:

• A flexible data platform
• A set of data definitions
• A set of metadata definitions
• An API (Application Program Interface) to access the data

Find out more about OFP via: https://www.opengroup.org/openfootprint-forum 
Join the Open Footprint Forum on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12472327/
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