ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future

eBook by Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM

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Contents

Sustainability Strategy

Objective: Prepare a sustainability strategy for IT in an organisation, covering both energy and materials use.

Identify existing, new and emerging hardware, software and communication technologies for energy saving and materials reuse in ICT, and relate these technologies to ICT as it is used in organisations. Apply improved ICT technology and practices into organisational processes, strategic planning and management. Incorporate Green ICT in the strategic requirements of the business. Recommend alternative solutions which reduce environmental impact. Write green ICT requirement documents for products and services. Ensure that processes meet sustainability and quality standards.

  1. Enabling ICT
  2. Business Process Improvement
  3. Improving Data Centre Energy Efficiency
  4. Enterprise Architecture
  5. Procurement
  6. Energy Star Program and Quality Management

About the book: ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future

ICT Sustainability is about how to assess, and reduce, the carbon footprint and materials used with computers and telecommunications. These are the notes for an award winning course on strategies for reducing the environmental impact of computers and how to use the Internet to make business more energy efficient.

Title: ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future

Copyright © Tom Worthington, 2011

ISBN: 978-1-4478-1454-2. (Paperback and PDF published by Lulu)
ISBN: 978-1-4478-6164-5. (ePub eBook published by LuLu and available via Apple iTunes)
ISBN: 978-0-9806201-9-1. (Kindle eBook published by Tomw Communications Pty, Limited)

These notes are used for the courses:

  1. Green Technology Strategies: offered in the Computer Professional Education Program, Australian Computer Society (first run as "Green ICT Strategies" in February 2009),

  2. Green Information Technology Strategies (COMP7310), in the Graduate Studies Select program, Australian National University (first run July 2009), and

  3. Green ICT Strategies (ACS25): offered in the Postgraduate Program of Open Universities Australia from 2010,

A North American version of the course by Brian Stewart, Athabasca University (Canada) is also available: Green ICT Strategies (COMP 635).

The notes were first published in 2009 ("Green ICT") and updated 2010 ("Green Technology Strategies"). Students can download or print their own copy of the e-book from the course learning management system, which is likely to be more up to date.

The web version of ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future by Tom Worthington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License.

See: http://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability