Title: ICT Sustainability

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 graduate course by Tom Worthington, on strategies for reducing the environmental impact of computers and how to use the Internet to make business more energy efficient.

This course had been run as:

1. Green Technology Strategies: offered in the Computer Professional Education Program, Australian Computer Society (first run as "Green ICT Strategies" in February 2009),
2. ICT Sustainability (COMP7310), in the Graduate Studies Select program, Australian National University (first run July 2009), and.
3. Green ICT Strategies (COMP 635), Athabasca University (Canada). Adapted for North America by Brian Stewart.

The course notes are also published as a Paperback and eBook:"ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future (Worthington, 2017).

Course materials available free on-line, under at Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license at http://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability/

Section 1
  News forum
  Chatroom
  Course Notes: ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future
  Assignment 1a due week 4: Describe an organization and how you will study its ICT sustainability
  Assignment 1b due week 6: Estimate the Carbon Footprint
  Assignment 2a due week 10: Approach to Reducing Carbon Footprint
  Assignment 2b due week 12: Reduce the Carbon Footprint
  Tasks Every Week: Read, Answer and Discuss
  Sample Quiz
Section 2
  Week 1 Discussion Forum
  Week 1 Quiz
Section 3
  Week 2 Discussion Forum
  Week 2 Quiz
Section 4
  Week 3 Discussion Forum
  Reminder: Assignment 1a due next week.
  Week 3 Quiz
Section 5
  Week 4 Discussion Forum
  Reminder: Assignment 1a due this week.
  Week 4 Quiz
Section 6
  Week 5 Discussion Forum
  Reminder: Assignment 1b due next week.
  Week 5 Quiz
Section 7
  Week 6 Discussion Forum
  Reminder: Assignment 1b due this week.
  Reminder: Last day to drop course without financia...
  Week 6 Quiz
Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
  Week 7 Discussion Forum
  Week 7 Quiz
Section 11
  Week 8 Discussion Forum
  Week 8 Quiz
Section 12
  Week 9 Discussion Forum
  Reminder: Assignment 2a due next week.
  Reminder: Deadline to drop course without failure ...
  Week 9 Quiz
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Section 13
  Week 10 Discussion Forum
  Reminder: Assignment 2a due this week.
  Week 10 Quiz
Section 14
  Week 11 Discussion Forum
  Reminder: Assignment 2b due next week.
  Week 11 Quiz
Section 15
  Week 12 Discussion Forum
  Reminder: Assignment 2b due this week.
  Reminder: Deadline to drop course with failure (W...
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  Week 12 Quiz