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.
Next: Enabling ICT.
About the book: ICT Sustainability: Assessment and Strategies for a Low Carbon Future
Edition Notice
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 on strategies for reducing the environmental impact of computers and how to use the Internet to make business more energy efficient.
Copyright © Tom Worthington, 2018
Third edition.
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Previous edition, 2017:
ISBN: 9781326967949 (Hardback)
ISBN: 9781326958503 (Paperback)
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Editions of these notes have been used for the courses:
- ICT Sustainability (COMP7310), in the Graduate Studies Select program, Australian National University (first run July 2009), and
- Green ICT Strategies (COMP 635), Athabasca University (Canada). Adapted for North America by Brian Stewart.
- Green Technology Strategies: offered in the Computer Professional Education Program, Australian Computer Society (first run as "Green ICT Strategies" in February 2009),