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ABSTRACT
Green information technologies and systems IT/IS
are initiatives, strategies and programs that directly
or indirectly address environmental sustainability in
organizations. While practitioners have begun to
focus on Green IT/IS, however there is few research
in this area. The aim of this paper is to develop a
framework to assist practitioners and organisations
in the adoption of green IT/IS practices in IT
Governance. Existing green IT/IS literature were
reviewed. Hence the paper concern research that
addresses Green IT, Green IS and environmental
sustainability mainly in domain of information
technology governance (IT Governance). Findings
from this paper show the components and attributes
that are to be considered in implementing Green
IT/IS in IT Governance. Thus the framework can
also be used as a guide for future research in this
domain.
KEYWORDS
Green
IS,
Green
IT,
Sustainability, IT Governance.
Environment,
1 INTRODUCTION
Information Systems (IS) and Information
Technology (IT) has changed human behavior
in the last few years, and therefore has the
potential to support the adoption and transition
to a sustainable world at large. Therefore, the
role and contribution of IT and IS for
sustainability has become the interest of firms,
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2.3 Benefits
Governance
of
Green
IT/IS
in
IT
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Travel
reduction
(Video
conferencing &
collaboration)
Technological
advancement
Use resources
more efficiently
sustainable
development)
Social benefits
Simple
and
reliable
IT
infrastructure
Encourages efficient
utilization of natural
resources
Provide rapid and
secure access to
required data
Emotional risk
minimizing
Recycle end-of-life
equipment
Testing
application
software
on
multiple
platforms is easy
Behavioral risk
minimizing
Increase ease of
systems and solutions
management
Free-up
components
2.
3.
budget
4.
5.
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3 METHODOLOGY
This paper utilizes secondary data collection by
reviewing existing literatures on Green IT/IS
research practice. The review is based mainly
on existing conceptual/research model or
frameworks in Green IT/IS practice. Hence this
paper is concerned with the study of Green
IT/IS use from the practice and theoretical
perspective. This paper strives to understand
how Green IT/IS practices surface and become
recurrent in IT Governance and tackles the
research question of how do Green IT/IS
practices emerge to support IT Governance
sustainability practices?
3.1 Eco-Sustainability and Green IT/IS
Implementation in IT Governance
Eco-sustainability is the capability of one or
more object or beings, either independently or
mutually, to exist either unaffected or in
changed forms for lengthy time frame. Eco-
Table 2. Green
Governance
Green IT/IS
Implementation
Development/
Sourcing
IT/IS
Implementation
in
IT
Description
This phase involves monitoring
the impacts of IT/IS that directly
results from activities involved in
the usage of IT infrastructures,
such as electrical energy that is
necessary
to
power
the
workstations of practitioners
offices, electrical energy and
natural resources that are
necessary to run IT infrastructure
such as networking devices,
servers, and storages. This phase
also addresses energy for
transportation purposes like long
distance business trips for
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meetings
with
stack
holders/experts and even the
staffs daily way to work. Nearly
all these impacts can be
addressed
by
adopting
teleworking and teleconferencing.
Deployment
Mainly
accounts
for
environmental
impacts
that
results from the usage of
developed IT services. It includes
printed manuals, plastic or data
medium, such as CD/DVD, USB
memory stick. Furthermore, if the
software service/product are
presented as a download, then its
download
size
should
be
considered, as well as the
electrical energy and material
resources that are necessary to
run the IT infrastructure.
Usage
Integration for
Eco
Sustainability
4 PROPOSED FRAMEWORK
Green IT/IS adoption is the practice by which a
green ITIS is communicated through certain
channels over time among the practitioners in
an organization. Green IT/IS hold more
potential for addressing environmental issues in
organizations. The proposed framework
provides a guide for researchers; academia and
practitioner interested in Green IT/IS in IT
Governance. The framework can be utilized as
a road map to build the beliefs and norms of
practitioners, stack holders and end users about
the environment which is essential to
implement and adopt a sustainable practice of
IT Governance in their organisations.
The five components in the framework
influence the adoption of Green IT/IS in
organisations. The proposed framework for
green IT/IS adoption and implementation
considers the attributes that influence the
components of Green IT/IS, which are shown in
figure 2 as Motivating Forces, Business
Strategies,
Technologies
&
Systems,
Organization and Employee in context to the
practice of Green IT/IS in organizations.
Thus the proposed framework could assist
practitioners in having a positive impact, with
the potential to reduce global production. The
framework can assist decision makers in IT
Governance in reducing energy consumption
and waste associated with the use of hardware,
software and tends to have a direct and positive
impact.
Hence, the framework can support IT
Governance practitioners in reducing energy
consumption
and
pollution.
Therefore
practitioner can utilize the framework as a
guide in developing IT products and services to
improve energy efficiency and reduce waste in
their organisations.
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Figure 2. A Framework for the adoption and implementation of Green IT/IS in IT Governance
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5 DISCUSSIONS
IT Governance involves rules and regulation set
by management in organisation to ensure the
proper usage of IT infrastructure [6]. Green
IT/IS in IT governance categorizes the decision
rights and responsibility agenda to adopt
environmentally desirable behavior in the
development/sourcing, development, usage, and
disposal of IT. IT/IS can provide treatment to
environmental issues. Information system aids
the reuse of waste and energy.
Green IT/IS adoption in IT Governance can be
analyzed by measuring the extent to which the
enterprise implement pollution prevention to
reduce overall emissions, waste and hazardous
materials,
inspection
services
improve
environmental friendliness in their development
process. The use of Green IT/IS by
organizations has been extremely slow.
However, Green IT/IS implementation has the
potential to reduce energy consumption in a
number of ways. It can motivate practitioners in
organization to focus on the recycling of waste
or the utilization of collaboration tools,
telecommuting, and video conferencing to
reduce travel costs [5]. Therefore Green IT/ S
support services, systems, products, processes
using less energy, reuse and recycle materials,
reduce waste, water, and pollution, conserve
natural resources, and ultimately achieve
environmental sustainability.
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