Issues to do with environmental management and sustainability have continued to generate great in... more Issues to do with environmental management and sustainability have continued to generate great interest in the last two
decades. The world seems more united than ever before in trying to find ways to combat this global phenomenon whose impact has had tragic results especially in developing economies. Companies and organizations have been urged to develop innovative ways of doing business without causing any arm to the environment; with that, a number of approaches have been developed including green energy, green construction, green supply chain, green IT, green IS and many others that aim to ensure that every aspect of the organization is analyzed to reduce their carbon footprint. The field of computing has been discussed under green Information Systems (Green IS) and Green Information Technology (Green IT).Green IT aims to reduce the Information Technology (IT) environmental footprint. Green IS tries to look for innovative ways in which organizations can apply Information Systems (IS) to manage their environmental footprint. Research on environmental protection and global green house gas (GHG) emissions seem to concentrate on large companies and developed countries with the notion that developing countries and small and medium organizations contribute less in carbon emissions mostly because of the limited industrial activities in these countries and in the case of computing, the limited number of computers in these firms. The purpose of this research is to highlight the various mechanisms that an organization in developing countries usually small and
medium businesses can apply on its internal core functions to reduce its carbon footprint. To achieve this, we first carry out a
review of both practitioner and academic literature to justify the scope and focus of the research. We then offer highlights on
development of a corporate level green IS strategy and finally we describe each of the internal practices that small and medium size organizations should focus on to reduce their carbon footprint and validating each of them using opinions from past research.
Keywords: green IS, green IT, footprint, sustainability
Issues to do with environmental management and sustainability have continued to generate great in... more Issues to do with environmental management and sustainability have continued to generate great interest in the last two
decades. The world seems more united than ever before in trying to find ways to combat this global phenomenon whose impact has had tragic results especially in developing economies. Companies and organizations have been urged to develop innovative ways of doing business without causing any arm to the environment; with that, a number of approaches have been developed including green energy, green construction, green supply chain, green IT, green IS and many others that aim to ensure that every aspect of the organization is analyzed to reduce their carbon footprint. The field of computing has been discussed under green Information Systems (Green IS) and Green Information Technology (Green IT).Green IT aims to reduce the Information Technology (IT) environmental footprint. Green IS tries to look for innovative ways in which organizations can apply Information Systems (IS) to manage their environmental footprint. Research on environmental protection and global green house gas (GHG) emissions seem to concentrate on large companies and developed countries with the notion that developing countries and small and medium organizations contribute less in carbon emissions mostly because of the limited industrial activities in these countries and in the case of computing, the limited number of computers in these firms. The purpose of this research is to highlight the various mechanisms that an organization in developing countries usually small and
medium businesses can apply on its internal core functions to reduce its carbon footprint. To achieve this, we first carry out a
review of both practitioner and academic literature to justify the scope and focus of the research. We then offer highlights on
development of a corporate level green IS strategy and finally we describe each of the internal practices that small and medium size organizations should focus on to reduce their carbon footprint and validating each of them using opinions from past research.
Keywords: green IS, green IT, footprint, sustainability
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decades. The world seems more united than ever before in trying to find ways to combat this global phenomenon whose impact has had tragic results especially in developing economies. Companies and organizations have been urged to develop innovative ways of doing business without causing any arm to the environment; with that, a number of approaches have been developed including green energy, green construction, green supply chain, green IT, green IS and many others that aim to ensure that every aspect of the organization is analyzed to reduce their carbon footprint. The field of computing has been discussed under green Information Systems (Green IS) and Green Information Technology (Green IT).Green IT aims to reduce the Information Technology (IT) environmental footprint. Green IS tries to look for innovative ways in which organizations can apply Information Systems (IS) to manage their environmental footprint. Research on environmental protection and global green house gas (GHG) emissions seem to concentrate on large companies and developed countries with the notion that developing countries and small and medium organizations contribute less in carbon emissions mostly because of the limited industrial activities in these countries and in the case of computing, the limited number of computers in these firms. The purpose of this research is to highlight the various mechanisms that an organization in developing countries usually small and
medium businesses can apply on its internal core functions to reduce its carbon footprint. To achieve this, we first carry out a
review of both practitioner and academic literature to justify the scope and focus of the research. We then offer highlights on
development of a corporate level green IS strategy and finally we describe each of the internal practices that small and medium size organizations should focus on to reduce their carbon footprint and validating each of them using opinions from past research.
Keywords: green IS, green IT, footprint, sustainability
decades. The world seems more united than ever before in trying to find ways to combat this global phenomenon whose impact has had tragic results especially in developing economies. Companies and organizations have been urged to develop innovative ways of doing business without causing any arm to the environment; with that, a number of approaches have been developed including green energy, green construction, green supply chain, green IT, green IS and many others that aim to ensure that every aspect of the organization is analyzed to reduce their carbon footprint. The field of computing has been discussed under green Information Systems (Green IS) and Green Information Technology (Green IT).Green IT aims to reduce the Information Technology (IT) environmental footprint. Green IS tries to look for innovative ways in which organizations can apply Information Systems (IS) to manage their environmental footprint. Research on environmental protection and global green house gas (GHG) emissions seem to concentrate on large companies and developed countries with the notion that developing countries and small and medium organizations contribute less in carbon emissions mostly because of the limited industrial activities in these countries and in the case of computing, the limited number of computers in these firms. The purpose of this research is to highlight the various mechanisms that an organization in developing countries usually small and
medium businesses can apply on its internal core functions to reduce its carbon footprint. To achieve this, we first carry out a
review of both practitioner and academic literature to justify the scope and focus of the research. We then offer highlights on
development of a corporate level green IS strategy and finally we describe each of the internal practices that small and medium size organizations should focus on to reduce their carbon footprint and validating each of them using opinions from past research.
Keywords: green IS, green IT, footprint, sustainability