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    Green IT aims to reduce the environmental impact of computing through more efficient and sustainable IT practices, including data center virtualization and power management, replacing older equipment, and digital initiatives that reduce paper usage and travel. The document discusses India's Green IT initiatives through organizations like C-DAC and lists several Green IT practices adopted by companies, such as server consolidation, video conferencing, and paperless workflows. Benefits of Green IT include environmental stewardship, productivity gains, cost savings from lower power consumption and equipment management, and reduced paper and travel expenses.

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    Green IT aims to reduce the environmental impact of computing through more efficient and sustainable IT practices, including data center virtualization and power management, replacing older equipment, and digital initiatives that reduce paper usage and travel. The document discusses India's Green IT initiatives through organizations like C-DAC and lists several Green IT practices adopted by companies, such as server consolidation, video conferencing, and paperless workflows. Benefits of Green IT include environmental stewardship, productivity gains, cost savings from lower power consumption and equipment management, and reduced paper and travel expenses.

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    Green IT or IT sustainability is the study and practice of environmentally sustainable IT or

    computing. This can include "designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers,
    servers, and associated subsystems efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on
    the environment. Besides IT itself being green, it can support, assist, and leverage other
    environmental initiatives to achieve energy efficiency and reduce carbon footprint in every
    walk of life by offering innovative solutions. In addition to moving itself in a greener
    direction and leveraging other environmental initiatives, ICT could also help create green
    awareness by assisting in building communities, engaging groups and supporting education
    and green advocacy campaigns.

    DeitY has started the Green IT initiative by awarding a project for development of ICT
    Technologies for smart buildings with low carbon emissions to C-DAC Chennai and C-DAC
    Bangalore. A project to develop technologies for achieving power optimization in HPC
    systems has also been initiated at C-DAC Pune.

    Target Key Areas For Maximum Impact


    Though according to some estimates today IT contributes to around 2-3% of Global Carbon
    Emissions and we need to control that, IT has the potential and power to impact the
    remaining 97-98% as well. The critical element in this entire journey is the Green IT
    intervention strategy where everyone agrees on plan on areas where IT could influence the
    environment.

    Here are some Green IT Initiatives that we have taken or are underway at various
    organisation

     Green IT as a focus area in the IT Policy


     New, energy efficient datacenter with power management features
     Virtualization and server consolidation
     Use of TFTs in place of CRTs for displays
     Reduction of printers
     Video conferencing / Collaboration tools - to reduce travel
     Buying of energy certified equipment - replacing old inefficient equipment
     Creating Awareness in organisation
     Usage of e-learning to reduce trainee or trainer travel
     New IT initiatives to cut paper consumption such as;
    o Converting our paper based customer loyalty program to an online card based
    program
    o Cutting down on printing of cheques in a big way and going for electronic
    fund transfer
    o Digitization of workflows needing approvals
    o Using digital signatures and sending documents electronically to partners

    Benefits
    Implementing Green IT initiatives benefits not only the environment but the enterprise as
    well. Here are some positive outcomes that we saw after embarking on our Green IT mission:
     Focus on Green IT provided excellent means for opportunity to care for the society
    and environment
     For the employees, it gives a sense of satisfaction and ownership as they feel that they
    are also trying to contribute at their level in saving the environment
     Many initiatives also help to improve productivity in the organisation - e.g. video
    conferencing, workflow automation, customer loyalty program automation, electronic
    transfer of funds, digital signatures etc
     Green IT helps the IT team in day to day management - e.g. number of servers to be
    managed reduced as we used virtualization, or number of printers to be managed have
    reduced
     direct savings in power consumption and cost thereof - whether at datacenter or at
    user end it wnot just considering power consumption by equipment but also considering
    lower heat generation as the room requires reduced air-conditioning.
     Other savings include space, power and administrative cost savings at the datacenter,
    reduced paper consumption costs, etc.

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