The Green Practitioner: A decision-making tool for green ICT

Abstract

Abstract-The environmental impact of ICT represents an increasing concern for modern society. Despite that, we still witness a lack of awareness from the ICT industry regarding their carbon footprint. In particular, practitioners lack knowledge and tools to perform informed decision-making in the area of Green ICT. Moreover, best practices for Green ICT are usually conceived and applied in-house. This prevents them from being generalized and shared with the community. In this paper, we present a web-based tool that tackles both needs: on one hand, the tool enables practitioners (i.e. agents) to browse a number of Green ICT solutions and calculate their estimated impact if applied to their organization, through customized parameters. On the other hand, the tool also provides a creation interface for contributors who want to generalize and share their own Green ICT practices. In addition, we foresee that the data generated by the usage of the tool will provide useful insights and trends regarding the adoption of Green ICT and its effectiveness on reducing CO2 emissions.

Energy Efficiency and Power Measurements: an Industrial Survey

“…In order to ease the adoption of Green IT best practices, we developed a number of tools [15], [21] that provide insights and estimations on their economic and environmental impacts. We also have an online library of such practices 4 that can be used as a knowledge base for practitioners who want to have a concrete overview of actionable strategies for reducing their carbon footprint -and energy bill.…”

A collaborative agent based green IS practice assessment tool for environmental sustainability attainment in enterprise data centers

“…But, there is need for an approach to aid decision making of IT practitioners in assessing their current green IS practice autonomously toward attaining sustainability (Gu et al , 201). Besides, the approach is required to capturing, retaining and reusing past knowledge for improving green IS practice in data centers (Lundfall et al , 2015).…”

“…Correspondingly, Table I reveals that few studies such as Lundfall et al (2015), Hankel and Lago (2016) and OGCIO (2016) only provided suggestion on how enterprise can improve their currently green practice, whereas Odeh and Meszaros (2012), Park et al (2012), Foogooa and Dookhitram (2014), Muladi and Surendro, 2014), Hankel et al (2016) and Hankel and Lago (2016) manually assess and rate green IT practice. Respectively, there is need to autonomously assess green IS practice and also provide best practice recommendations to provide a set of guidelines for determining each green IS process (see Section 2.3) to assist IT practitioners in reviewing, managing and improving their environmental performance.…”

“…According to Huang (2009) and Azlin et al (2016), a few enterprise data centers claim they implement green IS practices by only implementing recycling operation and ignoring other green IS practices. This is mainly due to the prospect that recycling concept is synonymous with environmental friendly practices (Lundfall et al , 2015). Similarly, IT practitioners in enterprise data centers utilize manual paper self-assessment checklists questionnaire (Muladi and Surendro, 2014).…”

A Resource Utilization Score for Software Energy Consumption

“…Green performance indicators [22] can, among others, be used to monitor infrastructure facilities and are of interest when EC needs to be considered on datacenter level. In their work, Lundfall et al [23] present a tool to make the economic impact of green practices explicit with the purpose of justifying green practices on management level. The relation with green software is apparent though as the figures often still stem from low level computing and application measurements.…”