IT Professionals Awareness: Green IT International Comparison Study

Abstract

Global warming and other environmental issues such as energy and resource constraint are becoming the world's major concerns and need to be solved. Information Technology (IT) is perceived as an enabler to resolve those problems and bring greater efficiency. This concept is known as Green IT which covers energy conservation by IT and energy conservation of IT. It is important to analyse the awareness of IT professionals about Green IT in order to measure whether they are ready to implement a Green IT strategy. Many countries have already applied Green IT initiatives to reduce carbon emissions. Awareness of Green IT has been measured in many countries, except Indonesia, which has committed to reduce its carbon emissions by 26% in 2020. Green IT should be one of the potential enablers to achieve that goal. This paper provides a preliminary insight into Green IT awareness among Indonesian IT professionals and shows a comparison between attitude and awareness levels of other countries. Some recommendations will be discussed in order to increase the awareness and reduce the inhibiting factors that influence it. The current findings suggest that although IT professionals in Indonesia have already some concerns about climate change and the power consumption of IT, there is still a lack of implementation and action dimensions.

Green information system integration for environmental performance in organizations

“…They also reduce energy consumed in the cooling of IT infrastructures by enhancing the energy competence of IT infrastructure, thereby lessening greenhouse gas emissions (Deng and Ji, 2015;Junior et al, 2018). Likewise, IT professionals and IT executives can digitize organizations documents and e-filing cabinets systems, by automating institutions daily activities, thus reducing office space, minimizing costs and energy required for book-keeping processing (Widjaja et al, 2011;Mani and Gunasekaran, 2018). Furthermore, radio frequency identification which uses electromagnetic field to automatically identify, track the gathering and handling of data could help generate green IS report Olaisen and Revang, 2017).…”

“…After which the data set was cleaned to treat missing values. However, the response is moderate but still appropriate to continue with this study based on lower responses from prior studies on green IS, where Loeser et al (2017) utilized a survey data from 118 IT executives, Wati and Koo (2012) utilized 100 usable survey responses as well as Widjaja et al (2011) where the authors used 105 survey responses. Accordingly, an overview of the demographic characteristics of the respondents and their organization is presented in Table I.…”

The Development of a Framework for Green Information Technology Implementation in South African Organisations

“…In many instances, renewable electricity production, from sources such as wind power and solar power is sometimes criticized for being inconstant or irregular despite the market for renewable energy technologies continuing to grow. This suggest that a fresh approach on IT and power is needed and organisations should be proactive to find ways to become more energy efficient in order to reduce carbon foot print (Widjaja, Mariani & Imam 2011). In this regard, IT managers should have ecological concerns at the top of their plan in purchasing of IT equipments and help their organisations to be more environmentally aware in their use of technology (Li 2017:20 -23).…”

“…As a result, the current energy consumption in data centres is contributing to annual increase of the GHG emissions. This suggest that making data centres more energy efficient can provide financial, environmental infrastructural benefits for organisations (Widjaja, Mariani & Imam 2011). The reason is because the world is reliant on data centres, hence the increase in power consumption.…”

Understanding Behavioural Intentions to Use Green ICT at Tertiary Level Education Institutions

“…),Rossetal. (2010),Widjaja(2011),Yoon(2018andChowandChen(2009).MeasurementsforenvironmentalorientationwereadaptedfromWangetal. (2015), ChenandTung(2014),JuandChung(2014)andWangetal.…”