This chapter examines the level of awareness that organizations in India have of the concepts, strengths and benefits of sustainability, green IT and cloud computing. Very few research papers have examined the sustainability, green IT awareness and cloud computing issues in India, and it has become...
GreenComputing: Should It Be Photonics or Spintronics for Quantum Computers? Xavier Mattam xaviermattam@hotmail.com Abstract - Quantum Computers are widely acclaimed as the future computers. There is so muchresearchbeing done in this field of Quantum Computers that one would rightly feel that the ...
Environmental Footprinting in the IT-for-Green Project - A CEMIS Use Case This paper presents functionality and design elements of a Corporate Environmental Management Information System (CEMIS) in the project "IT-for-Green: Next... A Solsbach,B Rapp,F Teuteberg,... - Conference on Environment...
Even so, it seems that the government is set on a more joined-up strategy between QR funding and research council grants. “If there were separate bodies we would expect much closer strategic and operational co-operation between them,” the paper says. But it also acknowledges that without pr...
The conceptual framework adopted in this paper draws on the idea of collaborative innovation (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 2000; Ghisetti et al., 2015; Fabrizi et al., 2018) and relates it to green international competitiveness in the framework of the technology gap approach to trade (Soete, 1981...
Purpose - To analyze the beliefs and attitudinal factors that affect the private sphere pro-environmental behavior of Information Technology (IT) professionals in using personal computers. Design/methodology/approach - A research framework that draws from the Belief-Action-Outcome (BAO) framework and th...
The information technology (IT) industry has a vital role to play in abating the threat of climate change and global warming. Green IT is defined for the purpose of this paper, as a specific set of initiatives that IT companies are taking to optimise their resource-utilisation, with the aim...
it also produces highly radioactive waste that must be stored for thousands of years. Some activists have argued that nuclear power can never be safely generated, and a number of high-profile accidents—notably at Chernobyl and Fukushima—have highlighted these concerns. However, it should also be...
The paper aims to shed light on innovation dynamics in this emerging sector by investigating the patterns of innovation in the green ICT domains using granted EPO patent data from 1986 to 2006. By means of a network analysis, it identifies existing green ICT domains and examines the ...
We also concluded that regulations and policies coupled with heightened awareness and environmental responsibility on the part of the company can encourage Green IT innovation. This paper also provides a discussion of the results and of the contributions made by this research. 展开 ...