Course Contents
1.0 What is Green IT? An Overview
1.1 Understand the overall need for an organisation to adopt a Green IT strategy.
1.2 Provide an understanding of the historic development of the Kyoto Protocol.
1.3 Understand the definition of 'Green IT'.
1.4 Identify & understand an organisation's external drivers and opportunities for greening
its IT,
1.5 Identify and understand the internal drivers, opportunities and benefits of adopting a
Green IT strategy for both an organisation and its IT service provider(s).
1.6 Understand the main goals of government legislation and voluntary initiatives pertaining to Green IT. Only international contexts will be examined but an overview must be given of legislation, standards and initiatives that is pertinent to a candidate's local region.
2.0 Internal assessment of your organisation: where are we now?
2.1 Gain an understanding of how to create a Green IT policy.
2.2 Know how to assess an organisation's business operations; in terms of their carbon
footprint
2.3 Understand the contribution that emissions from the use of IT are making to those
carbon footprints in terms of energy consumption and behaviours
2.4 Describe how to audit an organisation’s existing functions and processes.
2.5 Understand the importance and risks, issues and opportunities around improving efficiency.
2.6 Understand the concept of total systems lifecycle management that supports IT assets from manufacture to disposal and its carbon impact.
2.7 Understand how best to re-use, recycle and dispose of IT assets.
2.8 Developing a Green IT Action Plan.
3.0 Deployment of ICT for sustainability across your organisation's activities
3.1 Understand how to embed the use of ICT for reducing emissions from business
activities, in an IT Strategy for Sustainability.
3.2 Discuss the roles and responsibilities associated with Green IT and IT for sustainable operations.
3.3 Explain how to encompass Green IT and IT for sustainable operations in end-to-end
lifecycle costing, business cases and TCO
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