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                    Seminar Announcement

              School of Computer Science, CECS
             The Australian National University
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Date:  Thursday, 10 September 2009
Time:  4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]


Speaker: Idris Sulaiman, School of Computer Science, ANU

Title:  Comparative Green IT Diffusion in Leading Universities

Abstract:
   Green IT is as much about the financial motivation as it is
   about reducing the environmental impact of operating IT
   and the business.  This paper provides a preliminary insight
   on the status of the comparative diffusion in terms of Green
   IT maturity (in terms of a quantifiable Green IT Readiness
   Index) as well as some major driving and hindering factors.
   So when asking yourself whether Green IT has financial merits,
   the short answer is yes - but corporate and IT leadership
   must understand why and how this is achieved to invest time,
   technology, training and capital wisely.  Overall, the
   findings indicate that universities are developing responses
   to these drivers - some are taking more effective action (that
   can lead to a higher level of Green IT maturity) than others.

Biography:
   Idris is an economist with extensive international research
   and organisational experience working on projects dealing
   with energy efficiency and economic development issues in
   ICT.  He has worked with the Australia's Department of
   Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) as economist
   and project manager implementing minimum energy efficiency
   standards and labelling in ICT equipment as well as authoring
   white papers on energy efficiency challenges facing ICT and
   computing equipment and data centres.

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars09/dept20090910




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