Green it uob

By

Jaflah Al-Ammary

College of IT

University of Bahrain

Green IT at the

University of Bahrain Initiatives,

Readiness and Capability

Maturity Level

Research Objectives

1- Investigative the current situation

regarding Green IT at the University of

Bahrain by identifying the following:

a- The Green IT initiatives

b- The Green IT Readiness

c- The Green IT Capability Maturity level

2- Develop a Green IT adoption model for


Introduction

In a world of continuity innovation and highly dependency on new technology, Information Technology (IT) is considered as an essential component in most of the organizations.

The increasing use of IT equipment and their short life span have caused two major problems: Energy consumption and E-Waste.

The total life cycle of IT products and data centers' power usage make the energy of IT significantly high.

The growing of E-Waste poses serious health and environmental hazard because electronic products contain toxic materials (Hanne, 2011).

Introduction Nowadays Green IT concerns have grown

beyond being just a trend, as most of the organization needs to achieve considerable reductions of carbon emissions and cost savings (Widjaja, et al., 2011).

The time is coming for industries, agencies and individuals to consider Green IT seriously and spread awareness across the world.

Therefore, Green IT appears to be the right element to connect both cooperate innovation and environment (Widjaja, et al., 2011).

• Many initiatives have been taken by governments and IT industries in many developed countries to promote Green IT practices.

• Taking advantage from existing initiatives will offer economical, environmental and social benefits to the developing countries (Hanne, 2011).

Introduction

Introduction

University of Bahrain believe that environmental or

green initiatives are the key to ensure the

achievement of the goal of advancing

environmental sustainability.

Other benefits University of Bahrain can obtain by

adopting Green IT include:

• Gaining a competitive advantage by

differentiating themselves as a Green-certify

organization

• Improving their efficiency and potentially

lowering operating costs

• Providing a cleaner and healthier work

environment

• University of Bahrain has some green initiatives like their intensive researches in

• Alternative fuels

• Clean energy

• Wind engineering

• Bio- Fuel

• In addition, there are some Green IT initiatives in place aims to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Introduction

Introduction

It is encouraging that University of Bahrain has

green initiatives in place but it is not surprising that

taking the next step and introducing green

technology, is lagging behind.

In fact like other non-profit organizations,

University of Bahrain think that those initiatives are

more expensive to implement (at least in the short

term) and therefore are reluctant to do so

particularly in tight financial circumstances.

Introduction

University of Bahrain like other organizations

need to act now, as for a large organization in the

developed countries it can take up to 18 months

to green the IT department and data centre.

Therefore, there is a need for coordinated efforts

between the University of Bahrain, government,

and industry to bring an overall solution to

environmental issues related to the use of IT.

Indicators for Green IT

Initiatives at University of

Bahrain

• Info-Tech (2007) have identified 11 technology and

initiatives as indicators of green IT. These include:

• Equipment recycling,

• Server consolidation and virtualization

• Print optimization

• Rightsizing IT equipment

• Budget allocation for Green IT projects

• Carbon offsetting

• Data center

• Liquid cooling for IT equipment,

• DC powered IT equipment,

• Data centre airflow management,

• Optimizing data centre energy efficiency

• Airside/waterside economizer

Green IT initiatives

The Connection Research RMIT Green IT

Framework

The Connection Research

RMIT Green IT Framework

• This Framework is used by many organizations to

categorize many aspects of Green ICT.

• It takes a holistic view of Green ICT and sustainability,

across the enterprise, and then drills into individual

technologies and business best Practices.

• It contains four vertical components, or “pillars”, each of

which is broken further into specific areas of Green

ICT; and five horizontal components, or “actions” which

describe separate approaches to the verticals

(Philipson, 2010)

Equipment lifecycle Recycle and reuse

Trash them Sell themCovert them into

artKeep them in

storage

% of staff 66% 0% 10% 24%

66%

0%

10%

24%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

The fate of the devices of members of CIT

Equipment lifecycle Disposal

At the University of Bahrain equipments like PCs,

printers, data show and etc., needs to be physically

disposed of. The following are different ways of

electronic equipment disposal:

- Selling them to the UOB members or students

- Donate them to some of the none-profit

organizations and societies

- Selling then as spare parts

- Selling them via tenders to some E-agents

Number of devices used by CIT members

LED

LCD

CRT

Deskjet Printer

Laser Printer

Desktop computer

Laptop

Smart phone

Old phone

Chargers

Ipad2-similar devices

10

42

0

37

13

46

62

93

73

135

5

End-user computing Desktop

Mobile Computing at CIT (students and staff)

Mobile computing

WEB SITE BLACKBORD

WEB CT MOODLE IPAD IPHONE

35%

65%

15%

20%

12% 10%

End-user computing

Electronic devices at the CIT

End-user computing Departmental computing

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

No. of PCs in LABs

No. of servers

Deskjet

Laser

No. of Faxes

Printing and energy consumption

• Most of the CIT members are printing in both

sides of the paper.

• Centralization of the printing (printing centers)

this will reduce the energy consumption of at

least 33 printers from each department and at

least 924 printers from the colleges

End-user computing

ICT as a Low Carbon Enabler Outsourcing and clod computing

Most of the copiers and the heavy duty printers

are outsourced at the University of Bahrain

Most of the students and some academic staff at

the CIT and College of Business are using Cloud

Computing in their learning and teaching process

(Dropbox, Google doc and calendar, WIKI, Ever-

note and so on)

Green IT Readiness at


• Attitude and awareness

• Policy

• Practice

• Technology

• Governance

Green IT Readiness measures how well a

company has and can integrate green into

their IT and utilize it (Molla, Cooper, &

Pittayachawan, 2009).

• Green IT Attitude is “an organization’s IT human infrastructure’s emotion towards climate change and

eco-sustainability”

• Green IT Policy “encompasses the frameworks an organization puts in place to apply environmental

criteria in its IT related activities”

• Green IT Practice “pertains to the actual application and realization of eco-sustainability considerations in

IT infrastructure sourcing, operation and disposal”

Green IT Readiness

Green IT Technology “refers to technologies and

information systems for

(a) reducing the energy consumption of powering and

cooling corporate IT assets (such as data centers)

(b) optimizing the energy efficiency of the IT technical

Infrastructure

(c) reducing IT induced greenhouse gas emissions

(d) supplanting carbon emitting business practices

(e) analyzing a business’s total environmental

footprint”

Green IT Governance is “the operating model that

defines the administration of Green IT initiatives

and is closely related to the policy construct”

Green IT Readiness

Attitude and awareness

CIT members awareness toward

Green IT

0 10 20 30 40 50

I read news and articles about Green IT issue

I am willing to learn/ gather more information about Green IT issue

I have purposely attempted to attend a seminar or workshop onGreen IT

I believe that IT professionals can play significant roles in helping tackle business’s carbon emission

IT professionals should be concerned with controlling the powerconsumption

I believe that tackling the carbon emission of IT systems should bea core part of a green business strategy

I prefer to print on both side of paper

I turn off my computer when I’m not using it

UOB/ IT college has executed Green IT initiatives

UOB has a policy that states staff should turn off computers whenthey are not in use

UOB has investigated ways to reduce IT’s power consumption in its departments

I’m very concerned about reducing IT’s power consumption in UOB

Dis-agree

Neutral

Agree

The most appropriate disposal methods

for the obsolete electronic devices

32%

64%

10%

2%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

REUSE

RECYCLE

Exclusion

Other

Practice

Practice

How the ICT members are leaving

their PCs after the working hours

14%

14%

68%

4%

Chart Title

Standby Mode Sleep Mode

Shutdon others (leave it opend)

How often the academic staff at

college of IT are asking for PC

maintenance

32%

8%

28%

18%

10%

Never Asked Every Mouth EverySemester

Every Year More thanone year

Green ICT Capability

Maturity level for University

of Bahrain

Green ICT Capability Maturity Model source (Connection Research, 2010)

Connection Research determines the maturity levels through

the administration of a survey which asks questions about

each aspect of Green ICT, as identified in the Framework.

Questions are asked about actions (attitude, policy, practice,

technology, metrics), for each of the four pillars.

Each question is constructed to rate that factor on a CMM

scale from 0 to 5, then all relevant questions in each of the

four pillars are aggregated and weighted to deliver a score

(out of 100) for that pillar.

Green ICT Capability Maturity Model source (Connection Research, 2010)

Green IT Adoption Model for


Green IT Readiness

Drivers of Green IT

Behavior Intention to

adopt Green IT

Green IT adoption

Technological context

Organizational context

Environmental Context

Model of adopting

Green IT at UOB

The green IT drivers (Molla, 2008)

• Regulatory drivers

• Ethical drivers

• Economical drivers

Green IT Drivers

Overview of drivers of green IS initiatives (Source (Islam, 2012))

Drivers for uptake of Green IT (Mazenier,

2007):

Reduce power consumption - Lower costs

Lower carbon emissions and environmental

impact (e.g. recycling)

Improved systems performance and

utilization

Green IT Drivers

Green IT Readiness

Attitude

Policies

Practices

Technical

Governance

Regulatory/legislations

Ethical motives

Economics opportunities

Stakeholders pressure

Green IT Readiness

Drivers of Green IT

Behavior Intention to adopt Green IT

Green IT adoption

Technological context

Organizational context

Environmental Context

Model of adopting

Green IT at UOB

Q & A