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The cost of energy is the top reason for companies to make a move to Green Organization: The energy consumed by data centers had more than doubled over five year period Over 40% of the cost associated with the data centers are attributed to powering and cooling computer systems The awareness of Green IT among the IT professionals would save energy and the environment. This awareness can be simple or complex and include: Turning off computer at the end of the day Purchasing energy efficient office equipment Promoting virtual meetings and telecommuting Recycling paper products Converting to a Paperless office Properly disposing of obsolete computer equipments Server Consolidation
Creating more awareness among the IT Professional would save the world and benefit business. 2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Ben N Kuo and Geoffrey N Dick (2009) had found the factors that would account for the differentiation of Green IT organization among others. A survey done among the IT professionals in Australia revealed that there are various areas where the awareness and action has to improve greening the organization (Alemayehu Molla, Vanessa Cooper, Hepu Deng, Stasys Lukaitis, 2009). An insight on the maturity and diffusion of Green IT among the IT professional in Australia, New Zealand and USA gave a comparative report (Alemayehu Molla, Siddhi Pittayachawan and Brian Corbitt, 2009). Info-Tech Research group has reported based on their survey that North America under performs in the Green IT awareness and action. 3.1 PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
The objective of this project is to find the awareness of Green Organization among the IT professionals in Chennai, India 2
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SECONDARY OBJECTIVES To find what extent are IT professionals are concerned about climate change what are the perceptions of IT professionals in terms of ITs contribution to environmental footprint What are some of the processes IT professionals follow to increase their awareness of Green IT To what extent they are taking actions towards Green IT in their professional lives how do they perceive their working environments preparedness for Green IT METHODOLOGY : : : : : : : Descriptive Approach IT professionals in Chennai (Convenience sample) Primary Data Questionnaire Likert Scale 100 Use of Parametric and non-parametric tests.
Type of Project Target Respondents Data Type Data Collection Method Measurement Scale Sample Size Proposed Analysis (Statistical Tools) and Interpretation methodologies 5. WORK DONE SO FAR Guide Identified Project proposal approved Literature Review completed
Started designing the questionnaire Identified the list of IT professional to whom the questionnaire need to be worked out
6 WORK TO BE DONE
Target Date Tasks Complete the Questionnaire (28/5/2010) Get the questionnaire approved from the guide (9/6/2010) Circulate the questionnaire and get it completed by the IT (21/6/2010)
professionals from various organizations in Chennai Tabulate the data from the completed questionnaire Statistically analyse the data and demonstrate it with statistical tools Draw a conclusion Prepare the Project Report 7 LIMITATIONS 3
The project is limited to IT professionals in Chennai. The project result is purely based on the primary data collected using Questionnaire. EXPECTED DELIVERABLES A report on the awareness among the IT professionals in Chennai on Green
Organization REFERENCES 1. Hart, S. L. (1997). Beyond Greening: Strategies for a sustainable world. Harvard
Business Review, vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 58-68.
3. Molla, A. (2008), GITAM: A Model for the Adoption of Green IT, 19th Australasian
Conference on Information Systems Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-5 December
4. Alemayehu Molla, Vanessa Cooper, Hepu Deng, Stasys Lukaitis (2009) - A Preliminary
Report on Green IT Attitude and Actions among Australian IT Professionals, , Green IT Working Paper Series
6. Ben N Kuo, Geoffrey N Dick (2009) The Greening Of Organisational IT: What Makes
A Difference?, Australasian Journal of Information Systems Volume 16 Number 2 2009
7. Alemayehu Molla, Vanessa A Cooper, Siddhi Pittayachawan (2009) IT And EcoSustainability: Developing And Validating A Green IT Readiness Model
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