| CONFERENCE |
| Home |
| Conference Committee |
| Call for Papers |
| Submission Details |
| Call
for Tutorials, Workshops & Panels |
|
Conference Tracks GreenIT / IS |
| Registration |
| Delegate Information |
| Previous Conferences |
| ACIS 2.0 |
| Contact Us |
| PROGRAM |
| Conference Program |
| Workshops |
| Doctoral Consortium |
| Keynote Speakers |
| Social Events |
| Awards |
| Proceedings |
| Sponsors & Exhibitors |
| VENUE |
| Accommodation |
| Conference Venue |
| AFFILIATED EVENTS |
| QualIT |
Green IT/IS .pdf
Track
Chairs
Associate Prof. Alem Molla,
RMIT University, Australia, alemayehu.molla@rmit.edu.au
Professor
Brian Corbitt,
RMIT University, Australia, brian.corbitt@rmit.edu.au
Dr.
Michael Lane,
University of Southern Queensland, Australia, Michael.Lane@usq.edu.au
Professor
Lutz M. Kolbe,
Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany, lkolbe@uni-goettingen.de
Mr.
Graeme Philipson,
Research Director, Connection Research, graemep@connectionresearch.com.au
Description
The role and contribution of information technology (IT) and information
systems (IS) in sustainable competitive advantage has been the preoccupation
of many IS researchers. The balance of the evidence suggests that IT
does indeed contribute, albeit indirectly, to sustainable competitive
advantage. The subject of sustainability, however, is broad and covers
social, community and ecological dimensions as well. Given the global
realisation about the long term effects of human and business activities
on the natural environment and the pace and magnitude of environmental
deterioration, businesses are under increasing pressure to engage in
ecologically sustainable practices. Indeed increasingly regulation and
corporate social responsibility will mandate environmentally sound practices.
In this context, the impact of IT/IS on and its role in ecological sustainability,
has emerged as one of the key IT management issues and an IS research
field. This portends three challenges for IT/IS management and research.
First, IT/IS managers and researchers are required to minimise IT related
emissions, inefficiency, waste and water. Second (and perhaps most importantly)
IT managers and researchers are expected to provide IT/IS solutions
that enable businesses to measure, monitor, report and reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions, waste and water within their core enterprise
and supply chain processes. Thirdly IT managers and researchers are
presented with opportunities to investigate and provide solutions for
how the innovative use of IT and IS can transform and reduce the environmental
impact of individuals, organisations and society and thus provide leadership
in sustainability.
The Green IT/IS track will explore the impact and role of IT in green and sustainability initiatives. Topic areas include but are not limited to:
-
Conceptualisation of Green IT/IS – Where is the “Green” and the “IT/IS” in Green IT
-
Theories and methods applied to Green IS
-
Green IT/IS Strategy
-
Adoption and Diffusion of Green IT/IS
-
End user Green IT/IS technologies and practices
-
Consumer awareness and response to green computing
-
Enterprise Green IT/IS technologies and practises
-
Supply chain Green IT/IS technologies and practices
-
Green IT/IS issues in developing economies
-
Lifecycle assessment of e-billing, videoconferencing, teleworking
-
The ecological value of virtualisation, cloud computing, software as a service
-
Green data centres
-
E-waste
-
Lifecycle analyses of IS resources
-
Technology recycling
-
Incentive systems and processes for efficient Green IS resource management
-
Green IT/IS and organisational learning
-
The institutional environment (standards, regulations, norms) for Green IT/IS
-
Standards and key performance indicators to measure the performance of Green IS resource management
Associate Editors
-
Prof. Richard Watson , University of Georgia, USA, rwatson@terry.uga.edu
-
Prof. Hepu Deng, RMIT University, Australia, hepu.deng@rmit.edu.au
-
Assoc. Prof. Helen Hassan, University of Wollongong, Australia, hasan@uow.edu.au
-
Prof. San Murugesan, BRITE Professional Services and University of Western Sydney, san1@internode.net
-
Dr. Ezandu Awaria, London Metropolitan Business School, UK, e.ariwa@londonmet.ac.uk
-
Dr Vanessa Cooper, RMIT University, Australia, vanessa.cooper@rmit.edu.au
-
Prof. Dr. Ruediger Zarnekow, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany, ruediger.zarnekow@tu-berlin.de
-
Prof. Dr. Jorge Marx-Gómez, University of Oldenburg, Germany, jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de
-
Prof. Dr. Frank Teuteberg, University of Osnabrueck, Germany, frank.teuteberg@uni-osnabrueck.de
-
Prof. Dr. Norbert Mundorf, University of Rhode Island, USA, mundorf@uri.edu
-
Nils-Holger Schmidt, University of Goettingen, Germany, nschmid@uni-goettingen.de
-
Koray Erek, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany, koray.erek@tu-berlin.de
Selected papers from the track will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Green Computing and International Journal of Sustainable society