Adoption of Green IT in the university environment: systematic review of sustainability practices in educational institutions

• Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Marcos Roque da
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: AtoZ (Curitiba)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/atoz/article/view/74598
• topic: Ciência da Computação; Interdisciplinar; Green Computing; Green University; Sustainable University; Sustainable Practices; IT Management; Computation science; Interdisciplinary.; Computação verde; Universidade verde; Universidade sustentável; Práticas sustentáveis; Gerenciamento de Tecnologia da Informação.

Introduction: Universities are concerned and aware about climate change and sustainable issues in Information Technology (IT). Green IT is the practice of designing, manufacturing, using and disposing of computers, servers and associated equipment with minimal or no impact to the environment. In order to investigate how university handles this, the objective of this article is to research   implementation of Green IT study cases in the university environment and to report the practices and results of this application. Method: To develop this work a systematic review was carried out, a research protocol was defined based on the last 10 years of scientific publications in the ACM, IEEE and Scopus periodical databases. The process was done in two stages comprehending the search in journals databases and the systematic analysis of the articles chosen that were related to the research topic. The findings of this study are case studies, on how to start a project, technologies, difficulties and benefits of the implementation. The research was limited to the qualitative documental analysis of scientific articles. Results: As a result, nine articles were identified which reported application practices  of Green IT in universities, including studies from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Conclusions: The study contributed with an overview about IT sustainability practices and helped to understand the universe of Green IT applied to universities.