The Need for a Green ICT Reference Framework
Marco Aiello, Mina Alipour, Antonio Brogi, Rafael Capilla, Lidia Fuentes + 5 more
TLDR
This paper highlights the urgent need for a comprehensive Green ICT reference framework to overcome current sustainability assessment and governance issues.
Key contributions
- Highlights challenges in assessing ICT sustainability due to complexity, fragmented metrics, and unclear responsibilities.
- Argues that current metric-only approaches are insufficient for comprehensive Green ICT governance.
- Proposes a shared Green ICT reference framework to integrate sustainability across diverse contexts and lifecycle phases.
Why it matters
Current methods struggle with the complex sustainability impacts of ICT systems due to fragmented practices. This paper argues for a shared Green ICT reference framework to integrate sustainability across all layers and contexts, providing a crucial step towards effective governance.
Original Abstract
The sustainability impacts of ICT systems are difficult to assess and govern due to structural complexity, fragmented measurement practices, and unclear responsibilities across system layers. We argue that these challenges cannot be addressed solely by metrics and motivate the need for a shared Green ICT reference framework that integrates sustainability across multiple perspectives and domains, lifecycle phases, and governance contexts. We present an initial framework developed within the Informatics Europe Green ICT Working Group as a first step towards a comprehensive reference framework.
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