The Evolution of Green ICT Practice: UK Higher Education Institutions Case Study

Abstract

Green ICT is understood as an initiative to encourage stakeholders engaged in ICT activities to address environmental problems and find solutions to them. The UK is one of the first countries to focus on Green ICT inform of governmental strategies and policies. The UK public sector, including UK HEIs, is under pressure to implement Green ICT. Although the UK government encourages HEIs to work on Green ICT, there has not been a comprehensive review of existing Green ICT policies and strategies devised by UKHEIs. This paper first reviews the concepts of Green ICT, and presents a framework to analyse Green ICT strategy, practice, and measurement in UK HEIs. This is followed by the analysis of evolution of Green ICT practices in UK HEIs based on web-based data collection in 2009 and 2011.