The role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in causing and resolving environmental and sustainability issues has been attracting policy makers' and consultants' interests but remains a less researched topic. Usually coined as "Green IT", each stage of the IT resources lifecycle from manufacturing to usage and disposal poses environmental concerns such as power consumption, greenhouse gas emission and land and water contamination. Beside environmental sustainability. Greening IT has been touted to offer opportunities for reducing the total cost of IT operations.
The potential of technology to create sustainable business and society is wiciely accepted (Olson, 2008; Gonzalez, 2005, Hart 1997). Sustainability refers to meeting the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs (Hart, 1997). Environment is one of the three pillars of sustainability. The other two are community and economy Sustainability has strategic implications for business in regard to production economies, cost competitiveness, investment decisions and asset valuation (Enkvist et al., 2007). Lately, the role of information technology (IT) in causing and resolving sustainability issues (usually referred to as Green IT) is attracting the interest of IT managers and policy makers.
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