What IS Can Do for Environmental Sustainability: A Report from CAiSE’11 Panel on Green and Sustainable IS

The panel on Green and Sustainable Information Systems at the 21st International Conference on Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’11), held in London in June 2011, was held to discuss issues in Environmental Sustainability and Information Systems within the Information Systems Engineering resear...

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Published in:Communications of the Association for Information Systems 2012, Vol.30, p.18
Main Authors: Pernici, Barbara, Aiello, Marco, vom Brocke, Jan, Donnellan, Brian, Gelenbe, Erol, Kretsis, Mike
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Data centers
Engineering research
Information systems
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Systems engineering
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Summary:The panel on Green and Sustainable Information Systems at the 21st International Conference on Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’11), held in London in June 2011, was held to discuss issues in Environmental Sustainability and Information Systems within the Information Systems Engineering research community. This panel report describes the panelists’ views on using information systems for improving sustainability and on improving the energy efficiency of the data centres on which information systems are based. The current topics of research, possible contributions of the IS community, and future directions are discussed.
ISSN:1529-3181
1529-3181
DOI:10.17705/1CAIS.03018