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ISEB Foundation Certificate in Green IT - Course outline
An understanding of the overall environmental need for an organisation to adopt a Green IT strategy including:Climate ChangeDangerous and exploitive working practicesThe effect of hazardous waste use and disposalConsumption of precious resources such as oil, gas and water
Identification of the organisation’s external drivers and opportunities for greening its IT including:PoliticalEnvironmentalSocialLegal
Identification and understanding of the organisation’s internal drivers, opportunities and benefits of adopting a Green IT strategy
Understanding of the main government policies and the goals and objectives of UK and EU legislation pertaining to Green IT
How to assess an Organisation’s business operations, IT use and products/services in terms of their energy consumption and understand the associated Primary and Secondary carbon footprint.
Understanding of product lifecycles including:Material extractionTransportManufactureUsageDisposal
How to audit and assess an organisation’s functions and processes to identify energy and carbon inefficiencies and opportunities for IT to realise energy efficiencies, and carbon reductions
Understanding the importance, risks, issues and opportunities around:Printing and recyclingEnergy efficient computingMobile and remote workingResource sharing platformsAssessment of environmental and property impactsVirtualisationPower efficiency technologyData centre rationalisationOut-sourcing opportunitiesBest Practice frameworks e.g. ITIL®
Understanding the difference between embodied emissions and those related to consumption
Understanding how to make sustainable IT procurements and how to best use and recycle/re-use/dispose of IT assets to meet external expectations and requirements by enhancing sustainability
Gaining a practical understanding of the benefits of a Green IT Action Plan
Understanding the opportunity for the organisation’s to reduce its Carbon Footprint by investing in IT growth and the concept of Silicon Trading
Understanding the concept of ‘Green Wash’ and how it can be overcome
Understanding how to create and implement a joined-up Green IT strategy
The importance of aligning the Green IT strategy to an organisation’s environmental and sustainability policy
The roles and responsibilities associated with Green IT including:The Green IT ChampionThe Procurement ManagerThe Sustainability Officer
Finance and Cost Benefit Analysis including:End to end costing (lifecycle approach)TCO (total cost of ownership) and equipment refreshCalculating the payoff period of investments in Green IT
Understanding how to manage external relationships and stakeholder expectations
Understanding how to manage and change staff behaviours towards adopting greener ways of working
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